Conference Agenda

8:10 - 8:20  WELCOME
Ben Thomas Cole, II, Executive Director, NMRLS
8:20 - 9:20 PREDATORY LENDING ISSUES AFFECTING the Elderly
Amanda Glover Evans, Esq., Director of the NMRLS Mississippi Taxpayer Assistance Project (LITC)
9:20 - 9:30 Break
9:30 - 10:30  VULNERABLE PERSONS UPDATE: THE ROLE OF ADULT PROTECTIVE SERVICES AND THE MEDICAID FRAUD CONTROL UNIT
Edna C. Clark, Program Administrator Senior Mississippi Department of Human Services/Division of Aging and Adult Services

Treasure R. Tyson, Esq., Special Assistant Attorney General/Director of Medicaid Fraud Control Unit

10:30 - 10:40 Break
10:40 - 11:40  UPDATE ON HEALTH CARE REFORM: NAILING JELL-O TO A TREE
Richard A. Courtney, Esq.,
CELA,

Frascogna Courtney, PLLC

11:40 - 12:40 All conferees are invited to a luncheon on the first floor of the Law Center in Room 1115.
12:40 - 1:40 tHE WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING; How CAN WE PROTECT ELDERLY WARDS IN MISSISSIPPI CONSERVATORSHIPS?
Panelists:
Barry K. Jones, Wise Carter Child & Caraway

David L. Calder, Visiting Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law

Catherine V. Kilgore, Esq., Elder Law Project Director, NMRLS

Judge Edwin H. Roberts, Jr., Eighteenth Chancery District of Mississippi

1:40 - 1:50  Break
1:50 - 2:50 A SAFE AND DECENT HOME: PRACTICAL PROBLEM SOLVING FOR LOW INCOME RENTERS

Desiree Hensley, Assistant Professor; Director of the Civil Legal Clinic; and Supervising Professor of the Low Income Housing Section, University of Mississippi School of Law

Carol Gish, Esq., Housing/Fair Housing Director, West Tennessee Legal Services

2:50 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 Ethics: THE LAWYER'S AND THE SOCIAL WORKER'S ROLE RELATED TO END OF LIFE DECISIONS
Tom Freeland, Esq. and
Joyce Freeland, Esq., Freeland and Freeland Law Firm, Oxford, MS
4:00- 4:10 Closing Remarks

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