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The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

Doug Larson

Kim Dayton

Professor of Law
William Mitchell College of Law

A. Kimberley Dayton created the National Elder Law Network (NELN) web site in 1995. The concept arose in connection with her role in starting an elder law clinic, and from her early interest in using the Internet to share information. Of special concern to Dayton was putting information on-line that either was not available on the Web, or was too difficult to access.

Dayton was a MAGEC fellow at the University of Minnesota Center on Aging, and is a Distinguished Fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies. She was a professor at the University of Kansas School of Law from 1986 to 2003, and has held visiting professorships at De Paul University College of Law, Washburn University School of Law, and the University of Miami School of Law’s summer London program. She has also worked in private practice and clerked for the federal Court of Appeals…

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Dayton, a Professor of Law at William Mitchell College of Law, is an expert in the area of Elder Law. She has authored numerous books, articles, essays, and other published information on the topic. She received her J.D. from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and her B.A. from the University of Kansas.

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