What Estate Planning & Elder Law Lawyers Do
Estate planning & elder law lawyers:
- Help clients plan for major life events, educate them about alternatives, and draft documents implement clients’ choices
- Represent individual clients
- Navigate complex statutes and administrative regulations, case law, and complicated family dynamics
- Practice in solo or small firm practices, or occasionally in large firms
Related pathways: Tax, Family Law
Who Might Enjoy This Specialty?
You might enjoy practicing estate planning or elder law if you are:
- Interested in people and their life stories and at ease with the ill and dying
- Non-judgmental and open minded as clients tell you about challenges such as alcoholism or drug addiction within their family
- A clear writer, attending to detail
- Well-organized and able to move your work along in an office practice without external deadlines or high adrenalin
- Adept at juggling work for a high caseload of clients
- A life-long learner eager to work in a multi-faceted constantly
changing area of the law
- Conflict averse or more interested in planning than disputes
- Seeking a comfortable living, not exceptional wealth