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Any Elder Law/Estate Planning attorneys in here?
Attorney here working in a quasi-legal field (elder law policy), thinking about eventually taking what I've learned here and transitioning into estate planning practice. I was wondering how any of you ended up in that field...did you focus on this while in law school? Get a LLM (in taxation or something else)? Did your employer train you in this area? Or did you just take a few CLE classes?
Although I work in a related area and spend a significant amount of time dealing with state laws related to Medicaid planning, I don't spend all of my time focusing on this. I probably spend about 60% of my time working on regulation of long term care facilities and the administration of these programs. So, I'm not sure that all of the skills I'm acquiring will transfer, and I feel a little self conscious because I'm not technically practicing right now. I'm dealing with research and policy issues in this area.
I would ask some of the NAELA members who stop by, but I don't want word to get out that I'm looking to do anything else, because this is more of a longer term career goal. I'd appreciate any advice you might have!