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NYSBA | Representing Persons with Disabilities - 2006 = 15

Representing Persons with Disabilities - 2006

Non-Member Price:	$235.00
Member Price:	$150.00

Stock Status:	In Stock
Product Code:	80658

Product Description

This recording offers the general practitioner, the specialist, and the non-lawyer advocate with a comprehensive review of the legal issues involved in representing persons with disabilities. The program is organized to address the application of legal issues within a framework referencing traditional areas of the law, including government benefits, future care planning and trusts, healthcare decision-making, including end-of-life decisions, guardianship and anti-discrimination laws including the ADA, Human Rights Law, etc. The speakers will address general representation issues as well as “hot topics,” attorney’s fees, and recent developments in the field.

Program Contents

· Ethics: Representing Clients with Questionable Capacity

· Government Benefit Programs

· Future Care and Trusts

· Substituted Decision Making

· Anti-Discrimination Laws

Program Speakers

Lawrence R. Faulkner, Esq. (Chair)
General Counsel and Director of Quality Assurance
Westchester ARC
—White Plains

Valerie J. Bogart, Esq.
Selfhelp Community Services Inc.
—New York City

Lisa K. Friedman, Esq.
Law Office of Lisa K. Friedman
—New York City

Simeon Goldman, Esq.
Disability Advocates, Inc.
—Albany

Steven H. Mosenson, Esq.
General Counsel
United Cerebral Palsy Associations of New York State
—New York City

Jo Anne Simon, Esq.
Law Office of Jo Anne Simon
—Brooklyn

Total MCLE Credits...... 6.5

Ethics MCLE Credits.... 1.0

* Each additional person who uses the tapes for MCLE credit must purchase a copy of the "MCLE coursebook"
* This recording already includes one copy of the MCLE coursebook