Texas has one of the lower senior population percentages in the country, around 14 percent, but the sheer size of the state means the raw number of Texans 65 and older is bigger than the entire population of many states. Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and Fort Worth alone represent an enormous and growing need for attorneys who understand Medicaid planning, guardianship and long term care. The Elder Law Coach helps Texas attorneys meet that need through one on one elder law coaching with Todd Whatley, delivered entirely by phone and video.
Law school covers Medicaid planning in passing, if at all, which leaves Texas attorneys to work out STAR+PLUS eligibility rules and spend down strategies largely on their own. Elder law coaching gives Texas attorneys a mentor who has already lived through those questions.
Todd has spent more than 25 years building and eventually selling his own elder law practice, and his coaching program leans on real fact patterns rather than theory. The market in Texas is enormous, which means opportunity, but it also means competition. Attorneys who invest in real training set themselves apart from firms that simply added an elder law page to their website.
Todd is a Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) who has personally built and sold four law practices. He has sat with more than 15,000 clients, trained close to a dozen attorneys who went on to earn CELA certification themselves, and spoken at more than 100 events on elder law and practice growth.
In his words: “I’ve spent years honing my career as a nationally recognized elder law attorney, mentoring younger lawyers along the way. Now I want to bring that experience to attorneys across the country, including Texas, who want to grow a confident, thriving elder law practice.”
That combination of legal depth and real business experience is what separates coaching from a typical CLE course.
Texas is a big state, and Todd built his coaching model around that reality. Sessions happen entirely by phone and video, so an attorney in El Paso or the Rio Grande Valley gets the same direct access as someone practicing in downtown Houston.
Premium Coaching combines a full library of forms, slide decks and training content with two or more one on one calls each month, plus direct access to Todd’s cell phone. Elite Coaching adds weekly calls and scheduled in office visits, built for Texas attorneys ready to transform a practice that already exists.
Elder law attorney training with Todd covers Medicaid planning, VA benefits, guardianship, trust work and the business side of running a firm built around aging clients. Texas runs long term care Medicaid largely through STAR+PLUS, administered by the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, and coaching includes help applying Todd’s core planning strategies to the rules Texas attorneys actually work under.
This is also where Todd functions as an elder law consultant. Some Texas attorneys call about one complicated STAR+PLUS fact pattern. Others stay in coaching for years, using every new case as a reason to check their thinking against his.
Legal skill is only half the equation in a market as competitive as Texas. Todd also works as an attorney business coach, helping Texas attorneys with marketing, intake, staffing and the daily decisions that separate a growing practice from one that plateaus.
If you have been searching for how to grow an elder law practice in Texas, this business side is exactly where most training programs stop. Todd built and sold four practices himself, so his guidance comes from someone who has actually run a firm through that growth, not someone who studied it. Attorneys chasing elder law business mastery coaching, not just legal education, tend to choose Elite Coaching, where Todd works alongside you more like an of counsel partner than a course instructor.
A CLE course teaches you the law as it exists today. Elder law mentorship helps you apply it again and again as your caseload grows and the rules shift under you. That ongoing relationship, not a single day of instruction, is what sets The Elder Law Coach apart from a weekend seminar.
Attorneys who work through Todd’s programs come away sharper on Medicaid fact patterns, steadier in front of families in crisis, and clearer on how to build a practice that can carry that growth for years.
No. Every session happens by phone or video, so Texas attorneys from Dallas to a small border town practice get the same access without leaving the office.
No. Premium Coaching suits attorneys transitioning into elder law for the first time, while Elite Coaching is built for established Texas practices ready to grow further.
CLE courses teach you the law. Coaching applies it to real client situations and helps you build the business behind it, with ongoing access to Todd rather than a single seminar day.
Todd’s coaching is built on core Medicaid and elder law planning principles that apply nationwide, then helps you layer in the rules specific to Texas, including how STAR+PLUS and the Texas Health and Human Services Commission handle eligibility and long term care benefits.
If you are ready to move past wondering how to grow an elder law practice and start actually building one, book a free consultation. Todd will talk through where your Texas practice stands today and which coaching level fits where you want to take it.
