Impending regs affect planning for clients facing long-term care: the state is on track to issue new regulations that will make it harder for clients who are headed for nursing-home care to hang on to assets. Elder law and estate-planning practitioners need to be prepared with new strategies for the new rules.
Attorneys whose practices encompass estate planning and elder law should be watching for the issuance of new regulations from the Illinois Department of healthcare and Family Services in the early part of 2007. The regulations will implement provisions of the Deficit reduction Act of 2005 (DRA 2005), PL 109-171,...

Elder law in a nutshell, 4th ed.
9780314167774 Elder law in a nutshell, 4th ed. Frolik, Lawrence A. and Richard L. Kaplan. Thomson West 2006 437 pages $28.00 Paperback West nutshell series KF390 Written by two...

Watch out for waivers.
When a client seems to know more than you do about services for their children with special needs, you listen hard to what they have to say. You hear stories of three-year waiting lists, unwritten rules that seem to change monthly, and the arbitrary loss of essential benefits for...

The perilous world of POA agents: they're responsible for tedious recordkeeping and, in some cases, prodigious uncompensated labor. They risk getting caught in family crossfire, even being sued. Who would want this thankless job? And can you make a well-meaning agent's work easier?
As this issue of the IBJ went to press, the media reported that a New York physician who had been indicted for allegedly converting nearly $1 million of his 92-year-old retired and ailing mother's savings using a power of attorney had accepted a plea bargain that would keep him...

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Byline: The Register-Guard Jewish Genealogical Society to host speaker Leah Maggie Garfield will be the speaker at the Aug. 13 meeting of the Jewish Genealogical Society Willamette Valley Oregon. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Quail Run Clubhouse, 435 Covey...

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Byline: The Register-Guard Attorney to lecture on elder law issues Sierra Oaks of Santa Clara will present "Getting Your Affairs In Order" by elder law attorney John Urness on Monday. The talk will include information about wills, trusts, power of attorney,...

Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs Announces That the Law Firm of Kaufmann & Kaufmann Will Join Its Akron Office.
This Addition Enhances the Firm's Traditional Strength in Trusts & Estates Law AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP is very pleased to announce that the law firm of Kaufmann & Kaufmann has joined the firm's Akron office. This addition brings three new...

Law Firm Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP Announces New Partners.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP, a 500+ attorney nationally recognized, full service law firm announced today that fourteen attorneys have been elevated to partner status within six of their twelve firmwide U.S. locations, including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix, New York, Sacramento...

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Julie K. Mangini, Esq. Appointed Chief Operating Officer of Update Legal.
NEW YORK, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Update Legal announced the appointment of Julie K. Mangini to Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Joshua Schott, President. In her expanded role as COO, Ms. Mangini will be in charge of customer service, operations and training. Human Resources, Staffing, and Update's branch offices...