Laurie Anne Hanson
Northwoods Law Group, P.A.
Laurie Hanson practiced law from 1984 to 2024, with a special focus on persons aging and living with disabilities. She concentrated her practice exclusively in the areas of trusts (including supplemental needs, special needs, and pooled trusts), estate planning, planning for incapacity and surrogate decision-making, government benefits eligibility including Medical Assistance, SSI, veterans benefits, SNAP, and public housing), and probate.
Laurie regularly served as faculty and made presentations on elder law and special needs law topics at continuing legal education courses for attorneys through the Minnesota State Bar Association. In addition, she gave presentations to nursing home family councils, church groups, support groups, community groups, and law schools in the Twin Cities.
- Elder Law
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship Estate Administration, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Social Security Disability
- Does Not Currently Practice Law
- Not Currently Accepting Clients
- Arkansas
- Arkansas Judiciary
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- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 114916
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- Minnesota
- Minnesota Supreme Court
- ID Number: 0209132
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- English: Spoken, Written
- Of Counsel
- Northwoods Law Group, P.A.
- Current
- Golden Gate University School of Law
- J.D. (1984) | Law
- Activities: Member of the law review and Editor-in-Chief of the Women’s Law Forum.
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- University of Wisconsin - Madison
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- National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys
- Member
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- Minnesota State Bar Association
- Member
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- Minnesota Lavender Bar Association
- Member
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- Hennepin County Bar Association
- Member
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- Special Needs Alliance
- Member
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