Celebrate the 15th Anniversary of the Elder Law Short Course by learning about important topics including dealing with difficult POAs/guardians, litigating nursing home cases, and maximizing Medicare benefits. Hear about the newest cases and statutes and hear from a panel of Guardianship Judges about what you can do better in their courtrooms. Get practice tips about effective law office management, law firm succession strategies, keeping seniors and adults with disabilities in the community and removing a bad POA or guardian. Other topics to be covered include: planning with retirement benefits, the new VA pension rules, special needs trusts, Medicaid appeals, mental health commitments and much, much more!

The 7th Annual Local Government Law Institute maximizes your learning about hot topics in Local Government Law, such as legalized cannabis, risk assessment, #me too, cyber-security, eminent domain, and housing. Featuring 7 hours of CLE, including 2 hours of Professional Responsibility credit pending approval, and panel discussions featuring the Public Access Counselor's staff explaining how the PAC bureau works as well as the faculty discussing social media, you won’t want to miss this program!

Get practical updates about many different financial issues affecting matrimonial practitioners at this popular annual program! See how to effectively conduct a direct examination of a valuation expert. Appreciate best practices for collecting attorneys' fees and calculating maintenance in complicated cases. Understand the differences between the income and market approaches to valuation. Learn how bankruptcy affects divorce cases as well as how to most successfully utilize mutually-agreed or court-appointed experts. You won't want to miss our annual judges' panel!

Do most of your clients have estates worth less than $4M? If so, the IICLE® “Estate Planning for the 99%” program is for you, as it will cover issues that are more common for those estates unaffected by current tax laws. Get a refresher about foundational estate planning documents and their execution requirements, take a comprehensive look at planning issues facing parents of minor children, understand the estate planning tools that can be used to transition a family owned business or farm, learn how to structure an estate plan using strategies other than trusts, consider several techniques which will help reduce or eliminate the imposition of the Illinois estate tax, understand potential conflicts and maximize the chance that an estate plan will be successfully defended, and obtain best practices for running a successful estate planning practice of any size.

**NEW LOCATION: FAIRMONT CHICAGO MILLENNIUM PARK** On July 12, Governor Pritzker signed Illinois House Bill 1471 into law, creating the brand-new Illinois Trust Code. This legislation will have huge impacts on Illinois estate planners’ practices. Learn everything you need to know about this new law from the committee that drafted it!