April 22, 2024 • 17 mins
Attorney David Dick has been practing law for more than 15 years.
His company, David M Dick L.P.A., helps clients all across the state of Ohio and beyond. The company is based out of Mansfield and is located at 21 N Walnut Street in downtown Mansfield.
David was born in Mansfield, attended Crestview High School and went to college at Ohio Dominican University. Dick also, operates a cattle farm just north of town. Learn more about David and his company on the podcast.
His company, David M Dick L.P.A., helps clients all across the state of Ohio and beyond. The company is based out of Mansfield and is located at 21 N Walnut Street in downtown Mansfield.
David was born in Mansfield, attended Crestview High School and went to college at Ohio Dominican University. Dick also, operates a cattle farm just north of town. Learn more about David and his company on the podcast.
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The CEO you should know, broughtto you by Roby Foster Miller Eric Insurance.
This week's CEO Attorney David Dick.David M. Dick, LPA.
Good morning, nice to see you, Good morning, Thank you for having
me. Absolutely, I've heard thename, but haven't had a chance to
meet you face to face. Sowelcome in. And I mentioned I'm excited
(00:23):
to learn about you. So aswe begin, we hear attorney tell us
kind of what you specialize in.In a little bit about you. So,
my main area of focus is disabilitylaw, social security, disability,
supplemental security income. I've been practicingthis area law for quite a few years
now, and we help out many, many people throughout the state of Ohio
(00:44):
and even actually some of the surroundingstates. All right, so as we
jump in and learn about you,it's not just local here in Richland County.
I'm sure you do help local people, but you stretch across the state
and beyond them. Yes. Absolutely. We actually used to have a bunch
of multi offices in Dayton, Lioma. We practice in different cities, and
then COVID hit and the courts kindof changed how they were going to do
(01:07):
things and we got rid of thosebuildings, which was cost effective, and
we still represent people throughout Ohio,a couple of surrounding states, but mainly
throughout Ohio. There is most ofour clients come from the Richland, Crawford,
Morrow, Ashland County area, butwe have lots of clients from Lioma,
Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, everywhere. All Right, terrific learning this
morning about attorney David Dick. Now, you mentioned you've been doing this for
(01:32):
quite a while. Can you ballparkat how long have you been practicing law.
That's a good question. I gotsworn in in eight and really nine
was kind of my first full year, so it's kind of an interesting story.
I don't know if you've ever seenthe movie Point Break. The original
one was Cannon Reeves and Patrick Swayze. So I thought I wanted to be
(01:53):
an FBI agent when I was inhigh school based off of that movie.
And I was a pretty good studentin high schoo school. But when I
got to college, I went toHigh Dominican University, and I honestly,
I mainly went there to play soccer. I got a little bit of scholarship
money and I played soccer at highDominican and I got pretty big into school
(02:13):
there actually, and my grades evenwere hiring than what they were in high
school. And at that point Irealized, I want to be an FBI
agent, I probably need to goto law school. And I also did
an internship up in Washington, dC. And you know, did a
lot of stuff, was the politicalscience things of that nature. But ultimately
I went to law school. Andwhen I was in law school, they
(02:35):
recommended because there's so many attorneys thatpractice for a long time, it's an
advantage of being an attorney. Youcan practice part time. One you're older
and there's really kind of a certainextent no expiration, that you can kind
of go as long as you reallywant to. But they recommended that you
go to school and you start workingfor an attorney. So, you know,
you learned the theory of law atlaw school, but the practicality of
(02:58):
how business works and how you dealwith climed clients and ins and outs of
the courts, you need to beworking somewhere. So that's what I decided
to do, and I went toschool. On my last two years of
law school, I went to schoolon Thursday. I went I drove up
to Michigan. I went Friday,Saturday, Sunday, drove back and I
worked for now Judge Badnell. Atthe time, he was an attorney and
(03:19):
I worked for him about four daysa week, went to school on the
weekends, and did that for abouttwo years, and then passed the bar
and I started working for him.After a couple of years, I became
a partner. Our former name wasbad Noel and Dick Company, LPA.
