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Accreditation (Excerpt from nelf.org/page/Accreditation)

The National Elder Law Foundation complies with the following American Bar Association (ABA) standards to certify attorneys in the practice of elder law:

Accredited specialist certification

*Reprinted with permission from the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Specialization

A quick glance through the “attorneys” section of the yellow page directory of any major metropolitan area will make it clear that many lawyers specialize in one or more kinds of legal matters.

Like other professionals, many lawyers concentrate their practices to certain fields of law. In fact, most specialize to some degree by limiting the range of matters they handle.

An increasing number of lawyers are choosing to be recognized as having special knowledge and experience by becoming certified specialists in certain fields of law.

Lawyers who are certified as specialists have been recognized by independent professional certifying organizations as having an enhanced level of skill, as well as substantial involvement in established legal specialty areas. Certifying organizations require lawyers to demonstrate special training, experience and knowledge to ensure that recognition as a certified specialist is meaningful and reliable.

Specialty certification programs available to lawyers are growing both in numbers and variety. In 1993, the American Bar Association (ABA) adopted a set of voluntary national standards, along with a set of procedures to accredit specialty certification programs.

The standards were designed to establish reasonable and valid criteria to accredit programs that grant specialty certification to qualified lawyers and to provide state authorities with a basis for approving programs which seek recognition in their jurisdictions.

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Lisa Hostetler Brown, CELA* Certified Elder Law Attorney, Certified by the National Elder Law Foundation

Lane Cook, CFP* Certified Financial Planner, conferred by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards

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