Candice Apple Biography
Professional Experience
Founder and President
Providing Social Security disability representation services nationwide, including Puerto Rico. Primary focus now is providing services throughout North Carolina.
Apple Investments, 1988 to present
Founder and President
Commercial and residential real estate investment firm.
Benefit Recovery Analysts, 1999 to present
Founder and President
Providing cost containment services to healthcare providers.
Apple Paralegal & Mediation Service, 2000 to present
Founder and President
Certified mediations, legal research and litigation support
Social Security Administration
Office of Hearings and Appeals/Office of Disability Adjudication and Review
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Internal Revenue Service
United States Secret Service
Education
- N. C. Supreme Court sanctioned training in mediated settlement conferences in Superior Court civil actions and Workers’ Compensation cases
- Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers (Negotiation Workshop), 2000
- N. C. Academy of Trial Lawyers (C.L.E. Advanced Mediation Course), 2002
- Pepperdine University School of Law - Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution (Intensive Course in Dispute Resolution and Religion), 2003
University of Maryland
Core coursework in Business Administration and Criminal Justice
Guilford College
Charlotte Business College
Personal
Member and keynote speaker of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives and the Association of Disability Examiners
Past Advisory Board Member of the American Disability Representation Specialists
Participates in local civic and charitable activities