Other Materials

At the NAELA Advanced Practitioners' Program in Dallas in 2004 every participant was required to submit a paper. The three lawyers from our office attending submitted these papers:

    Leigh Bernstein: A Different Approach to Intra-Family Allocation of Settlement Awards

    Thomas Curti: An Overview of Veteran's Benefits

    Robert Fleming: Protecting Seniors' Autonomy

    Other participants allowing us to place their papers online for free access include:

    Betsy Angevine: A Problem Client: How to Help the Caregiver Spouse Who May Not Easily Adjust to a Spouse Being Placed in a Nursing Home

    Jean Galloway Ball: Analysis of an Elective Share Augmented Estate Claim

    Kim Boyer: Elder Exploitation Litigation in Nevada: A Model for Effective Recovery of Assets

    Baird Brown: The Art of Lawyering

    Joseph Buxton: A Multi-Disciplinary Elder Law Practice- Some Thoughts

    Greg French: Professionalism and Ethics in Representing Older and Disabled Clients

    Susan Goldring: Grandparents' Rights and Responsibilities Concerning Their Grandchildren After Troxel

    James Jaeger: Unconventional Wisdom: The Intersection of Elder Law and "Conventional" Estate Planning

    Bailey Liipfert: Homes: Practical Perspectives and Perils for the Trustees of Payback Special Needs Trusts

    Janet Lowder: The Conflicting Interests Between Tax and Medicaid Planning

    Patricia Nelson-Reade: Thompson v. Goetzmann: Medicare's Secondary Payer Statutes Long Reach to Settlements

    Ray Parri: Medicaid Recovery Procedures

    Jack Rosenkranz: Remembering Our Forgotten Veterans: Accessing Veterans Benefits for Veterans and Their Survivors

    Dennis Sandoval: Drafting Trusts for Maximum Asset Protection from Creditors

    Jim Schuster: A Review of Some Considerations Arising Out of a Nursing Home Admission Contract That Limits Medicaid Planning

    Scott Severns: Counsel for the Advocate: Empowering Those Who Care

    Emily Starr: Using Domestic Relations Procedures to Enhance the Financial Security of the Community Spouse

    Bridget O'Brien Swartz: Grantor v. Non-Grantor Special Needs Trusts

    Dennis Voorhees: The Improbable Good Death

    Mary Wanderpolo: The Importance of Counseling Skills in the Practice of Elder Law

    Ira Wiesner: Conscious Aging: Elder Law Attorney as Navigator for the Ages: A Discussion Offered as a Polemic

At the same program, Tom Begley discussed the idea of hiring a "coach" to help focus personal and professional development. Tom's talking points for group discussion about the concept are available here.

Wish you'd gone to the NAELA unProgram? Check out the 20 tips you missed at the 2001 unProgram, just as a sample of the kind of sharing you can expect at the next session.

Interested in Palm™ handheld devices and compatibles? Read about them in an article originally written for ACTEC Notes (warning: the information is out of date, as it was written before the debut of the Palm m series, the TRGPro or the Sony Clie line--but some of the observations remain accurate).
Thinking about giving voice recognition software a try in your law office? Read my (mostly dictated) diary-style evaluation of Dragon NaturallySpeaking and a sample letter produced using (almost) only voice.