Planning ahead is important. A life-altering event can impact your practice, clients and family. We're here to guide you with planning and to help if trouble strikes.
Life-altering events like significant illness, freak accidents, or other kinds of impairments can unexpectedly impact your practice. While it’s hard to think about the unpredictable happening, it can happen to any one of us at any time. We’re here to help you prepare as well as to help you handle the expected. The following resources can help with both.
Life-altering events like significant illness, freak accidents, or other kinds of impairments can unexpectedly impact your practice. While it’s hard to think about the unpredictable happening, it can happen to any one of us at any time. We’re here to help you prepare as well as to help you handle the expected. The following resources can help with both.
1. Line-Up Personal, Practical, and Emotional Help.
Support from others is crucial. Now is the time to ask others to lean in. Here are some free and confidential resources offered through the bar:
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2. Form a Care Team.
If your life-altering event is medically related, you likely already have a medical professional in your corner. Expand your care team early on to include a patient navigator, case worker, or social worker who can answer questions, offer support, and direct you to resources to address the physical, emotional, and logistical impacts of treatment. Ask your provider about what they offer for patient and family support. The following links can also help. |
3. Get Insurance in Place and Identify Your Financial Resources.
If a life-altering event happens understand early on the costs of treatment, available insurance coverage, access to short or long-term disability benefits, and any timelines required for life insurance designations.
5. Succession Planning and Important Ethics, and Malpractice Information for Lawyers, Law Firms, and Legal Employers.
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4. Get Appropriate Care Directive and Estate Documents in Place.
Get the medical care you want, avoid unnecessary suffering, and relieve caregivers of confusion and decision-making burdens during moments of crisis or grief by preparing or reviewing the documents that dictate your estate and care directives. Find a Utah attorney to help here. Free help and information is also available online through the following resources.
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Craig and Nancy Johnson wish to thank the law firm of Parsons, Behle & Latimer, the MLC Insurance Agency, the Utah State Bar, the Utah State Bar's Estate Planning Section, Utah's Lawyers Helping Lawyers and the dedicated members of the working group that donated many hours of effort toward this important initiative.