Event Overview
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM —Business Meeting of the Elder Law and Special Needs Section | Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor
1:30 PM – 6:00 PM – Exhibitor Gallery – Mercury Rotunda, 3rd Floor
2:00 PM – 6:15 PM —CLE Program | Mercury Ballroom, 3rd Floor
6:30 PM – 7:30 PM — Off-site Reception | 3 West Club, 3 West 51st St (at 5th Ave), New York
(Advance registration is required to attend)
CLE Program Topics include:
- Update on NYS Medicaid Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS)
- Using AI and Technology to Enhance our Practice and Improve Services
- Elder Law Update
- Creating Accessibility in the Practice of Elder Law: How to Make Your Elder Law Practice, Online and Offline and In-Person More Accessible to Your Clients
General Registration Fee
Required for in-person attendees.
| NYSBA Members | $220 |
| Non-members | $305 |
+plus…
$120 Program Registration Fee
The Elder Law and Special Needs Section Annual Meeting Reception
Tuesday, January 16, 2023
6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
3 West Club | 3 West 51st Street | New York, NY 10019
$75.00 per ticket
Please note, for those of you that have already registered for the Annual Meeting, the only way to add this event to your current registration is to call the Member Resource Center directly at 1-800-582-2452.
Tuesday, January 16th
4.5 MCLE Credits
3.5 Areas of Professional Practice, 1.0 Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Co-Chairs:
Michael D. Dezik, Esq. Judith D. Grimaldi, Esq.
Gold & Dezik Grimaldi Yeung Law Group
This program is transitional and is suitable for all attorneys including those newly admitted.
1:30 p.m. - 1:55 p.m.
Introduction, Business Meeting
Speaker
Fern J. Finkel, Esq. | Fern Finkel & Associates, PLLC. Brooklyn, NY
1:55 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Break
2:00 p.m. – 2:50 p.m.
I. Update on NYS Medicaid Long Term Supports and Services (LTSS)
This presentation will provide a status report on the New York Independent Assessor Program as well as strategies for personal care & CDPAP long-delayed fair hearings.
Speaker
Rebecca Wallach | New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) New York, NY
Valerie J. Bogart | New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG) New York, NY
1.0 MCLE Credit in Areas of Professional Practice2:50 p.m. – 3:40 p.m.
II. Using AI and Technology to Enhance our Practice and Improve Services
Speaker
Alexander Paykin | The Law Office of Alexander Paykin, P.C. New York, NY
1.0 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice3:40 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Break
4:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
III. Elder Law Update
Recent Statutes, Updates, Case Law, and Changes
Speaker
Robin Goeman | Law Offices of Robin Goeman Montpelier, VT
1.5 Credit in Areas of Professional Practice5:15 p.m. – 6:05 p.m.
IV. Creating Accessibility in the Practice of Elder Law How to Make Your Elder Law Practice, Online and Offline and In-Person More Accessible to Your Clients.
The presenters will share how they have adapted their firms and practice policies to accommodate seniors and those with special needs or other physical limitations. This session will begin with an interview with Michael (who has severe hearing loss and is blind) on his experiences in entering offices and discussing the difference it makes for him when the location is accessible or thoughtfully arranged with a focus on persons with physical or sensory limitations. The speakers will discuss and draw upon their experiences working with special needs and disabled clients. We will learn how they have physically structured their offices, policies, work products, websites, and communication to accommodate their staff and their clients. They will also discuss how to walk the walk and talk the talk when serving and advocating for people with disabilities.
Speaker
Michael J. Amoruso | Amoruso & Amoruso, LLP Rye Brook, NY
Vincent J. Russo | Russo Law Group, PC Garden City, NY
1.0 Credit in Diversity Equity & Inclusion6: 30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
The Elder Law and Special Needs Section CLE Reception
3 West Club 3 West 51st Street (at 5th Avenue), New York, 10019 Cost: $75.00 Preregistration is required to attend the reception. Please contact the Member Resource Center directly at 1-800-582-2452 today to sign up.
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