Section Resource Recommendations 

Public Resources

As a service to the public, the Senior Lawyers Section provides access to the following publications and videos:

• Senior Law Day

  The 2019 Senior Law Day videos cover a wide range of topics from scams on seniors to grandparents' rights to estate planning.



• Virginia Advance Directives and Health Care Decision Making

  The Health Care Decision Day webpage includes forms and information about advance medical directives, health care power-of-attorney, living wills and other topical issues.



• Senior Virginian's Handbook and Manual para Adultos Mayores de Virginia (Spanish version)

  A resource for seniors, their families, and their caregivers to provide an overview of and contact information for opportunities and choices facing seniors today, with a summary of how specific laws affect Virginia's elderly and practical advice on issues such as Medicaid, Alzheimer’s Disease, landlord-tenant relations, and much more. There is also an extensive list of community-service organizations that detail the various services available to senior Virginians.
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• Wills in Virginia

  Offering straightforward and basic answers to questions about wills under Virginia law, this pamphlet explains the necessity of having a will, how a will is created, and how to make it legally binding.



• Guardianship and Conservatorship Proceedings Regarding Incapacitated Adults

  This handbook, originally prepared by the Senior Lawyers Section in 2006, and updated in 2020, is available as a pdf document at no charge through the Office of the Executive Secretary of the Virginia Supreme Court.

Attorney Resources — Publications

• Civility and Professionalism in a Successful Litigation Practice—Mentorship from the Bench and Bar

  This film includes practical advice from distinguished jurists and trial lawyers about the role and importance of civility and professionalism in conducting a successful litigation practice while achieving the best results for clients, in and out of the courtroom. It can be viewed as a webinar for CLE credit or on the VSB’s YouTube account without CLE credit. The CLE webinar includes a viewing of the film alongside a new series of hypotheticals for lawyers to consider in the film’s second hour.



• Senior Lawyer News newsletters




• Senior Law Day

  To present a Senior Virginian's Law Day program in your locality, there is a blueprint available for your use. You may watch the Senior Law Day hosted by Bill Wilson in Clifton Forge. For samples of past programs, please contact Nancy Donner, the SLC liaison at [email protected] or (804) 775-0519.



• Transition Into Emeritus Status (TIES)




• Virginia Lawyer magazine
  
  Senior Lawyer Dedicated Issues:

  • June 2025
  • February 2020
  • April 2018
  • February 2017
  • April 2015
  • June/July 2014
  • June/July 2013
  • April 2012
  • April 2011
  • April 2010
  • April 2009
  • April 2008
  • April 2007
  • April 2006
  • April 2005

Succession Planning

Planning Ahead: Protecting Your Client's Interests in the Event of Your Disability or Death Brochure

FREE CLE for up to 2.0 hours of live CLE ethics credit:

Protecting Your and Your Client’s Interests in the Event of Your Death, Disability, and other Disasters. Comment 5 of Rule 1.3 of the Rules of Professional Conduct states “[5] A lawyer should plan for client protection in the event of the lawyer's death, disability, impairment, or incapacity. The plan should be in writing and should designate a responsible attorney capable of making, and who has agreed to make, arrangements for the protection of client interests in the event of the lawyer's death, impairment, or incapacity.” In helping members of the Bar in their planning in compliance with Comment [5] and in furtherance of the Senior Lawyers Section’s goal of encouraging and assisting lawyers in doing such planning, local and specialty bar associations can arrange to have the Ethics CLE program presented to their members. The program may be presented as a one, one and one half-, or two-hour program. The program is presented at no charge and provides practical advice and forms for the lawyer’s use in such planning. For more information, or to schedule this presentation for your bar association, program, or group, please contact VSB Senior Lawyers Section Board of Governors Member Carole H. Capsalis, at (703) 526-4713 or email her at [email protected].

A lawyer should plan for client protection in the event of the lawyer's death, disability, impairment, or incapacity. This information is designed to assist in fulfilling these ethical responsibilities.

Forms

• Agreement for Attorney at Law Regarding Law Practice (pdf)
• Last Will and Testament Provision Appointing Attorney at Law as Executor to Deal with Law Practice (pdf)
• Durable Special Power of Attorney (pdf)
• "Checklist for Closing a Law Practice" is being updated and will be available at a future date.
• See more publications on the VSB Publications webpage.