Michael Rake

About Michael

Mike Rake is an experienced lawyer who helps people in Ohio with their Social Security Disability and veterans’ disability claims. With about 20 years in the legal profession, Mike has handled more than 3,000 hearings for people’s appeals of Social Security Disability denials, as well as multiple claims for military veterans seeking the fullest possible benefits through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability program. He has appealed hundreds of Social Security Disability cases to the federal court level and successfully argued many cases in the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. Mike has lectured on the topic of disability law at the University of Dayton School of Law and for the National Business Institute. He won the Lloyd O’Hara Public Interest Law Award in 2019 and was named a “Litigator of the Year” by the American Institute of Trial Lawyers in 2021. He is a partner at Horenstein, Nicholson & Blumenthal (HNB).

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Colleagues at HORENSTEIN, NICHOLSON & BLUMENTHAL

Gary Blumenthal

Of Counsel Disability Lawyer at HNB Law

T. Tod Mollaun

Injury Lawyer

L. Frederick Sommer III

Injury Lawyer and Partner at HNB

Elizabeth Savino

Disability Lawyer at HNB

C.A. New

Disability Lawyer at HNB

Robert Walter

Disability Lawyer and Partner at HNB