About Thomas Roerden

Workers’ Compensation and Social Security Disability have been the core of Tom’s legal practice for the past twenty years. A native of Long Island, Tom attended Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1983. He then moved to Syracuse to attend Syracuse University College of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor degree in 1986. Tom has lived and worked in the Syracuse area for most of the past thirty years, with a few years spent in Rochester honing his new york state workers’ compensation and social security disability (SSD) skills.

In the early 1990s, while Tom was working as a real estate attorney, he attempted to lift a heavy box of old legal files at work, and suffered a severely herniated disc in his lower back. This injury required urgent surgery to remove the ruptured disc fragment. That was the easy part. The hard part was yet to come–fighting the workers’ compensation insurance company to get the surgery paid for and get benefits for a few weeks of lost time.