Stetson University College of Law to sponsor 14th Annual Special Needs Trusts National Conference
This year’s conference offers two pre-conferences. One pre-conference will focus on the technology and social media issues faced by attorneys and their staff. The other pre-conference will focus on issues for pooled trust administrators, attorneys and those who work with pooled trustees.
Pre-conference: Law Office Management Technology highlights:
- What Law Office Staff Need to Know About Using Social Media in/for the Law Office
- The Firm’s Digital Assets – How to Protect Them, How to Value Them, What to Do With Them
- Developing Written Policies for All Sorts of Things in the Law Office
Pre-conference: Hot Topics About Pooled Trusts highlights:
- Breaking News – Recent Developments For, About, or Affecting Pooled Trusts
- Decision-Making for a Pooled SNT – Using a Decision Tree for SNT Distributions: Dealing with Clients and Attorneys
- Pooled Trusts Meet Subsidized Housing: Understanding How SNTs Are Treated in the World of HUD Housing
The Conference (Oct. 18-19, 2012)
The National Conference is hosting a two-day main conference featuring excellent speakers and support materials on basic and advanced topics for a variety of professionals who work in the field.
Main conference highlights:
- Goal-Based Investing and Management of the SNT – Different Investment Models and the Prudent Investor Rule
- Focus on SNTs: Checklists to Keep You on Track
- Marketing on Special Needs Practice – Five Tips in 60 Minutes
- Update from Social Security
- Reasons Why SSI Turns Down a SNT and How to Appeal
- HUD Policy and SNTs – Bringing Finley v. City of Santa Monica to Your State
- Fees – How Courts Interpret the Standard of Reasonableness
- The Update: Cases and Breaking News About SNTs