Elder Law Conference 2013 | Touro Law | Long Island, NY
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The Capacity Crisis: What Lawyers Need to Know and Do for Their Clients, the Public and Themselves
Touro Law Center's Aging and Longevity Law Institute
Monday, October 7, 2013
9:45 am - 4:30 pm
Touro Law Center held the 1st Annual Conference on Developments in Aging and Longevity Law. The conference marked the launch of Touro Law Center’s Aging and Longevity Law Institute and addressed the role of the legal profession to recognize and address America’s capacity crisis.
Through the substantive and passionate presentations of our esteemed interdisciplinary faculty and the informative and functional resources developed by our program committee which was comprised of respected professionals from around the United States, the Institute’s inaugural conference addressed, inter alia, the following important issues:
- What Lawyers and Judges Need to Know About the Causes and Implications of Diminished Mental Capacity
- The Need for the Government to Address the Legal Needs of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
- What Lawyers and Judges Need to Know and Do to Address the Capacity Crisis
PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Monday, October 7, 2013
9:00 am-9:45 am
Speaker: Dean Patricia Salkin, Touro Law Center
SESSION 1:
What Lawyers and Judges Need to Know About the Causes and Implications of Diminished Mental Capacity
10:00 am-10:15 am
The Fragility of Capacity: Tens of Millions of People, Hundreds of Billions of Dollars and the Power of Over One Million Attorneys
Speaker: Robert Abrams, Esq., Chair, Aging and Longevity Law Institute Advisory Board
The Etiology, Prevalence and Legal Implications of Diminished Mental Capacity
Dean Robert Goldberg, Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
11:15 am-11:30 am
How the Law Has and Continues to Evolve to Recognize the Unique Needs and Rights of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Honorable Sol Wachtler, former Chief Judge, New York State and Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Touro Law Center
SESSION 2:
The Need for Government to Address the Legal Needs of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
Keynote Presentations:
Introduction: Dean Patricia Salkin, Touro Law Center; and Professor Marianne Artusio, Director, Aging and Longevity Law
Institute, Touro Law Center
Speaker: Honorable A. Gail Prudenti, Chief Administrative Judge, New York State Unified Court System
New York State’s Legal Services Initiative: An Example of How New York State Government Addresses the Legal Needs of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Honorable Kathleen Rice, Nassau County, District Attorney
12:30 pm-1:15 pm Lunch
1:15 pm-4:30 pm
(Break 3:00 pm-3:15 pm)
SESSION 3:
Experiential Wisdom Through Collegial Collaboration: What Lawyers Need to Know and Do to Address the Capacity Crisis
I. Professional Responsibility
II. Recognition, Assessment and Legal Standards to Determine Diminished Mental Capacity
III. The Personal Challenges and Vulnerability of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
IV. Be a Planner, Not a Gambler: We All Need to Plan for the Possibility of Diminished Mental Capacity
Program Facilitator: Robert Abrams, Esq.
I. Professional Responsibility
The Applicability of the Rules of Professional Conduct When Providing Legal Services Involving Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Deborah Scalise, Esq., Scalise & Hamilton, LLP
II. Recognition, Assessment and Legal Standards to Determine Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Professor Marianne Artusio, Director,Aging and Longevity Institute, Touro Law Center
Speaker: Peter Strauss, Esq., Epstein, Becker & Green, P.C.
Speaker: Nancy Burner, Esq.,Nancy Burner & Associates, P.C.
III. The Personal Challenges and Vulnerability of Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Donna Dougherty, Esq., Attorney in Charge, Jewish Association Serving the Aging/Legal Services for the Elderly, Queens, New York
My Fiancée Can’t Remember My Name and I Don’t Care – When Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity Marry
Where Life and the Law Collide: Should Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity Have the Right/Privilege to Drive, Live Independently, Make New Friends, Make Bad Choices, Etc?
IV. Be a Planner, Not a Gambler: We All Need to Plan for the Possibility of Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Cora Alsante, Esq., Hancock Estabrook, LLP
Business, Tax and Employment Issues Involving Individuals with Diminished Mental Capacity, Including How to Close the Law Practice of an Attorney Exhibiting Clear Signs of Diminished Mental Capacity
Speaker: Richard Weinblatt, Esq., Haley Weinblatt & Calcagni
Speaker: Joan Lensky Robert, Esq., Kassoff, Robert & Lerner, LLP
The Determination of Testamentary Capacity in Contested Probate Proceedings
Speaker: Ilene Cooper, Esq., Farrell Fritz, P.C.
4:30 pm