Legal and Practical Issues Involved with End of Life Planning, Care and Decisions – Dilemmas and Advice for Attorneys
Date: Apr 10, 2026 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick, and Online
Member Price: $177.00
Non-Member Price: $209.00
Section Price: $0.00
Areas of Law: Estate Law, For All Attorneys, Health
Earn up to 4.5 credits! (More Information)
Keynote
Moderator
- Margaret J. Davino, Esq.
- Fox Rothschild LLP, Lawrenceville
Presenters
- Elizabeth Brennan
- Assistant Vice President Post-Acute Care, New Jersey Hospital Association, Princeton
- Julia E. Cassidy, Esq.
- Associate General Counsel, Englewood Hospital, Summit
- Lori Feldstein
- CEO, Goals of Care Coalition of New Jersey
- Keith L. Hovey, Esq.
- Deputy General Counsel, Cooper University Healthcare, Camden
Presented in Cooperation with the NJSBA Health Law Section and the Goals of Care Coalition, New Jersey
End of life decisions can be gripping and difficult. Join members of the NJSBA Health Law Section and the Goals of Care Coalition, New Jersey for a half day End of Life Conference that brings together attorneys and medical professionals who will provide you with legal and practical advice for planning for end of life of life decision-making. This conference is perfect for health care attorneys, wills and trust attorneys, general practice attorneys, healthcare professionals involved with end of life care, and anyone who wishes to plan for end of life care for themselves or family.
Topics include:
- An overview of the law including:
- How to maximize the chance that your wishes will be followed at the end of life (answer – advance directives and POLST)
- What happens when someone can’t make their own medical decisions
- The law on Advance directives and POLST orders (Physicians Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment, whereby someone has their doctor write advance orders specifying the types of medical treatment they want to receive during serious illness)
- Organ donation and the difference between brain death and cardiac death - Video regarding advanced directives with moderated discussion
- Medical guardianships and the ombudsman/public guardian role
- Ethics committees and their role if a patient’s family wants more care than recommended by a hospital, disagreements between family members as to care, decision-making for patients with no family, etc.
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