Practice Basics

This course helps estate planners understand and advise on a variety of topics impacting nearly all clients with Individual Retirement Accounts. Topics addressed include tax deferral during the owner's lifetime, required minimum distributions, qualified charitable distributions, beneficiary selection and designations, spousal rollovers, and inherited IRAs.

This course provides an introductory overview of the laws and regulations that govern installation and operation of commercial wind and solar facilities in Illinois.

This course provides an introduction and overview of Illinois’ Cannabis Regulation & Tax Act. It includes a discussion of some of the issues faced by the state, and prospective businesses, in implementing the law, as well as a general outline of what the law includes.

This course discusses the process of building up your book of business in your trusts & estates legal practice. Topics include: Moving into your own practice, business infrastructure, issues once you have started, staffing, use of Artificial Intelligence, and adding partners. Originally presented as part of the Estate Planning for the 99%.

A discussion of the building blocks of an estate plan and factors to consider when developing one for a client.

This course provides a overview of state efforts to legalize medical and adult-use cannabis programs and the ongoing conflict of these efforts with the federal illegality of cannabis.

Bundle of 3 Books That Serve As Useful Research Foundations for New Attorneys, Legal Assistants, and Law Clerks. They Also Make Handy Reference Guides for Seasoned Attorneys.

Bundle of 9 Handy References for Seasoned Attorneys and Useful Research Foundations for New Attorneys, Legal Assistants, and Law Clerks.

Whether you are acting as the attorney in a Guardianship for the Petitioner, the Respondent or as the Guardian ad litem, this course will help you navigate through some of the stumbling blocks you may encounter at the different stages of pleadings, discovery and hearings in adult and minor guardianships.