And then obviously, once Judge Badnelbecame judges year, I bought out the
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company. It's now David M.Dick Company, LPA. What's interesting is
so when I first started as alaw clerk, we probably had I'm going
to guess twenty to fifty clients thatwere social Security disability. So Attorney bad
Now we had some other attorneys workingfor us at that time. We're working
for him at that time focused oncriminal municipal court law. He also did
(04:00):
domestic relations, and he did dosome social security disability long but like I
said, we didn't have a lotof clients, and he kind of I
think he kind of envisioned me takingthis practice over, this area of the
law over. So as soon asI got out of laws gooing past the
bar. We started with a disabilitylaw and then I kind of changed the
system and we went from you know, twenty or thirty clients twenty to fifty
(04:25):
clients to signing up twenty to thirtyclients a month. And we really have
perfected this system and we help alot of people. And that's why we're
able to practice statewide because we've gota good system in place. I've been
in front of I don't know,probably hundreds of different judges. What most
people don't realize with Social Security disability, so most Americans are working hard and
(04:49):
they're paying into Social Security disability,and then they get something happens. They
get hurt and it could be relatedto work, a worker's complic case,
but maybe they just have a backsurgery, or they developed they had a
stroke, something along those lines.So then they file for Social Security disability
and that takes roughly the initial leveltakes three to eight months on average,
(05:10):
depending on their age. Is apretty high denial rate at the initial level.
So they get denied and then theywould my advice would be to call
me and allow me to represent you. But what most people don't realize is
that in disability law, there's noupfront costs, there's no consultation fees.
I have to win. There hasto be money owed back to you.
(05:30):
And then for most clients, Ican receive twenty five percent or seventy two
hundred dollars, whichever one is smaller. So I don't even get a third.
It's it's twenty five percent or seventytwo hundred and if we win and
there's no money owed back to them, and I've worked for free. If
I lose, I've worked for free. But there's no out of pocket costs
for medical records, things of thatnature. And there's five different levels of
social security. Most people it's kindof an act of attrition. You know,
(05:54):
they get denied, they get discouraged. But we found that the sooner
you can call me and get meinvolved better. The outcome typically is there's
no guarantee on any of this stuff. But what we do guarantee is we're
gonna work as hard as we possiblycan and put people in a position to
win. And what's so great aboutthis area of the law is how many
different type of people you can help. I've helped babies, toddlers, I've
(06:15):
helped attorneys. I've won doctors cases, I've won business owners. It's just
a wide wide spectrum of different typeof clientele you're gonna get, and a
lot of them have truly disabling conditions, and was the right guidance and the
help they need to get to wherethey're going. We can really put them
in a position to hopefully win theircase at some point, whether it be
(06:39):
at the initial reconsideration and the hearinglevel. That's kind of the majority of
my day. I do do alittle bit of personal injury work, typically
car accidents that are clear cut negligencethings of that nature. I had that
kind of fun how that started too, because we have so many disability clients
when they were going to doctor's appointments, Unfortunately, a couple of them were
getting hit driving to doctor's appointments,and that's kind of how that started,
(07:00):
and we've been incredibly successful at thatas well. All Right, we are
learning this morning all about this week'sCEO. You should know you just heard
the voice there of Attorney David Dick, David M. Dick, LPA,
and you mentioned you help people allacross the state, even beyond the state
of Ohio. But the office islocated in Mansfield correct correct twenty one North
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Walnut Street, manswel, Ohio fourfour nine oh two. So we are
basically downtown Mansfield right beside. Ithink it's called Chase Tower now used to
be Chase Bank. It's a fourstory brick building, used to be the
old Martin Hardware factory building. Allright. A website is Attorney Daviddick dot
com and the phone number four onenine five two five zero eight zero zero
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is we learn about you. Tellus a bit about your staff. I
know you have to have great peopleworking for you, right I do.
I'm very, very fortunate. Wehave four dedicated, hard working paralegals that
each of them kind of have theirown role in terms of what they're doing
along the disability process, and theydo a phenomenal job. All right,
Well, let's step away from workand find out a bit more about you.
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You gave a little away early,but there's a lot more to learn.
