The 14th 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 preventing financial exploitation, common psychiatric diagnoses facing your clients, and updates regarding special needs planning. In addition, you’ll get the latest on advising your clients about Medicaid (planning and application), nursing home issues, recovering assets in disabled estates, and multi-jurisdictional guardianship issues. The networking and educational opportunities provided by this course are not to be missed!
Learn to minimize the number of times you will utter the words, “if only I had known …” by learning about Medicaid eligibility rules and much more! Originally presented as part of the 15th Annual Elder Law Short Course, available in its entirety as P9007-19U.
The 14th Annual Elder Law Short Course will help you stay on the cutting-edge of legal issues affecting elderly clients and their families. This year’s program offers plenary sessions about organ donations & funeral planning, attacks on POAs, ethical obligations when representing fiduciaries, and avoiding forced retirement. Day Two offers a LITIGATION track and a PLANNING track, including topics such as divorces involving a disabled spouse, cross-examining experts in guardianship trials, Social Security disability claims, how to recover money/property for disabled adults, and much more! The networking and educational opportunities provided by this course are not to be missed!
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!
Due to the increasing incidence of dementia and Alzheimer's disease, elder/ adult guardianship mediation offers many potential benefits to attorneys and participants in the mediation process. Originally presented by the DuPage County Bar Association.
Essential guide covering issues surrounding contemporary relationships, including same-sex marriage and polyamory. Also covers transgender issues from family law to estate planning.
Understand various aspects relating to the testimony of physicians during a guardianship trial. Originally presented as part of the 14th Annual Elder Law Short Course, available in its entirety as P9007-18U.
Learn strategies for drafting and responding to written discovery and taking depositions (including expert depositions) in contested guardianships. Originally presented as part of the 14th Annual Elder Law Short Course, available in its entirety as P9007-18U.
Learn to freeze assets by filing pleadings to obtain recovery of money or property. Get step-by-step instructions about how the Probate Act allows the practitioner to recover assets, seek and obtain information and documentation which assist in the recovery of assets, and enjoin assets of the exploiter. Originally presented as part of the 14th Annual Elder Law Short Course, available in its entirety as P9007-18U.
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