Legal Research

"Retirement Planning Guide for Boomer Lawyers (and Law Librarians)"

Posted by Joe Hodnicki: "A quarter-million Boomer lawyers are expected to start retiring by 2011. Lawyers at Midlife: Laying the Grouwndwork for the Road Ahead by Michael Long, John Clyde and Pat Funk offers them a detailed guide for retirement that includes a set of resources, information, and planning tools. Lawyers at Midlife considers such issues as

• Your vision of retirement and whether you and your spouse or partner share the same vision
• Your strategy for building and preserving financial resources for retirement
• Your current retirement assets and whether they are invested in the most beneficial ways to achieve your retirement goals
• How to navigate the Medicare maze
• How to develop an estate plan, an "encore career," and how to close one's law practice.

Lawyers at Midlife is not one of those feel-good self-help retirement books. The authors are well-versed in the field. Michael Long, JD/MSW, is responsible for developing retirement-planning assistance and programming for the Oregon Attorney Assistance Program. John Clyde, a certified financial planner, has conducted retirement workshops for thousands of state employees in the Pacific Northwest, and Pat Funk is a financial planning professional who conducts seminars for legal professionals preparing for their financial transition into retirement. While targeting lawyers as their audience, Boomer law librarians may also benefit from a close reading of the work."

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Full post as published by Stark County Law Library Blawg on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).