Illinois (IL) Disability Law CLE Course Catalog

How do attorneys make rain while living openly with disabilities, and what challenges do they face while doing so? Join our panel as they discuss these topics, among others.

When a client asks you (or, when you ask yourself), "when should I take my Social Security retirement benefit?" will you know how to answer that question? This session will help you learn how to respond to that question. There is no "one size fits all." However, you will learn how to approach the subject and guide your client to an answer that will meet the client's goals.

This panel of experts will discuss the events leading up to the HAVEN Act’s passage, the new exemption from Current Monthly Income created by the Act, suggestions on how to talk with your clients about military or VA benefits and documents, and how the Act applies to your pending cases.

Providing civil legal services to low-income and vulnerable clients presents unique practical issues as well as ethical considerations for lawyers. Join our seasoned panel: Marianne J. Conrad, Indiana Legal Services, Inc., and Jenny K. Mittelman, State Bar of Georgia as they discuss these issues with moderator Ellyn Rosen of the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility.

The rules and policies of the many public assistance programs for your special-needs clients are daunting, and these clients often profess confusion and despair at their inability to successfully navigate these bureaucracies. The attorney who can bring accurate information and a knowledge of the available financial and health care resources, and how to obtain them, into the planning process will quickly be viewed as a trusted advisor for those persons with special needs and their families.

Do you know when and how much medical information employers may ask of their employees? Or how much medical information employees need to disclose to their employers? Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) strictly limits the circumstances under which employers can ask employees for medical information or require them to take medical examinations. Get all the answers for your clients as well as your practice!

This webinar is for legal advisors of individuals who are filing disability claims or appeals with their disability insurer, the Social Security Administration, or the Department of Veterans Affairs.

Service animals, emotional support or comfort animals, therapy animals, and facility dogs -- enter the sometimes confusing world of dogs and the law. If you want to know what the differences are between each, as well as what laws affect each category, bone up with this course.

This program will focus on the interventions available through the judicial process which can help divert disabled students from the juvenile justice system and insure that they are properly identified and served in the school setting.