Let's step back to the very beginningand let's have you tell us where
was David Dick born Mansfield? AllRight? I always kid was Judge Badenow
that dim Mansfield's favorite son. BecauseI love this area. I think it's
great. I love the people here. I've lived here all my life.
Essentially, we live about fifteen milesnorth of Mansfield and we have a cattle
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farm and do all sorts of funstuff. All right, Well we find
out born in Mansfield. Next,tell us where'd you go to high school?
Cresview? Right? A cougar?I am a cougar, all right?
Did not know that? Okay?After high school? Tell us about
you know, the decision when youtalked about you wanted to be an FBI
agent, things like that. Sokind of growing up did you always know
(08:56):
this? Did you get in highschool? I mean, how did it
work in terms of when you knewwhat you wanted to do? Yeah?
So, once I got into lawschool and I started working for Judge bad
Noo at that time, Attorney badNo Obviously, I really liked the disability
aspect, the disability law that Iwas law clerking in and now i'm obviously
practicing in. And I also fellin love with my wife, Marcy at
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that time. And you know,if you're an FBI agent, my understanding
is you don't get the practice anarea living. They move you. So
I decided that I think the bestroute for you to be an attorney,
and I've been blessed incredibly successful withwhat we're doing. It also allows me
the opportunity to operate a cattle farmessentially, so I've got some flexibility with
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that schedule depending on my days,and that helps as well. All Right,
well, I don't want to missanything if somebody missed it earlier.
He did mention, but I'll askthe question again. Tell people where he
went to college. I went tocollege out how Dominican University. All right,
so we mentioned you're an attorney,but also you me operating a cattle
(10:01):
farm. So I'm sure that isjust a super super busy day sometimes or
most days. Maybe. Yeah,my days, I always tease people because
I don't know, if you've everseen the movie Groundhog Day was Bill Murray.
So my days are kind of likethat. It's almost consistent. Every
day. I start my mornings atthe farm, We go to work,
We work really hard to help asmany people as we can. Then after
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I get done with work, whichdepends on today what time I'm leaving,
then it's usually back to the farmto handle these cows and work with that.
Then on top of that, I'malso on the Livestock Committee, and
I'm a senior fairboard or board ofdirectors for the Richmond count Agricultural Society,
so that also requires some time andwe help a lot of people's community with
(10:45):
that program as well. All Right, I know they're building a new show
arena out there. Saw cranes andthings work and so a lot of excitement
out there. Yeah, I wasactually the head or the lead I the
proper title is for that program.So that was a long, long,
long journey. And why I'm onhere to thank all our donors for this
project. I want to thank ourcommissioners for coming through. At the end,
I want to give a particular thanksto Dave Grower who has continues to
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work out there and helping out withSADENA. And Adena has been great to
work with. We've had so muchsupport and we're really hopeful that's going to
be up and running by this year'sfair. All Right, terrific to hear
this morning from this week's CEO.You should know the voice you hear again
is David Dick. That is AttorneyDavid Dick, David M. Dick,
LPA, as he is visiting withus here this morning. All Right,
(11:30):
So I heard you say wife,But tell us a bit more about David
Dick and the family. So mywife, Marci Dick, I have I
call them my children, but they'retechnically my step children, Taylor, Alexis,
and Michael. And Alexis has twochildren, so I have two granddaughters
on her side, and then Taylorhas one child, and I'm Guessie in
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a second is going to be comingon the way. And her husband,
Dominic Denia has been incredibly helpful.Taylor and Dominic and my wife are the
main ones that help operate the farmwith me, and they do a great
job and help out a lot.There's a lot of work to be done,
especially when you're calving, or breeding, or selling or getting cattle ready
for shows, all sorts of stuff. There a different time of the year
that's busier for you on the farm, Yes, yes, there is.
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So what's interesting about how because yougot to coordinate this with your law practice,
right, So with Social Security law, they actually they take my schedule
months in advance, so I thinkthey're scheduled me right now for September.
