For the second year in a row, I was an Exhibitor at the Life After 50 Expo yesterday at the Baton Rouge River Center. Thousands of people attended. It was another tremendous success.
Laura Bittel and I went to the River Center with our signs and banners for setup. It went pretty smooth. We had hundreds of living will forms so that people could sign their living will for free at the Expo.
Saturday morning came and a rush of people flooded the River Center. Stephanie called me on my cell to let me know she and Laura were stuck in traffic. I was in a bind for a moment because a Louisiana Living Will must be witnessed by two people and I was the only person in my booth. However, Laura and Steph showed up shortly after 8:00am.
The folks at WBRZ and The Advocate were kind enough to allow me to present a seminar in the biggest room at the best time slot. At 9:00am, there was a room full of people to hear my presentation about Louisiana estate planning. I answered a few questions from the crowd about how often you should review your estate plan, how to leave an inheritance to a special education child, and how to leave a bequest to a church or charity. WBRZ's John Pastorek gave me a great introduction and got the crowd fired up (or at least as fired up as one can get for an estate planning presentation)!
During the presentation, I promised all of the attendees that they could go to my booth to get a free copy of my book, "Estate Planning in Louisiana," and to get their free living will signed. When I got back to the booth, there was a massive crowd of folks waiting for their book and living will.
Stephanie, Laura, and I worked through the crowd at our booth for the next three hours until it finally started to slow down. We saw many of our outstanding clients, and we met many new people some of which will no doubt call our office to come in to schedule their No Cost Initial Meeting. We answered hundreds of questions about estate planning.
It was a good day. If you have questions about estate planning, feel free to contact me at paul@rabalaislaw.com, and I'll see if I can help.
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