This popular annual program for Illinois estate planners combines two full days of advanced estate and trust planning education from the top legal minds in the state with an unprecedented opportunity for professional networking. Topics covered this year include the new Section 199A qualified business interests deduction, the new Illinois Uniform Power of Appointment Act, estate planning with the increased federal exemption under the Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, the generation-skipping transfer exemption, trustee compensation, family business succession planning, and much more!

The 6th Annual Workers’ Compensation Institute will help you handle your most difficult cases more effectively. Learn how to prove and defend repetitive trauma claims (including analysis of the accident, notice and medical causation), prove up medical bills, and effectively handle occupational disease and hearing loss cases. You also won’t want to miss the annual case law update and hearing from the decisionmakers!

At the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers’ brand-new “Evidence & Family Law” program, powered by IICLE®, you will learn from esteemed AAML Fellows and numerous judges about best practices concerning the handling of evidence in family law cases. Better understand the rule against hearsay and increase your effectiveness at laying foundations as well as authenticating and properly preserving electronic evidence. Judges from several jurisdictions will answer YOUR questions and provide tips to maximize your courtroom expertise.

The IICLE® 2019 Business Valuation, Financial & Tax Issues in Divorce program will help you better understand the tricky “money” issues that family lawyers encounter. This year’s program features a trifecta of sessions to help you better maximize the use of a valuation expert, including a demonstrative session about best practices in cross-examination. You’ll also learn basics about estate planning and its interplay with divorce and understand the latest changes to the maintenance statute. Our popular case law update and judges’ panel are also not to be missed.

Both newer and seasoned litigators will benefit from expert advice on dealing with the multitude of participants and issues in the construction process from many of the authors of the IICLE Construction Dispute Litigation handbook (2018 edition). Utilizing a complex hypothetical, learn about issues unique to construction litigation, including acceleration and delay, commercial defects, disruption/loss of productivity, and construction accidents. Understand how to more successfully handle insurance issues and special defenses, work with experts/consultants, and recover damages.

This innovative program will help you hone your direct and cross-examination skills so that you may better represent your clients. Seasoned litigators will discuss and demonstrate best practices for examining police officers as well as expert witnesses who often testify at DUI trials. A judge will weigh in on how attorneys can most successfully make their case. This program promises to be exceptionally engaging and informative!

Get up-to-date on the hottest topics facing employment and labor attorneys! Topics include sexual harassment, local laws about paid sick leave and equal pay, wage & hour, opiates & marijuana, implicit bias, OSHA, potentially violent employees, and immigration. You won't want to miss our keynote speaker, Philip Miscimarra, former Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, and our special ethics presentation about social media and other types of electronic evidence.

Learn about land use law, zoning, affordable housing, wind farms and solar panel arrays, religious freedom issues involving land use, and more!

Helpful demonstrations by expert litigators will increase your ability to get evidence (even the digital kind!) admitted. Learn why you should lay proper foundations, how to respond to objections, and how to preserve your record if foundational objections are sustained. Understand what state and federal court judges consider to be litigators’ best practices and biggest challenges when it comes to laying foundations.

Designed for newer special needs law attorneys, this program provides a thorough overview and is chock-full of practice tips and sample forms! Client communication, drafting special needs trusts, maximizing government benefits, utilizing waiver programs, powers of attorney, guardianships, and MORE will be discussed.