So we provide notice of availability datesand when we're caving, and that's usually
the busiest season, and we havetypically at set times, but January through
(12:41):
april's typical or normal cabin season,and you're up all hours of the night,
and it's a lot of work,but it's very rewarding. Awesome,
great again to hear and learn theentire story of David M. Dick LPA
this morning again attorney at law whois joining us. So my next question
would be we find out where you'refrom, school, family, What do
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you do when you are not working? I don't know from you know listening
to you if you have any sparetime, but do you have any hobbies
when you have any time away fromwork? What do you like to do?
That's a good question. We dohave a camper down in Mohican and
we're at river and Campground, andwe try to get down there as much
as we can, spend some weekendsdown there, spend some nights down there
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on the nice nights, but usuallymy days are consumed with the law practice
and the farm, and I tryto spend as much time as I can
with family and friends. But yourun a tight schedule. You've got to
be very organized to do what Ido. Well, let's get back to
work. Just a couple more quickquestions before it lets you go. It's
been a great conversation learning about AttorneyDavid Dick. So I was on your
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website and I threw it out earlierAttorney Davidick dot com. I would assume
they have a question that they wantto get more information, they want to
reach out, that they could startthere. It looks like you have a
lot of great information, but let'stalk about how they get what's the best
way to get in concent Yeah,they can message us through our website if
they choose, but I really preferpeople calling me. I have a very
high success rate of when people meetme and see how I operate, what
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my office looks like, or justhear my voice on the phone. Usually
the best bet is to call meset up a phone appointment or an in
person appointment, depending on where youlive. But we respond to emails,
messages everything. We want to helpas many people as we can, and
what's most convenient for people in need, all right, so they can talk
to them on the phone. Fourone nine five two five zero eight zero
zero. You can find all thisinformation. It's posted again on his website.
(14:33):
Attorney Daviddick dot com. Last thingfor me anything. You kind of
want to leave the listener with thatwhat they need to know about, you
know, you as an attorney thosekind of things. And you mentioned right
there you know very you know,high success rate. But what what should
people know about your practice? Youknow, I think the biggest thing people
should know is with disability law,there's no attorney fees until I win your
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case and you have to be owedback money. There's no consultation fees,
there's no upfront colls, there's noout of pocket costs, and if I
lose, they get nothing. AndI always tell people I call it what's
called Tom Brady syndrome, where TomBrady was always mentally creates things to drive
him that he wasn't good enough forwhatever the case may be. And I
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would certainly argue he's probably the greatestquarterback of all time. I one percent
have that syndrome. I am relentless. I am constantly doing whatever I can
to create a system that helps people. I want to help as many people
as I can. And I reallyam passionate about this area of the law
and this practice. And I'm alsopassionate about cattle. I'm also passionate about
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the fair grounds and helping people.And I think if you've got that mindset,
if you got the right system inplace, you got the right staff
in place, you've got good familysupport, the sky's de limit. Well,
it sounds like you really enjoy whatyou do in terms of an attorney.
You mentioned you know, cattle andthose kind of things, but it
sounds like you really enjoy the areaand what you do. I do.
I love it, and I'm veryfortunate and I'm fortunate that Judge Bade kind
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of opened the door for me toget my foot started back in two thousand
and eight. And we've really createda great system that helps a lot of
people. And it's just like Isaid. Although I'd say probably thirty percent
of our clients, thirty to fortypercent come from the local area, we
were statewide. We help people everywhere. And that's the advantage of federal administrative
law. You know, it's thesame type of law, different judges,
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And when you have an attorney thatpractices in so many different areas, you're
likely to see a lot of differentjudges. You've likely had that judge before.
And although the law is the same, I always tell people good attorneys
know the law. Great attorneys knowthe judge. Each judge may be looking
for something a little bit different inthose medical records, and you've got to
figure the average client probably has anywherefrom five hundred to three thousand pages of
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medical records. I read every oneof those pages of medical records. So
we're prepared. We write good briefs, we're ready to go. We've got
a great system. We help alot of people. Allantastic stick to learn
all about this week's CEO. Youshould know that his attorney, David Dick
David M. Dick, LPA.Well, it was great to learn the
story. Congratulations on all your successand thanks so much for being with us
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as Hey, I really appreciate youhaving me. It's been fun. It's
been nice to get to know you. I think you should be on the
CEO. We need to know.It'd be nice to get to know your
story. So I appreciate your timetoday. David M. Dick LPA,
the CEO you should know rit abio c a photo and here the extended
interview at WMA n FM dot com. Leading means having a vision and sharing
(17:36):
it with others. I'm John Robyof RFI Insurance. We're excited to bring
you this program featuring CEOs from ourarea who will share the thoughts and what
it means to work and live innorth central Ohio.
