Craig Polhemus, Esq.

Practice Areas

• Personal Injury
• Social Security Disability
• Veterans Benefits
• Medical Malpractice

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, Juris Doctor Degree, 1977
• Princeton University, B.A., Cum Laude, 1974
• Craig Polhemus was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal

Bar Admissions

• New York – 1978
• Florida – 2011

Professional Achievements & Memberships

• Board Certified Social Security Attorney Certified by National Board of Trial Advocacy

Relevant Experience

• Counsel and Staff Director, U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse
• Primary author of PL 96-180 and 96-181, reauthorizing and reforming programs of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism and National Institute on Drug Abuse
• General Counsel, New York State Office for the Aging
• Directed statewide legal services program for older New Yorkers
• Wrote numerous New York State laws affecting the elderly
• Economist, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
• Wrote monthly column and annual summaries of “Significant Decisions in Labor Cases” for the Monthly Labor Review
• Author, “Labor Relations”, Dow Jones-Irwin Business Almanac, 1977 and 1978
• Executive Director, American Accounting Association
• Executive Director, Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA)
• Wrote column on legal ethics for the Sarasota County Bar Association newsletter

Presentations & Lectures

• New Orleans, LA 2019 “Bypassing the Administrative Agency”
• Washington DC, 2017 “The Double-Edged Disabilities: Drug and Alcohol Abuse”