View from the Bench I: DC Magistrate (Presented by National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives)

David T. Schultz | District of Minnesota

Before becoming a United States Magistrate Judge, David Schultz was a trial lawyer and partner with Maslon, LLC. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Carleton College and his law degree from Stanford. As a lawyer, Judge Schultz tried dozens of cases to verdict in state and federal courts all over the country. He is certified as a Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Judge Schultz also devoted hundreds of hours to pro bono representation, including representing death row inmates, seeking and obtaining exonerations of the wrongfully convicted, and helping to secure justice for the families of murder victims in the United States and abroad. In 2002, Judge Schultz traveled to Kosovo as a delegate of the ABA’s Central and Eastern European Law Institute. There he helped create the criminal law bench book for the re-constituted Kosovo judiciary. He was appointed to the bench on February 7, 2017. claimants.

I. Standards of Review: Substantial Evidence vs. Substantial Evidence on the Record as a Whole | 9:00am – 9:20am

II. Issues That Matter—and Don’t—in District Court Social Security Appeals | 9:20am – 9:40am

III. Persuasive Briefing and the Impact of Brian T.D. v. Kijakazi | 9:40am – 10:00am