About LexMed

Why we built LexMed

A letter from our founder.

I didn’t start LexMed because I wanted to build software. I started it because the software I needed as a disability attorney didn’t exist.

I’m a Delta kid— eastern Arkansas, cotton fields, flat land outside Memphis — the son of a trial attorney and a schoolteacher. My earliest memory of the law is my dad in the living room at night with a dictaphone, working cases long after I was supposed to be asleep. I was probably always going to end up doing this.

After law school, I landed in a high-volume Social Security disability practice handling 200 to 300 cases a year and driving 40,000 miles across the region. That work taught me something most people outside this practice never see: disability law is brutally hard because it demands three kinds of expertise at once. You have to think like a lawyer, understand medicine well enough to build the record, and know vocational testimony well enough to catch the job-code fiction before it costs your client the case.

Every case came down to finding the needle in the haystack. Thousands of pages of medical records. A vocational expert ready to say your client can still work as a nut sorter or surveillance system monitor — jobs pulled from an outdated database that barely reflects the real economy. And somewhere in those 2,000 pages is the MRI, exam finding, reflex test, or functional limitation that changes the outcome. The problem was never knowing what to look for. The problem was having the hours to look. The work that wins cases — the pre-hearing brief, the preserved appeal issue, the cross-examination plan, the medical theory of the case — takes time most disability attorneys simply do not have. So briefs get skipped. Appeals get phoned in. Issues get missed. Not because the lawyer does not care, but because the system leaves no room to do the work the right way.

LexMed exists to give attorneys that room back. It does not think for the lawyer. It handles the pattern-recognition work that should never have required hours of manual hunting in the first place: the listing argument buried on page 847, the VE job code that does not match, the ALJ error that needs to be preserved. That frees the attorney to do the work that actually requires judgment — strategy, advocacy, cross-examination, and the human understanding of the client’s story. Every case gets the analysis. Every appeal gets the argument. Every claimant gets the advocacy their file deserved from the beginning. LexMed was born out of frustration with a practice I cared too much about to keep doing halfway. Too many cases where I knew the right argument and could not find the hours to make it. Too many claimants who deserved a better version of me than they got. I built LexMed because I could not stand practicing that way anymore.