Gateway Legal Services
Gateway Legal Services is a nonprofit, self-supporting legal-aid clinic based in downtown Saint Louis, Missouri. It spun off from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, a similar organization, in 1997 to focus on Social Security law. Gateway primarily handles Social Security Disability (DIB) claims, Supplemental Security Income claims and some consumer-law cases. The firm has more than 1,000 open cases at any one time.
Leadership
Gateway's executive director is Michael Ferry, a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives.
External links
Ferry, Michael. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 6, 2000. "Acquiring Social Security disability benefits can be a very long and exhausting process". Last visited Aug. 21, 2009.
Ferry, Michael. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, July 1, 2002. "Social Security uses five steps to determine eligibility for disability benefits". Last visited Aug. 21, 2009.
St. Louis Daily Record-St. Louis Countian, Dec. 11, 2008. "St. Louis County Circuit Court awards homeowner consent judgment against predatory mortgage broker". Last visited Aug. 21, 2009.