Fort Payne, AL

Abbey Clarkson

Abbey Clarkson is an Alabama Social Security Disability lawyer who has helped thousands of people win disability benefits. She has more than 13 years of experience as an Alabama benefits attorney and more than 16 years practicing law overall. She founded Clarkson Pennington Law to help hardworking people find financial relief. She also helps with funeral home negligence and personal injury/civil litigation. She works with her sisters Allison Humphrey and Amber Holkem, who are paralegals.

Robert T. Ray

Robert T. Ray grew up in Virginia and followed his parents to north Alabama after graduating from Vermont Law School. He also studied engineering at Virginia Tech before transferring to George Mason University. He began his legal career representing citizens of DeKalb County and surrounding areas, and spent a year in Atlanta working in medical malpractice litigation before opening his current law practice. A graduate of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College (1997) and the Criminal Defense College (2000), Robert enjoys trial work and believes in winning justice for his clients by caring for them and conveying that attitude to the jury. He has over two decades of experience.

John Pennington

John Pennington is an Alabama disability lawyer since the 1990s, helping thousands of people with Social Security Disability and long-term disability insurance benefits. He was a nurse before becoming a lawyer, giving him a strong medical background. He has extensive experience with appeals of Social Security Disability denials and joined with Abbey Clarkson in 2024 to form Clarkson Pennington Law.