Know Your Tool Kit: How Estate Planners Can Address Select Guardianship and Public Benefits Concerns - Webcast Replay | Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education

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Know Your Tool Kit: How Estate Planners Can Address Select Guardianship and Public Benefits Concerns
Expires: 5/1/2023

As life “happens” to our aging clients, their needs can change in unimaginable ways. Sometimes, they need protection from bad actors. Sometimes, they unwittingly become a bad actor. Sometimes, they have caregiving needs at great expense. This session will cover the legal rules that you will face and the solutions you can offer when protecting clients in some of these circumstances.
Ray J. Koenig III, Clark Hill PLC, Chicago
Ben A. Neiburger, Generation Law Ltd., Elmhurst

*Originally part of the 64th Annual Estate Planning Short Course

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Live Webcast Replay on Friday, April 29, 2022 from Noon to 1:00 PM
Know Your Tool Kit: How Estate Planners Can Address Select Guardianship and Public Benefits Concerns
Expires: 5/1/2023

As life “happens” to our aging clients, their needs can change in unimaginable ways. Sometimes, they need protection from bad actors. Sometimes, they unwittingly become a bad actor. Sometimes, they have caregiving needs at great expense. This session will cover the legal rules that you will face and the solutions you can offer when protecting clients in some of these circumstances.

Ray J. Koenig III, Clark Hill PLC, Chicago
Ben A. Neiburger, Generation Law Ltd., Elmhurst

*Originally part of the 64th Annual Estate Planning Short Course

Contributors

Ray J. Koenig III

Clark Hill PLC, Chicago

Ray J. Koenig II,I a Member with Clark Hill PLC in Chicago, represents individuals, families, financial and medical institutions, charities and governmental agencies in probate, trust, and guardianship controversies, including complex matters which require practical solutions.
Ray continually provides quality, responsive, and efficient representation to his clients. Ray is dedicated to the needs of his clients, whether that requires aggressive advocacy in a courtroom, skilled negotiations to prevent or conclude litigation, or effective counseling to avoid future trust and estate controversies.
Ray seeks ways to resolve difficult issues in the most effective manner possible. His success has resulted in appointments by judges as Guardian Ad Litem and defense counsel by judges in complicated guardianship matters, and as Special Administrator in problematic probate matters.
Ray has decades of experience in a variety of aspects of controversies involving trusts, probate, guardianships, and related fiduciary issues including will and trust contests, will and trust construction and reformation actions, citations to recover, breach of fiduciary duty claims, charitable disputes, and guardianship litigation.
His years of practice have also resulted in his retention as an expert witness in matters involving guardianship and probate issues. His depth of knowledge has been informed by and led to many speaking engagements and publications.
Ray proudly serves as Managing Member of the firm’s Chicago office and Co-Chair of the firm’s Litigation practice. He served seven years on the firm’s Executive Committee.
Ben A. Neiburger

Generation Law Ltd., Elmhurst
Ben A. Neiburger has been giving legal and lay audiences a reprieve from some of the most complex and boring topics in the legal field (specifically, ERISA, Medicaid, and Eldercare) since 1994. His delivery style helps you understand the important aspects of these topics in a way that gives you the ability to educate your clients on the issues that they need to know and to help you avoid malpractice. 
In fact, Mr. Neiburger was named a “Super Lawyer” in Elder Law by Thompson Reuters and the publishers of Chicago magazine in 2007, 2009 – 2021.
Ben is an active member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) and a Past President of the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education and through frequent speaking engagements and ongoing course work both locally and nationally, is in continuous pursuit of knowledge and insight to the laws and finances that affect our families and senior citizens. He brings this wealth of knowledge, his clear and common-sense explanations, his patience, gentle humor and sensitivity to each of his legal consultations.