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!

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.

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.