The Mid-Year Checkpoint: What's Working in Disability Firm Growth Right Now
In January, we brought together three operators to answer the question every disability firm owner was asking: what is actually working in 2026? 153 firms registered.
Eight months later, the ground has shifted. AI summaries now sit between claimants and your website. Claimants expect a mobile-first experience from the first click. SSA operations keep straining firm workflows. And AI has moved from "should we try this" to "which parts of our practice does it actually run."
This session is the mid-year checkpoint. Nathan Chapman of Firmidable, James Vancel of Benny, and Nikhil Pai of Chronicle each see hundreds of disability firms from a different vantage point: client acquisition, claimant intake, and case operations. In 60 minutes they cover what changed in the first half of 2026, what is working right now, and what to put in place before 2027.
This session is part of Chronicle's Advancing Technology in Disability Law series.
Why Attend:
Find out which of your assumptions from January are already stale
See where marketing budget is moving as AI reshapes search
Understand where firms lose claimants between "I need help" and a signed retainer
Learn where AI has earned a permanent place in disability practice, and where expectations still outpace reality
Leave with the two or three moves your firm should make before January
What You'll Learn:
How claimants find and choose a disability firm now that AI summaries sit above the search results
What firms are still spending on in 2026 that has quietly stopped working
Where the application and form burden actually sits in a growing firm, and what changes when it is systematized instead of staffed
What overlapping Chronicle and Benny customers have seen since the integration launched in March
What to expect from SSA for the rest of the year, and how to build around it
The one operational investment to make before January 2027
Who Should Attend:
Firm owners and managing partners
Operations and intake leads
Marketing and business development leads
Anyone responsible for how a disability practice grows next year
Cannot make it live? Register anyway and we will send you the recording.
Speakers
Nathan Chapman: President, Firmidable
Nathan is a 35+ year pioneer in law firm marketing who has won professional awards for building on a foundation of classic marketing techniques while relentlessly pursuing the next wave of how to grow a practice.
James Vancel: Co-Founder, Benny
James has built Benny into the leading mobile-first platform for SSDI and SSI applications, helping disability advocates scale their caseload without adding staff.
Nikhil Pai: Founder, Chronicle
Nikhil leads the team behind Chronicle, the platform helping SSD firms automate case tracking, ERE monitoring, and document workflows. Chronicle now monitors more than 235,000 cases and 11.7 million SSA documents across 2,800+ disability professionals.
Will Yang: Head of Growth, Chronicle (moderator)
Will builds Chronicle's practitioner community by hosting events, conversations, and resources that help SSD attorneys navigate the business side of running a disability firm.