April 6, 2009

April 16 Morning CLE focuses on health care directives

William Mitchell Professor Kim Dayton will discuss the importance of health care directives in a Morning CLE from 7:30 to 9 am Thursday, April 16, in Room 319. The CLE will highlight issues that sometimes create problems with interpreting and applying these documents in times of medical crisis. Participants will learn about the importance of conversations among clients, attorneys, and medical professionals about end-of-life health care decision making.

Afterward, CLE participants are invited to attend William Mitchell’s National Health Care Decisions Day event in the Kelley Board Room to complete their own directive.

Dayton is an internationally respected authority on elder law. As director of Mitchell’s Center for Elder Justice & Policy, she facilitates the center’s unique collaboration with advocacy groups to provide resources, technology, and information to help families, policymakers, and caregivers address issues faced by the nation’s aging population, such as elder abuse, housing, health care, and grandparent care giving.

Dayton co-authored the four-volume treatise Advising the Elderly Client and founded the National Elder Law Network (www.neln.org). She also sits as a distinguished fellow of the Canadian Centre for Elder Law Studies and was recently named an honorary member of the Special Needs Alliance, a national non-profit collective of many of the country’s leading disability and public benefits attorneys.

Application will be made for CLE credit. You may attend either the classroom CLE or the webcast CLE. The online registration deadline is April 9. To register after this date, contact Jane Andrews at 651-290-6431. Cost is $10 for the classroom CLE and $20 for the webcast CLE. There is no charge for alumni who graduated in 2007, 2008, or January 2009.

Register for the CLE online or email: events@wmitchell.edu or call (651) 290-6370.