Originally from New Jersey, Sarah Patience Jacobs graduated from Monmouth University in 2006 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.  In 2011, she earned her Juris Doctor degree from Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law. In law school, Ms. Jacobs was an editor for the Barry Law Review.   Ms. Jacobs began working for Culbertson Law Group, P.L.L.C. directly out of law school. Since that time, she has successfully represented hundreds of claimants in their Social Security appeals to federal court.  Ms. Jacobs has also successfully briefed cases before the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals.  Ms. Jacobs was co-counsel in the case of Culbertson v. Berryhill which resulted in a 9 – 0 favorable decision in the United States Supreme Court on January 8, 2019. In December 2016, Ms. Jacobs became a Board Certified Advocate in Social Security Disability by the National Board of Trial Advocacy.  There are only currently ten board certified Social Security Disability attorneys in Florida. Ms. Jacobs limits her practice to exclusively representing claimants seeking Social Security Disability benefits throughout all stages of the disability process.  In her spare time, Ms. Jacobs enjoys spending time with her loving husband and five amazing children.

James W. Roughton has practiced in the area of Social Security Law for more than twenty-five years. He is a native Floridian. In 1981, he graduated from Mississippi College with a Bachelor of Arts degree. In 1984, he received a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Seminary. He also engaged in graduate studies in American history, culture and religious studies at the University of Florida and the University of Virginia. In 1994, James Roughton earned a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Florida and became a member of the Florida Bar. Since 1995, he has represented thousands of claimants in their claims for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits and Supplemental Security Income in hearings with Administrative Law Judges, especially in North Florida, Central Florida and South Georgia. He has handled claims from the initial filing stage through the Appeals Council. Apart from representing claimants, he takes pleasure in spending time with his grandchildren.

Garin Linell Lee is a 1987 graduate of Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. She taught middle school English before moving to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a congressional legislative assistant and speechwriter. Ms. Lee came to Pittsburgh in 1990 to attend the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, graduating in 1993. Ms. Lee interned for the Juneau Public Defender’s Office in Juneau, Alaska and the Federal Public Defender of the Western District of Pennsylvania and worked as a law clerk in the Allegheny General Hospital Legal Department. Ms. Lee began her legal career as a judicial law clerk in Armstrong County with the Honorable Kenneth Valasek. In 2000, Ms Lee joined the non-profit organization KidsVoice as a staff attorney. At KidsVoice, Ms. Lee represented abused and neglected children in dependency proceedings in the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Family Division, Juvenile Section until 2006. From 2006 until 2010, Ms. Lee worked as a Family Law Attorney in Allegheny County with a focus on child custody matters. Ms. Lee worked for the law firm Berger and Green from 2010 to 2019 as a Social Security Disability attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2019, Ms. Lee joined Osterhout Berger Disability Law, practicing in Pennsylvania and Florida. In 2021, Ms. Lee joined Culbertson Law Group where she represents disabled people in Social Security Disability (SSD) cases and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) cases in the Daytona Beach office. Culbertson Law Group has offices is in Orlando, Daytona Beach and Leesburg, Florida.

Ms. Lee is licensed to practice in all Pennsylvania State and Federal Courts.

Professional Associations: National Organization of Social Security Claimants (NOSSCR) Volusia County Bar Association

Specialties: Ms. Lee is committed to serving disabled individuals with compassion and respect and to advocating on their behalf to secure benefits in their Social Security Disability cases.