(Update March 25, 2020 - the NAELA Annual Conference in Seattle has been canceled due to the COVID-19 emergency.)
Mark your calendar for NAELA’s only national meeting in 2020. Plan to join us in the unique city of Seattle for the 2020 Annual Conference on Thursday, April 30 and Friday, May 1. Seattle (also known as the Emerald City) is the perfect backdrop with year-round greenery, beautiful parks, a plethora of coffee shops, and diversity in culture for a 2020 CLE program. Located in the heart of downtown Seattle, Hyatt Regency Seattle is a five-minute walk from Westlake Center and within a mile of Seattle’s must-see attractions, including the Space Needle, Chihuly Garden and Glass, Pike Place Market, and more.
For more information, visit www.NAELA.org/2020Annual.
You’ll Want to Attend This Year’s Event for Sessions Like This
Join your NAELA colleagues for the only “live” national event of the year including:
• Advanced and timely educational content including 24 distinct sessions
• Two intensive tracks: Special Needs Planning (Thursday) and Drafting and Administering Essential Elder Law Documents (Friday)
• Ethics plenary session: A Dramatic Guided Tour to the Perceptions of Law as a Profession as Shown in the Plays of William Shakespeare (and How Ethical and Professional Conduct Will Improve Those Perceptions)
• Case Law Update
Two Pre-Program Offerings (separate registration)
Practice Management Workshop: How to Increase Profits with Less Stress
Learn what you didn’t in law school . . . how to run a profitable and satisfying law practice
Wednesday, April 29
This full-day program will focus on the business of a law practice. While many attorneys are experts in their subject matter, financial statements, budgeting, technology, cyber security, and HR are skills that weren’t taught in law school and aren’t a focus of many conferences. As a result, many elder law and special needs attorneys are drowning in the day-to-day running of the practice. They find they are short on time, stressed about the business, and making less money than they want. This program will give attendees much needed business skills and will provide tips and tricks to manage your practice more efficiently. Everyone from those new in practice to the most experienced practitioners will benefit from this workshop taught by legal practice management experts.
Advanced Elder Law Review
Tuesday, April 28 and Wednesday, April 29, 2020
This two-day program (designed by NAELA past-presidents) offers 14 advanced-level sessions on elder and special needs law based on core practice areas defined by the National Elder Law Foundation (NELF).
Networking Opportunities
• Welcome Reception (included in registration)
• First-time attendee get-together (included in registration)
Educational Offerings
Special Needs Planning Intensive (Thursday)
• To Pool or Not to Pool: Tricky or Esoteric Issues When Dealing with Pooled Trusts
• Family Matters: How Family Law and Special Needs Planning Go Hand-in-Hand
• Special Needs Trusts Distributions: Prickly Issues and Skillful Solutions
• Pulling It All Together: Hands-On Drafting
Drafting Essential Elder Law Documents (Friday)
• Irrevocable Income-Only Trusts
• Health Care Advance Directives
• What Your Clients Need to Know About Administering Irrevocable Trust and Trusts Holding Retirement Funds for Beneficiaries With Special Needs
• Life Happens: Modifying the Irrevocable Plan
Distinct Content Via Breakout Sessions
• Unique Challenges Faced by Aging LGBTQ+ Adults
• Have Your Cake and Eat it Too: With Complete Planning, Staying at Home Forever is a Potential Reality
• It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane — It’s a Super Parent! Supporting Parents of Children with Special Needs
• Crafting Long-Term Care Coverage Through Medicare
• What Elder Law Attorneys Need to Know About Taxes
• Guardianship and Conservatorship: When Appointment Is the First Step to Litigation
• Whatcha’ Gonna Do When They Come for Your Client: Representing Fiduciaries That Fail to Act
• Fiduciaries Who Breach: What’s an Attorney to Do?
• Medicaid Cases and Strategies That Have Opened Doors
• Demystifying Death: How to Help Clients and Families Deal with Death
For More Information
Visit www.NAELA.org/2020Annual for full agenda, registration, and lodging information. We look forward to seeing you at this year’s 2020 Annual Conference in beautiful Seattle, Washington.