CLE on Building a Special Needs Practice

The American Bar Association is sponsoring a 90-minute live webinar on August 16 entitled Building a Successful and Supportive Special Needs Practice. The program description is below:

This presentation will focus on various elements specific to operating a special needs practice. To be successful in serving the disability community, attorneys need to understand the issues facing families with special needs and be intimately aware of services available.

The faculty will provide an overview of special needs estate planning and how it differs from elder law and general estate planning. Presenters will also discuss how changes in public benefit laws and reductions in public service programs are shifting the primary objective of planning away from the preservation of public benefits in favor of the trust serving as a private social service system that provides advocacy.

Information will also be provided on how to coordinate professional advisors in a way that ensures lifelong advocacy while still empowering family and friends.