This website, with 900 pages of information and growing every week, is now a decade old and, we are proud to assert, one of the richest resources of legal information for seniors, people with disabilities and their families, caretakers and lawyers. But we are far from the only source of elder law information, and this seems like an appropriate time to mention a few of our favorite elder law websites.

Our website is built around our weekly newsletters, which started as a one-page faxed message and migrated to the internet. The idea was not original to us. Our first newsletters were modeled on the good work of our colleague Baird Brown from Grand Junction, Colorado, and Baird’s newsletter is not only still going strong but has expanded to a collection of online stories. You can read about Baird and his partner Billie Castle at the Brown & Castle website, and see the current Brown & Castle, PC newsletter collection at their separate newsletter site.

Long-time colleague and friend Tim Takacs, in Hendersonville and Cookeville, Tennessee, has been sending out his weekly newsletter since December of 1995. You can read—or subscribe to—his offerings on Tim's website.

Moving east, Virginia elder law attorneys Andy Hook and his partner Bill Oast have published their excellent weekly newsletter for a “mere” eight years. Read or subscribe at the Oast & Hook website.

There are, of course, other newsletter offerings online. Some are primarily promotional, some more commercial than others. The few selected here stand out as labors of love, envisioned by their authors as free resources with an emphasis on providing information rather than promoting a product.

Informational websites focusing on elder law also abound. Lisa Davis, co-author of The Elder Law Answer Book, provides extensive information about public benefits, estate and tax planning. David Goldfarb and his partners at Goldfarb Abrandt Salzman & Kutzman, LLP in New York have an impressive website filled with useful information. California lawyer Stephen Dale provides a wealth of information, with particular emphasis on special needs trusts, dealing with disabilities, and (as his website title proclaims), achieving independence.

The National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (NAELA) includes not only general legal information but also an opportunity to search for an elder law attorney by city or by zip code. Though the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) is not known primarily for its elder law orientation (more of its members practice high-end tax-driven estate planning than "elder law"), it boasts a useful compendium of elder law materials as part of its online library.

At least two publications for lawyers provide a more scholarly and detailed approach—though both are available only by subscription. Aspen Publishers (they also publish The Elder Law Answer Book) has produced The Elder Law Report, with Massachusetts elder law pioneer Harry Margolis at the helm, for nearly two decades. Subscriptions are $220/year. The Elder Law Journal, a law review published at the University of Illinois College of Law, is available for a mere $25/year.

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