The CEO you should know, broughtto you by Roby Foster Miller Eric Insurance.
This week's CEO Attorney David Dick.David M. Dick, LPA.
Good morning, nice to see you, Good morning, Thank you for having
me. Absolutely, I've heard thename, but haven't had a chance to
meet you face to face. Sowelcome in. And I mentioned I'm excited
(00:23):
to learn about you. So aswe begin, we hear attorney tell us
kind of what you specialize in.In a little bit about you. So,
my main area of focus is disabilitylaw, social security, disability,
supplemental security income. I've been practicingthis area law for quite a few years
now, and we help out many, many people throughout the state of Ohio
(00:44):
and even actually some of the surroundingstates. All right, so as we
jump in and learn about you,it's not just local here in Richland County.
I'm sure you do help local people, but you stretch across the state
and beyond them. Yes. Absolutely. We actually used to have a bunch
of multi offices in Dayton, Lioma. We practice in different cities, and
then COVID hit and the courts kindof changed how they were going to do
(01:07):
things and we got rid of thosebuildings, which was cost effective, and
we still represent people throughout Ohio,a couple of surrounding states, but mainly
throughout Ohio. There is most ofour clients come from the Richland, Crawford,
Morrow, Ashland County area, butwe have lots of clients from Lioma,
Dayton, Columbus, Cleveland, everywhere. All Right, terrific learning this
morning about attorney David Dick. Now, you mentioned you've been doing this for
(01:32):
quite a while. Can you ballparkat how long have you been practicing law.
That's a good question. I gotsworn in in eight and really nine
was kind of my first full year, so it's kind of an interesting story.
I don't know if you've ever seenthe movie Point Break. The original
one was Cannon Reeves and Patrick Swayze. So I thought I wanted to be
(01:53):
an FBI agent when I was inhigh school based off of that movie.
And I was a pretty good studentin high schoo school. But when I
got to college, I went toHigh Dominican University, and I honestly,
I mainly went there to play soccer. I got a little bit of scholarship
money and I played soccer at highDominican and I got pretty big into school
(02:13):
there actually, and my grades evenwere hiring than what they were in high
school. And at that point Irealized, I want to be an FBI
agent, I probably need to goto law school. And I also did
an internship up in Washington, dC. And you know, did a
lot of stuff, was the politicalscience things of that nature. But ultimately
I went to law school. Andwhen I was in law school, they
(02:35):
recommended because there's so many attorneys thatpractice for a long time, it's an
advantage of being an attorney. Youcan practice part time. One you're older
and there's really kind of a certainextent no expiration, that you can kind
of go as long as you reallywant to. But they recommended that you
go to school and you start workingfor an attorney. So, you know,
you learned the theory of law atlaw school, but the practicality of
(02:58):
how business works and how you dealwith climed clients and ins and outs of
the courts, you need to beworking somewhere. So that's what I decided
to do, and I went toschool. On my last two years of
law school, I went to schoolon Thursday. I went I drove up
to Michigan. I went Friday,Saturday, Sunday, drove back and I
worked for now Judge Badnell. Atthe time, he was an attorney and
(03:19):
I worked for him about four daysa week, went to school on the
weekends, and did that for abouttwo years, and then passed the bar
and I started working for him.After a couple of years, I became
a partner. Our former name wasbad Noel and Dick Company, LPA.
