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Learn how to address language and literature barriers, vision impairments, and hearing loss in legal practice. Participants will explore an attorney’s obligations to accommodate clients' needs and the standards required for adequate accommodation. Practical strategies will be shared to ensure clients facing these challenges are effectively supported, ensuring accessibility and adherence to ethical and legal standards.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

Enhance your ability to effectively guide clients in trust administration, ensuring compliance and avoiding common pitfalls that can lead to litigation, such as demands for accounting and citations for removal. This session will also deliver valuable insights into managing trust-related issues already in litigation and provide strategies for advising clients under the Illinois Trust Code.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

This session will explore new trends in home modifications, new tools and technologies designed to support Alzheimer’s patients, and practical tips for adapting homes to meet the evolving needs of aging individuals, ensuring a higher quality of life and prolonged independence.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

Learn the latest perspectives on identifying problems that might arise during post-death administration processes.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

Explore what CCRCs are and how they function to provide a continuum of care. This session will cover the key provisions included in CCRC contracts, the rights residents typically forgo when entering a CCRC, and compare these provisions to month-to-month residency agreements in non-Medicaid facilities.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

A step-by-step guide to when to do it, how to do it, why to do it and also what could go wrong.

Originally presented as part of the Elder Law Short Course 2024.

For years, the presenter doubted whether meaningful change was possible given the alarming attorney health statistics reported by the ARDC. However, exploring holistic and consciousness-based approaches revealed that improving attorney well-being is more within our control than she once believed. This presentation is designed to educate and empower attorneys to take charge of their health, enhance their careers, and create lasting, positive change for not only themselves but their clients.

As Baby Boomers age, there has been an increase in the number of long-term care policies that come thru an attorney’s office for review. This session will review the main parts of a long-term care contract and the key benefit features clients and attorneys will want to know as they consider making a claim. The session will also go over the document-intensive claim process and the most common pitfalls that cause a claim denial. We will cover best strategies and resources for families who are managing a claim. With this information, attorneys should be armed to better advise their clients about how to use this valuable resource.

This course provides an overview and explanation of the Multi-Board Residential Real Estate Form 8.0. The Multi-Board Drafting Committee comprised approximately 20 member organizations with 23 members. This standard contract became effective in early 2025.

Ethics in Collections: Rules v Practice is the fifth course in the series on monetary judgments. This panel discussion addresses a series of issues on the professional ethics involved in collection of monetary judgments. In each case, a situation is presented, along with accompanying questions. The panel then provides their perspective on the issue along with reference to the relevant rule of professional conduct.

Replevin, Detinue & Attachment, the fourth course in the monetary judgments series, introduces the principles and practices associated with Replevin, Detinue, and Attachment. Included is a discussion of the nature and application of each process, along with the advantages and disadvantages of each, both in legal and practical terms.

Secrets of the Citation Act and Wage Deductions and Garnishment, the second and third part of the monetary judgments series, the discussion turns to Citations to Discover Assets, along with Wage Deduction and Garnishment (Non-Wage). Topics covered include: The shift away from use of deductions and garnishment and toward use of citations, what a citation to discover assets is and what it can do, limitations on their use, and how and when deductions and non-wage garnishment can still be effective.