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Courses and Presentations

EDWARD D. SPURGEON

Academic Courses

University of Georgia School of Law
Law Public Policy and Aging
Estate and Gift Tax
Estate Planning

University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law
Fundamentals of Tax Planning
Trusts and Estates
Elder Law and Social Policy
Health Law

S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Business Associations
Elder Law
Estate Planning
Federal Taxation
Health Law
The Law's Approaches to Legal Capacity and Standards for Legal Decision Making (with Ciccarello)

Stanford University School of Law
Elder Law

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Utah
Law, Sociey and Aging: What You Need to Plan Ahead

Presentations

Numerous local and national presentations to professional, academic and lay groups on elder law, health law and estate planning topics.


MARY JANE CICCARELLO

Academic Courses

S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Elder Law
The Law's Approaches to Legal Capacity and Standards for Legal Decision Making

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Utah
Law, Sociey and Aging: What You Need to Plan Ahead

CLE Presentations

Organized and presented at annual elder law CLE of the Needs of the Elderly Committee of the Utah State Bar on “Housing Options for the Older Client: From Staying at Home to Skilled Nursing Care Facilities” (May, 2004)

Organized CLE for annual meeting of Utah State Bar on “Assisted Living Issues in Utah” (July, 2004)

Organized and presented a New Lawyer Continuing Legal Education session on “Adult Guardianships” (November, 2004)

Planned, organized, and presented, at the request of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law a CLE session, on “Who Decides? What You and Your Clients Should Know About Health Care and End-of-Life Decision Making in a post-Schiavo World” (May, 2005)

Invited elder law panelist for “Decisions and Families”, CLE sponsored by the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law (September 23, 2005)

Presented on “Assisted Living” as part of annual elder law CLE sponsored by the Committee on Law & Aging of the Utah State Bar (May 19, 2006)

Other Presentations

Legal issues for persons with Alzheimer’s disease at special Alzheimer’s disease conference, The Forgetting, sponsored by KUED 7 (public television station of the University of Utah), the Utah Alzheimer’s Association, and the Salt Lake City Public Library (2004)

Legal issues for persons with early onset Alzheimer’s disease as part of a new education series sponsored by the Utah Alzheimer’s Association; participated as well in the development of the educational series for persons with early onset Alzheimer’s disease (2004)

Legal issues for caregivers at special sessions of the caregiver support groups throughout Utah, in Clearfield (sponsored by the Davis County Area Agency on Aging); Logan (sponsored by the Bear River Area Agency on Aging); and Price (sponsored by Active Re-Entry, an organization supporting persons with disabilities) (2004)

“Legal Issues as You Plan Ahead” to the Prostate Cancer Support Group of the Utah chapter of the American Cancer Society (2004)

Participant in a panel presentation (including two physicians, and a rabbi) on end-of-life and other health care decision making issues at Congregation Kol Ami in Salt Lake City, May 2005, “Whose Life is It Anyway? Health Care and End-of-Life Care Decision Making” (2005)

Salt Lake County senior center on “Planning Ahead: The Legal Tools You Need” (June 20, 2005)

“Health Care Advance Directives and Utah’s POLST-Physician Order for Life-Sustaining Treatment” to non-profit organizations associated with the Community Services Council in Salt Lake (August 18, 2005)

In-service presentation to staff at Christus Marian Center, a special geriatrics mental health facility in Salt Lake City on “Utah’s Mental Health Directive and other Advance Directives” (September 27, 2005)

Utah Hospital Association and Utah Health Care Association annual meeting on “End-of-Life Care: Whose Decision is it Anyway?” (September 28, 2005)

Legal issues for persons with early onset Alzheimer’s disease as part of an education series sponsored by the Utah Alzheimer’s Association (October 11, 2005;March 28, 2006)

Legal issues for caregivers at special sessions of the caregiver support groups throughout Utah, in Park City (May 16, 2006) (sponsored by the Mountainlands Area Agency on Aging); Salt Lake County (January 19, 2006;January 23, 2006;March 15, 2006) (sponsored by Salt Lake County Aging Services); and Price (sponsored by Active Re-Entry, an organization supporting persons with disabilities)

“Planning for Incapacity: The Legal Tools You Need” to the Holladay, Utah Rotary Club (February 15, 2006)

“Planning for Incapacity: The Legal Tools You Need” to the University of Utah Staff Retirement group (February 27, 2006)

“HIPAA and GRAMA: Similarities and Differences” to the Community Action Teams of Salt Lake County sponsored by Salt Lake County Aging Services, Adult Protective Services, and the Salt Lake County Police Department (May 11, 2006)



JILENNE GUNTHER

Academic Courses

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, University of Utah
Law, Sociey and Aging: What You Need to Plan Ahead



ELIZABETH J. MUSTARD

Academic Courses

University of Georgia School of Law
Law Public Policy and Aging
Estate and Gift Tax (guest lecturer)

Walter F. George School of Law, Mercer University
Law Public Policy and Aging
Estate and Gift Tax

CLE Presentations

ABA Senior Lawyer’s Division
How to Profitably Expand your Practice with Elder Law (2004)



SEAN RASHKIS

Presentations

Panelist discussing benefits of pro bono mediation to increase service to low-income individuals at the American Bar Association’s Equal Justice Conference, Austin, TX (May 2005)

Moderator and panelist discussing the creation and implementation nof the Senior Legal Hotline Mediation program at the State Bar of California's Pathways to Justice (2005)