Giles v. US Social Security Administration, Acting Commissioner

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE Michael Giles v. Case No. 17-cv-659-PB Opinion No.

2020 DNH 025

Andrew Saul, Commissioner, U.S. Social Security Administration1 MEMORANDUM AND ORDER Attorney D. Lance Tillinghast seeks $38,710.00 in attorney’s fees under 42 U.S.C. § 406(b) (“Section 406(b)”) for his successful representation of Social Security claimant Michael Giles. Pet. For Auth. of an Att’y Fee, Doc. No. 13. He argues that a fee agreement he executed with Giles in September 2015 entitles him to Section 406(b) fees, and that he would be entitled to attorney’s fees…