Kathy Motley of Law Elder Law is scheduled to speak at both the Kane County Bar Paralegal Meeting October 19th and the Illinois Paralegal Association Fall Education Conference in Chicago on November 3, 2011.
Other 2011 NIU alumni award recipients were: Mark D. Gilwit, Esquire, Alumnus of the Year; Honorable Renee L. Robinson (posthumously), Outstanding Service Award; Honorable Ronald G. Matekaitis, Distinguished Service Award; Mrs. Betty DeGunther, Honorary Law Alumna Award; Chief Justice Thomas L. Kilbridge, Public Service Award; and Rachel Hernandez Hoag, Esquire, Mentor of the Year Award.
For more information on the recipients and their awards, click here.
“It is interesting how the government names things,” says Rick Law, founder of Law Elder Law, an estate and elder law firm in Aurora, Ill. “They give things attractive names, so it is the Affordable Care Act even though it is anything but that. When you think about the layers of administrative mandates and bureaucracies, it can’t possibly be about affordable care. It has other agendas, it only has the name. There is no way it can reduce the cost, so the question becomes was it ever meant to reduce the costs or to make it impossible for the private sector to compete? Is an ulterior motive for some of what is going to layered into the Band-Aids that private insurers will not be affordable so [consumers] will go to the government exchange?”Later in the article, Mr. Law voiced his concern about the purposed government insurance voucher program:
“The government is saying, ‘don’t worry, we are going to be give you vouchers and you can go out and buy all the insurance you want,'” Law says. “But the public is asking, ‘Who is going to sell us the insurance?’ People are quite distrustful that they are going to be able to buy coverage.”
Attorney Gina Salamone of Law Elder Law LLP was married to Shaun Callahan on August 21, 2010 in Oakbrook, IL. Shaun, who is also an attorney, met Gina in law school at a friend’s bbq. After several years together, Shaun decided to propose. Using Gina’s much loved cat, Ginger, as an accomplice, Shaun proposed via a jeweled cat collar around Ginger’s neck that read “Marry Me Gina”. The couple now lives in Aurora, IL (along with Ginger). They plan to honeymoon in Barcelona, Spain this fall. Everyone at Law Elder Law wishes them congratulations!