And then obviously, once Judge Badnelbecame judges year, I bought out the
(03:40):
company. It's now David M.Dick Company, LPA. What's interesting is
so when I first started as alaw clerk, we probably had I'm going
to guess twenty to fifty clients thatwere social Security disability. So Attorney bad
Now we had some other attorneys workingfor us at that time. We're working
for him at that time focused oncriminal municipal court law. He also did
(04:00):
domestic relations, and he did dosome social security disability long but like I
said, we didn't have a lotof clients, and he kind of I
think he kind of envisioned me takingthis practice over, this area of the
law over. So as soon asI got out of laws gooing past the
bar. We started with a disabilitylaw and then I kind of changed the
system and we went from you know, twenty or thirty clients twenty to fifty
(04:25):
clients to signing up twenty to thirtyclients a month. And we really have
perfected this system and we help alot of people. And that's why we're
able to practice statewide because we've gota good system in place. I've been
in front of I don't know,probably hundreds of different judges. What most
people don't realize with Social Security disability, so most Americans are working hard and
(04:49):
they're paying into Social Security disability,and then they get something happens. They
get hurt and it could be relatedto work, a worker's complic case,
but maybe they just have a backsurgery, or they developed they had a
stroke, something along those lines.So then they file for Social Security disability
and that takes roughly the initial leveltakes three to eight months on average,
(05:10):
depending on their age. Is apretty high denial rate at the initial level.
So they get denied and then theywould my advice would be to call
me and allow me to represent you. But what most people don't realize is
that in disability law, there's noupfront costs, there's no consultation fees.
I have to win. There hasto be money owed back to you.
(05:30):
And then for most clients, Ican receive twenty five percent or seventy two
hundred dollars, whichever one is smaller. So I don't even get a third.
It's it's twenty five percent or seventytwo hundred and if we win and
there's no money owed back to them, and I've worked for free. If
I lose, I've worked for free. But there's no out of pocket costs
for medical records, things of thatnature. And there's five different levels of
social security. Most people it's kindof an act of attrition. You know,
(05:54):
they get denied, they get discouraged. But we found that the sooner
you can call me and get meinvolved better. The outcome typically is there's
no guarantee on any of this stuff. But what we do guarantee is we're
gonna work as hard as we possiblycan and put people in a position to
win. And what's so great aboutthis area of the law is how many
different type of people you can help. I've helped babies, toddlers, I've
(06:15):
helped attorneys. I've won doctors cases, I've won business owners. It's just
a wide wide spectrum of different typeof clientele you're gonna get, and a
lot of them have truly disabling conditions, and was the right guidance and the
help they need to get to wherethey're going. We can really put them
in a position to hopefully win theircase at some point, whether it be
(06:39):
at the initial reconsideration and the hearinglevel. That's kind of the majority of
my day. I do do alittle bit of personal injury work, typically
car accidents that are clear cut negligencethings of that nature. I had that
kind of fun how that started too, because we have so many disability clients
when they were going to doctor's appointments, Unfortunately, a couple of them were
getting hit driving to doctor's appointments,and that's kind of how that started,
(07:00):
and we've been incredibly successful at thatas well. All Right, we are
learning this morning all about this week'sCEO. You should know you just heard
the voice there of Attorney David Dick, David M. Dick, LPA,
and you mentioned you help people allacross the state, even beyond the state
of Ohio. But the office islocated in Mansfield correct correct twenty one North
(07:23):
Walnut Street, manswel, Ohio fourfour nine oh two. So we are
basically downtown Mansfield right beside. Ithink it's called Chase Tower now used to
be Chase Bank. It's a fourstory brick building, used to be the
old Martin Hardware factory building. Allright. A website is Attorney Daviddick dot
com and the phone number four onenine five two five zero eight zero zero
(07:46):
is we learn about you. Tellus a bit about your staff. I
know you have to have great peopleworking for you, right I do.
I'm very, very fortunate. Wehave four dedicated, hard working paralegals that
each of them kind of have theirown role in terms of what they're doing
along the disability process, and theydo a phenomenal job. All right,
Well, let's step away from workand find out a bit more about you.
(08:09):
You gave a little away early,but there's a lot more to learn.
Let's step back to the very beginningand let's have you tell us where
was David Dick born Mansfield? AllRight? I always kid was Judge Badenow
that dim Mansfield's favorite son. BecauseI love this area. I think it's
great. I love the people here. I've lived here all my life.
Essentially, we live about fifteen milesnorth of Mansfield and we have a cattle
(08:33):
farm and do all sorts of funstuff. All right, Well we find
out born in Mansfield. Next,tell us where'd you go to high school?
