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On-Demand MCLE Webinars | Free

For details on the two new on-demand MCLE webinars: Protecting Your and Your Clients’ Interests in the Event of Your Disability, Death, or Other Disaster and Succession Planning for Solo and Small Firm Practitioners, please see news release.

  • Protecting Your and Your Clients’ Interests in the Event of Your Disability, Death, or Other Disaster
    This 1.0 hour on-demand CLE shows the necessity of having thoughtful planning documents in place when disaster strikes.
    Register on Go To Webinar

  • Succession Planning for Solo and Small-Firm Practitioners
    This 1.0 hour on-demand Ethics CLE is a joint project of the SLS and the VSB General Practice Section. This video is designed to help lawyers plan for those transitions during our careers that we choose, such as moving to a new firm, or a departure from practice to a new career or retirement.
    Register on Go To Webinar

  • Civility and Professionalism in a Successful Litigation Practice—Mentorship from the Bench and Bar
    Free webinar for Virginia lawyers to earn two hours of on-demand MCLE credit, including two hours of ethics credit.
    Civility and Professionalism in a Successful Litigation Practice—Mentorship from the Bench and Bar
    View CLE webinar for credit or on the VSB’s YouTube account without CLE credit.

Succession Planning

Publications

  • Senior Lawyer Dedicated Issues of Virginia Lawyer:

Forms

Senior Law Day

  • To present a Senior Virginian's Law Day program in your locality, there is a blueprint available for your use. You may watch the Senior Law Day hosted by Bill Wilson in Clifton Forge. For samples of past programs, please contact Nancy Donner, the SLC liaison at [email protected] or (804) 775-0519.

Transition Into Emeritus Status (TIES)

Public Resources

As a service to the public, the Senior Lawyers Section provides access to the following publications and videos:

  • Senior Law Day
    The 2019 Senior Law Day videos cover a wide range of topics from scams on seniors to grandparents' rights to estate planning.

  • Virginia Advance Directives and Health Care Decision Making
    The Health Care Decision Day webpage includes forms and information about advance medical directives, health care power-of-attorney, living wills and other topical issues.

  • Senior Virginians Handbook and Manual para Adultos Mayores de Virginia (Spanish version)
    A resource for seniors, their families, and their caregivers to provide an overview of and contact information for opportunities and choices facing seniors today, with a summary of how specific laws affect Virginia's elderly and practical advice on issues such as Medicaid, Alzheimer’s Disease, landlord-tenant relations, and much more. There is also an extensive list of community-service organizations that detail the various services available to senior Virginians.
    Members of the public may order a physical copy of the handbook by submitting an order form.

  • Wills in Virginia
    Offering straightforward and basic answers to questions about wills under Virginia law, this pamphlet explains the necessity of having a will, how a will is created, and how to make it legally binding.

  • Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings Regarding Incapacitated Adults
    This handbook, originally prepared by the Senior Lawyers Section in 2006, and updated in 2020, is available as a pdf document at no charge through the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Virginia Supreme Court.