This looseleaf manual contains more than 100 key forms and documents to help you: Organize a high-volume elder law practice Market your services to your clients Customize estate and Medicaid plans Provide the personalized service your clients deserve. These practice-tested forms are designed specifically for handling the special problems that arise in the representation of older clients. Each form is accompanied by practical, insightful commentary from Harry Margolis, who tells you when and how it should be used. Many documents include a range of alternative clauses for common and not-so-common situations. The 17 chapters are organized into five sections: Managing the Elder Law Practice Estate and Long-Term Care Planning Powers of Attorney, Medical Directives and Wills Trusts Miscellaneous ELDERLAW FORMS MANUAL saves hours of research and drafting time, simplifies information gathering, and gives you a competitive edge in this growing practice area.

Renowned expert Harry Margolis shares his insight and experience in the ElderLaw Forms Manual, to help you better represent your elderly client. This two volume looseleaf manual contains more than 100 key forms and documents to help you: Organize a high-volume elder law practice Market your services to your clients Customize estate and Medicaid plans Provide the personalized service your clients deserve. These practice-tested forms are designed specifically for handling the special problems that arise in the representation of older clients. Each form is accompanied by practical, insightful commentary from Harry Margolis, telling you when and how each should be used. Many documents include a range of alternative clauses for common and not-so-common situations. The 20 chapters are organized into five parts: Managing the Elder Law Practice Estate and Long-Term Care Planning Powers of Attorney, Medical Directives and Wills Trusts Miscellaneous. ElderLaw Forms Manual saves hours of research and drafting time, simplifies information gathering, and gives you a competitive edge in this growing practice area. All the forms are included on an accompanying CD-ROM. ElderLaw Forms Manual is featured in Elder Law Library on IntelliConnect and coming soon to Cheetah.

"This text is intended to provide a helpful introduction to the basics of what is today known as elder law"--

Are you ready to go beyond advising and planning to actively advocating the interests of your elderly clients? You can be, with this two volume handbook from two veteran elder law advocates. In a systematic and practical fashion, the authors address each key practice issue and provide an overview of the basic rules and guiding statutes/regulations, in-depth analysis of elder law practice together with guiding case law, and step-by-step explanation of the advocacy process, revealing how law operates in the real world and where things can go wrong. Plus you'll get their practice-tested minisystem for effective advocacy. After an introductory section explores basic principles, Representing the Elderly Client: Law and Practice addresses the six areas you'll encounter most often: Medicaid Special Needs Trusts Medicare and Managed Care Elder Abuse Nursing Home and LTC Facilities Intra-family and Postmortem Advocacy for Elderly Clients and Heirs. Practice forms, flowcharts, and tables put all essential information at your fingertips. The forms contained in the Author's Advocacy Mini-systems will save you hours of preparation time. Start finding effective solutions to your elderly clients' problems with Representing the Elderly Client: Law and Practice. Along with your Representing the Elderly Client two-volume print set, you'll receive a FREE CD-ROM containing word processing documents used in handling some of elder law's most complex concerns.

The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.