Attorney Francis M. Jackson
Social Security Disability Claims, Veterans Disability Claims, Injury & Accident Claims

Mr. Jackson has been in the active practice of law for over 30 years. He practices in the social security disability area, including appeals to the federal courts throughout New England. He also handles railroad retirement disability cases.

Mr. Jackson is one of the few lawyers in New England who actively practices before the Court of Appeals for Veteran's Claims in Washington, D.C., handling disability cases involving both service connected and non-service connected disability cases for America’s veterans. One of the first lawyers to do so, he has practiced before the court since shortly after it first began hearing cases in 1991, winning his very first appeal to the court in 1992. He also practices before the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court to which appeals from the Veteran’s court go for final disposition.

Before specializing in the disability area, Mr. Jackson had an extensive litigation practice, appearing before the federal courts in cases involving federal statutes dealing with employment and employee benefits as well as in state courts involving a wide variety of issues, particularly personal injury matters.

Mr. Jackson graduated summa cum laude from Bowdoin College in 1974 and then the University of Maine School of Law in 1977, where he was on the law review staff and a member of the national moot court competition team. During law school he was honored to be selected as one of the few law students from around the country to participate in the Mental Health Law Project program in Washington, D.C. for a semester. He has also been honored by awards from the Maine Bar Foundation for his pro bono work with the Volunteer Lawyers Project.