Evan H. Farr, Certified Elder Law Attorney and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys Council of Advanced Practitioners, regularly teaches continuing legal education programs on elder law, Medicaid planning, estate planning, asset protection, special needs planning, and legal ethics.
Upcoming Continuing Legal Education Seminars
Elder Law and Asset Protection Essentials
Date: Friday, September 18, 2026
Format: Live webinar
Sponsor: National Business Institute
This full-day program addresses the legal and practical issues that arise when advising older clients and their families. Evan Farr will present the legal ethics segment, including clients with diminishing capacity, client communications, reporting elder abuse and neglect, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and joint representation.
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Estate Planning: New Laws, Old Tools, and the Changes You Need to Make
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2026
Format: Live webinar
Sponsor: National Business Institute
This program examines recent changes affecting estate planning practice and the revisions attorneys should consider making to their planning strategies and documents. Evan Farr is a member of the faculty.
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Courses Available On Demand
The following recorded programs are currently offered for purchase by their course providers. Credit availability depends on the purchaser’s jurisdiction and the provider’s current accreditation information.
Elder Law and Asset Protection Essentials
Recorded: April 25, 2025
Sponsor: National Business Institute
Evan Farr presents the legal ethics segment on clients with diminishing capacity, client communications, reporting elder abuse and neglect, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, and joint representation.
Step-by-Step Guide to Drafting Wills and Trusts in Virginia
Recorded: May 21, 2025
Sponsor: National Business Institute
Evan Farr presents the ethics segment addressing client identification, diminished capacity, lawyers acting as fiduciaries, practice before the IRS, and conflicts of interest.
Recorded: November 13, 2024
Sponsor: National Business Institute
Program length: Approximately six hours
This program integrates long-term care planning, Medicaid eligibility and asset protection, wills and trusts, estate administration, estate recovery, tax planning, and legal ethics.
Legal Ethics of Representing Aging Clients
Recorded: October 31, 2024
Sponsor: National Business Institute
This ethics program examines the professional-responsibility issues that arise when representing older clients, including capacity, communication, confidentiality, conflicts, undue influence, and elder abuse.
Recorded: July 14, 2022
Sponsor: Strafford, now offered through BARBRI
Evan Farr provides an in-depth analysis of Medicaid resource and income eligibility, IRAs and annuities, asset transfers, Medicaid asset protection trusts, long-term care insurance, and other planning techniques used to fund long-term care.
Selected Past Professional Seminars
The following programs are included as a record of Evan Farr’s prior teaching engagements. No purchase or registration link is shown unless the provider currently offers the course.
2025
- Medicaid Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
- Estate Planning: New Laws, Old Tools, and the Changes You Need to Make — National Business Institute
2024
- Asset Protection for Veterans Aid & Attendance — D.C. Bar
- Estate Planning for Military Veterans — National Business Institute
- Medicaid Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
2023
- Medicaid Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
2022
- Mastering Medicaid & Veterans Asset Protection Planning — Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys UnProgram
- Medicaid Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
2021
- Issues and Problems When Funding Medicaid and Veterans Irrevocable Asset Protection Trusts — Virginia Academy of Elder Law Attorneys UnProgram
2020
- Medicaid Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
- Medicaid Asset Protection and Medicaid Asset Protection Trusts — Alzheimer’s Foundation of America Educating America Tour
2019
- Medicaid Nuts and Bolts — Maryland State Bar Association
- Structuring Special Needs Trusts as IRA Beneficiaries — Strafford
- Estate Planning from A to Z — National Business Institute
- Asset Protection Planning for Medicaid and Veterans Benefits — American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education
2018
- Retirement and Disability Planning: SSI, SSDI, Medicaid, VA, and More — National Business Institute
- Medicaid Planning and Veterans’ Benefits Planning — Federal Bar Association
- Protecting Assets While Qualifying for Medicaid — National Business Institute
- Medicaid and Veterans Lookback Rules and Planning — National Business Institute
- Medicaid and Veterans Asset Protection — D.C. Bar
2013–2016
- Protecting Assets While Qualifying for Medicaid — National Business Institute
- Medicaid Asset Protection Planning: Tips and Strategies for Estate Planners and Advisors — American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education
- Estate Planning from A to Z — National Business Institute
- Divorce in Medicaid Planning — National Business Institute
- Veterans Benefits Planning: The New Lookback and Net Worth Rules — National Business Institute
- Using Trusts in Medicaid and Veterans Asset Protection Planning — National Business Institute and myLaw CLE
- Asset Protection for the Middle Class: Using Income-Only Trusts for True Asset Protection — American Law Institute Continuing Legal Education
- Using the Living Trust Plus® for Medicaid and Veterans Asset Protection Planning — myLaw CLE
Selected Programs Before 2013
- Trusts 101 — National Business Institute
- Medicaid, Medicare & Social Security — National Business Institute
- Qualifying for Medicaid Long-Term Care Programs — National Business Institute
- Resolving Legal and Financial Issues in Elder Care — National Business Institute
- Reverse Mortgages from an Elder Perspective: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly — National Business Institute
- Asset Protection for the Middle Class: Strategies for Estate Planners — National Constitution Center
- Using Income-Only Trusts to Qualify for Public Benefits — National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
- Long-Term Care Insurance: What Is It and Who Needs It? — Virginia CLE
- Funding a Special Needs Trust: How Much Is Enough? — National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
- Medicaid Practice and Appeals — National Business Institute
- Virginia Medicaid Waiver — National Business Institute
- Trigger Provisions Creating Special Needs Trusts — National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
Fundamentals of Elder Law — National Business Institute