Cresview? Right? A cougar?I am a cougar, all right?
Did not know that? Okay?After high school? Tell us about
you know, the decision when youtalked about you wanted to be an FBI
agent, things like that. Sokind of growing up did you always know
(08:56):
this? Did you get in highschool? I mean, how did it
work in terms of when you knewwhat you wanted to do? Yeah?
So, once I got into lawschool and I started working for Judge bad
Noo at that time, Attorney badNo Obviously, I really liked the disability
aspect, the disability law that Iwas law clerking in and now i'm obviously
practicing in. And I also fellin love with my wife, Marcy at
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that time. And you know,if you're an FBI agent, my understanding
is you don't get the practice anarea living. They move you. So
I decided that I think the bestroute for you to be an attorney,
and I've been blessed incredibly successful withwhat we're doing. It also allows me
the opportunity to operate a cattle farmessentially, so I've got some flexibility with
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that schedule depending on my days,and that helps as well. All Right,
well, I don't want to missanything if somebody missed it earlier.
He did mention, but I'll askthe question again. Tell people where he
went to college. I went tocollege out how Dominican University. All right,
so we mentioned you're an attorney,but also you me operating a cattle
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farm. So I'm sure that isjust a super super busy day sometimes or
most days. Maybe. Yeah,my days, I always tease people because
I don't know, if you've everseen the movie Groundhog Day was Bill Murray.
So my days are kind of likethat. It's almost consistent. Every
day. I start my mornings atthe farm, We go to work,
We work really hard to help asmany people as we can. Then after
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I get done with work, whichdepends on today what time I'm leaving,
then it's usually back to the farmto handle these cows and work with that.
Then on top of that, I'malso on the Livestock Committee, and
I'm a senior fairboard or board ofdirectors for the Richmond count Agricultural Society,
so that also requires some time andwe help a lot of people's community with
(10:45):
that program as well. All Right, I know they're building a new show
arena out there. Saw cranes andthings work and so a lot of excitement
out there. Yeah, I wasactually the head or the lead I the
proper title is for that program.So that was a long, long,
long journey. And why I'm onhere to thank all our donors for this
project. I want to thank ourcommissioners for coming through. At the end,
I want to give a particular thanksto Dave Grower who has continues to
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work out there and helping out withSADENA. And Adena has been great to
work with. We've had so muchsupport and we're really hopeful that's going to
be up and running by this year'sfair. All Right, terrific to hear
this morning from this week's CEO.You should know the voice you hear again
is David Dick. That is AttorneyDavid Dick, David M. Dick,
LPA, as he is visiting withus here this morning. All Right,
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So I heard you say wife,But tell us a bit more about David
Dick and the family. So mywife, Marci Dick, I have I
call them my children, but they'retechnically my step children, Taylor, Alexis,
and Michael. And Alexis has twochildren, so I have two granddaughters
on her side, and then Taylorhas one child, and I'm Guessie in
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a second is going to be comingon the way. And her husband,
Dominic Denia has been incredibly helpful.Taylor and Dominic and my wife are the
main ones that help operate the farmwith me, and they do a great
job and help out a lot.There's a lot of work to be done,
especially when you're calving, or breeding, or selling or getting cattle ready
for shows, all sorts of stuff. There a different time of the year
that's busier for you on the farm, Yes, yes, there is.
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So what's interesting about how because yougot to coordinate this with your law practice,
right, So with Social Security law, they actually they take my schedule
months in advance, so I thinkthey're scheduled me right now for September.
So we provide notice of availability datesand when we're caving, and that's usually
the busiest season, and we havetypically at set times, but January through
(12:41):
april's typical or normal cabin season,and you're up all hours of the night,
and it's a lot of work,but it's very rewarding. Awesome,
great again to hear and learn theentire story of David M. Dick LPA
this morning again attorney at law whois joining us. So my next question
would be we find out where you'refrom, school, family, What do
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you do when you are not working? I don't know from you know listening
to you if you have any sparetime, but do you have any hobbies
when you have any time away fromwork? What do you like to do?
