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.

Medicaid Fair Hearing Decisions

  • Curated fair hearings 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 currently sponsored by the Wisconsin chapter of NAELA and Krause Financial
  • I need your help—sign up for the free newsletter, email me decisions that should be published, and submit feedback

Check out the database →

ELWPro

What started with the free fair hearings database continues with ELWPro, a paid subscription providing more detailed guides, resources, and CLE for Wisconsin elder law attorneys.

  • Subscribers get access to the Elder Law in Wisconsin Pro Toolkit, a collection of short, useful guides on particular issues in Medicaid planning.
  • In the works this year: guides (including outlines, checklists, forms, and calculators) on the medical & remedial expense deduction, patient liability, cost share, income eligibility, increasing income for the community spouse, and increasing the asset share for the community spouse.
  • Future years will likely see guides to promissory note planning, Medicaid verification, spousal testamentary trust planning, and more.
  • Subscribers also get access to monthly CLE webinars on recent fair hearing decisions and MEH updates and on recently published Pro Toolkit guides.
  • To launch ELWPro and while a library of content is being built, subscriptions are available at an introductory rate.

More about the toolkit →

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

More about me →