Elder Law in Wisconsin publishes knowledge for Wisconsin elder law attorneys.
Elder law attorneys have a common challenge: keeping up with the constant changes in our field. As one experienced lawyer told me: “There’s a lot of information out there, but you can’t read it all and practice elder law and make a living.”
Elder Law in Wisconsin aims to make that a little easier by creating new resources for Wisconsin elder law attorneys, starting with a database of fair hearing decisions. I am developing a curated, fully searchable database of decisions, each of which is tagged, indexed, and summarized, plus a timely email newsletter.
Key Features
- Curated database of decisions relevant to elder law attorneys
- Full text of decisions, available on the web, with the original PDFs attached
- Fully searchable
- Summaries of the facts, issues, and outcome in each decision
- Tagged and indexed by issue, subprogram, and ALJ
- Timely e-newsletter reporting and summarizing new decisions
You Should Know
- This database is free
- This database is sponsored by the Wisconsin chapter of NAELA
- I need your help—sign up for the free newsletter, email me decisions that should be published, and submit feedback
What’s Coming
- A Pro Toolkit of useful knowledge for Wisconsin elder law attorneys, including:
- A guide to income eligibility for long-term care Medicaid
- Calculators for patient liability and cost share
- A quick reference to the most useful fair hearing decisions
- A promissory note guide, calculator, and form
- A Medicaid verification guide including form letters and instructions for clients
- A guide to spousal testamentary trust Medicaid planning
These are my ideas for what to publish in the next few years. They are the things I want for my own practice. If you have any feedback or an idea of your own, I’d love to hear it. Just send me an email.
Who am I?
I practice elder law as a solo in New Richmond. I write and publish Elder Law in Wisconsin, and I work with other attorneys as researcher, co-counsel, or appellate counsel.
Atty. Benjamin Scott Wright
I’ve been practicing elder law since 2017. Before that, I spent six months as an attorney-editor at the State Bar of Wisconsin. Although my career soon led me into private practice and elder law, I never shook my desire to edit and publish. I had lots of ideas as an attorney-editor about publishing useful information for lawyers. Now I have lots of ideas about the resources I wish existed as a young, new elder law attorney.
Fair hearing decisions are, I hope, just the start. Elder Law in Wisconsin is my project to write and publish the things I want for my own practice. I hope it will prove useful for yours, too.
—Benjamin Scott Wright