That's a good question. We dohave a camper down in Mohican and
we're at river and Campground, andwe try to get down there as much
as we can, spend some weekendsdown there, spend some nights down there
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on the nice nights, but usuallymy days are consumed with the law practice
and the farm, and I tryto spend as much time as I can
with family and friends. But yourun a tight schedule. You've got to
be very organized to do what Ido. Well, let's get back to
work. Just a couple more quickquestions before it lets you go. It's
been a great conversation learning about AttorneyDavid Dick. So I was on your
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website and I threw it out earlierAttorney Davidick dot com. I would assume
they have a question that they wantto get more information, they want to
reach out, that they could startthere. It looks like you have a
lot of great information, but let'stalk about how they get what's the best
way to get in concent Yeah,they can message us through our website if
they choose, but I really preferpeople calling me. I have a very
high success rate of when people meetme and see how I operate, what
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my office looks like, or justhear my voice on the phone. Usually
the best bet is to call meset up a phone appointment or an in
person appointment, depending on where youlive. But we respond to emails,
messages everything. We want to helpas many people as we can, and
what's most convenient for people in need, all right, so they can talk
to them on the phone. Fourone nine five two five zero eight zero
zero. You can find all thisinformation. It's posted again on his website.
(14:33):
Attorney Daviddick dot com. Last thingfor me anything. You kind of
want to leave the listener with thatwhat they need to know about, you
know, you as an attorney thosekind of things. And you mentioned right
there you know very you know,high success rate. But what what should
people know about your practice? Youknow, I think the biggest thing people
should know is with disability law,there's no attorney fees until I win your
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case and you have to be owedback money. There's no consultation fees,
there's no upfront colls, there's noout of pocket costs, and if I
lose, they get nothing. AndI always tell people I call it what's
called Tom Brady syndrome, where TomBrady was always mentally creates things to drive
him that he wasn't good enough forwhatever the case may be. And I
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would certainly argue he's probably the greatestquarterback of all time. I one percent
have that syndrome. I am relentless. I am constantly doing whatever I can
to create a system that helps people. I want to help as many people
as I can. And I reallyam passionate about this area of the law
and this practice. And I'm alsopassionate about cattle. I'm also passionate about
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the fair grounds and helping people.And I think if you've got that mindset,
if you got the right system inplace, you got the right staff
in place, you've got good familysupport, the sky's de limit. Well,
it sounds like you really enjoy whatyou do in terms of an attorney.
You mentioned you know, cattle andthose kind of things, but it
sounds like you really enjoy the areaand what you do. I do.
I love it, and I'm veryfortunate and I'm fortunate that Judge Bade kind
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of opened the door for me toget my foot started back in two thousand
and eight. And we've really createda great system that helps a lot of
people. And it's just like Isaid. Although I'd say probably thirty percent
of our clients, thirty to fortypercent come from the local area, we
were statewide. We help people everywhere. And that's the advantage of federal administrative
law. You know, it's thesame type of law, different judges,
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And when you have an attorney thatpractices in so many different areas, you're
likely to see a lot of differentjudges. You've likely had that judge before.
And although the law is the same, I always tell people good attorneys
know the law. Great attorneys knowthe judge. Each judge may be looking
for something a little bit different inthose medical records, and you've got to
figure the average client probably has anywherefrom five hundred to three thousand pages of
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medical records. I read every oneof those pages of medical records. So
we're prepared. We write good briefs, we're ready to go. We've got
a great system. We help alot of people. Allantastic stick to learn
all about this week's CEO. Youshould know that his attorney, David Dick
David M. Dick, LPA.Well, it was great to learn the
story. Congratulations on all your successand thanks so much for being with us
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as Hey, I really appreciate youhaving me. It's been fun. It's
been nice to get to know you. I think you should be on the
CEO. We need to know.It'd be nice to get to know your
story. So I appreciate your timetoday. David M. Dick LPA,
the CEO you should know rit abio c a photo and here the extended
interview at WMA n FM dot com. Leading means having a vision and sharing
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it with others. I'm John Robyof RFI Insurance. We're excited to bring
you this program featuring CEOs from ourarea who will share the thoughts and what
it means to work and live innorth central Ohio.
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