Elder Law

PRE-ORDER This handbook is an essential reference tool covering nursing home issues from both the plaintiff’s and defendant’s perspectives.

PRE-ORDER This handbook is an essential resource providing practical advice and tips on advocating for the needs and interests of elderly clients.

This handy reference tool will help seasoned attorneys and will provide useful information for new attorneys, legal assistants, and law clerks working with clients in the planning and administration of an estate.

This presentation covers the use of social media, adding social media & internet-based data to cases, authentication of evidence, and more.

This presentation covers case studies, payment models, hospitalization, nursing homes, and more.

The 19th Annual Elder Law Short Course is designed for the Illinois elder law attorney who is dedicated to client service and eager to stay on the cutting-edge of legal issues affecting elderly clients and their families.

This year’s program offers plenary sessions on legislative updates, faith-based end-of-life decisions facing your clients, and updates regarding electronic wills and the Illinois Trust Code. In addition, you’ll get the latest on advising your clients about Medicaid (planning and application), long-term care insurance, contested estates and trusts, and using special needs trusts in elder law practice. The networking and educational opportunities provided by this course are not to be missed!

Many individuals believe that when they sign Advance Directive and Health Care Surrogate forms, they have taken care of their future medical preferences. In fact, many medical, institutional, and practical obstacles can affect the impact of these documents, based on religious objections, denials of patients’ rights to refuse medical care, and lack of knowledge of how decisions impact a patient’s quality of life. Learn how you can help your clients address these issues and how to advise clients seeking autonomy as they face end-of-life issues.

This course highlights some of the common scenarios banks encounter when dealing with elderly customers, their family, and their agents. Having a knowledge of what banks require and why they act as they do lessens the frustrations everyone feels when dealing with the sensitive subject of money.

This program offers an introduction to digital forensics and features the most common ways to locate, preserve, and analyze ESI (electronically stored information) to support litigation. Through use cases and case studies, learn about how to find data that originates or is stored in multiple locations, how data can be used in ways you may not have considered, and how to avoid pitfalls throughout the litigation lifecycle.

Hear from attorneys currently acting as guardian ad litem in various counties throughout the state. We will discuss the role of the guardian ad litem in disabled estates, the expectations of the court, and the preparation of guardian ad litem reports.

This presentation will explore various considerations when evaluating the legal fees of the fiduciary’s counsel, in both contested and uncontested matters. Practitioners can take appropriate steps to avoid short-changing themselves on their hard-earned fees by filing a proper petition which conforms to the law on reasonableness, and which includes sufficient detail of the work performed.