Top 10 New Trending Topics in Law Practice for 2025

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Overview

11th Annual Course of Study

An all-new 2025 edition of our annual look at some of the biggest new trends in the law & law practice!  Presented in a fast-paced manner, with an emphasis on "what you need to know."  

A variety of topics will be covered, including new developments in litigation practice, transactional law practice, and ethics.  

Level of Instruction

Intermediate

Speaker(s)

William R Newman of The University of Southern Mississippi

Meeting Site

The Lyric Hotel West End District Clubhouse

1300 Highway 8 West

Cleveland, MS

Agenda for Thursday, the 10th of July 2025

(Agenda is approximate and tentative)

8:00am - 8:30am:  Registration

8:30am - 9:55am:  #1) "Collaborative Practice" comes to Mississippi, #2) Injury Litigation involving Uber, Doordash, and other gig industries, #3) The "paralegal practitioner" movement gains steam (update).

9:55am - 10:10am:  Break

10:10am - 11:45am:  #4) The rapidly changing rules for law school admission and bar admission across the nation (update), #5) The aftershocks of Loper Bright, #6) The changing landscape of real estate sales. 

11:45am - 1:00pm:  Lunch Break (on your own)

1:00pm - 2:20pm:  #7) Litigation funding under scrutiny, #8) The big, gigantic, enormous new tax laws.

2:20pm - 2:35pm:  Break

2:35pm - 3:15pm:  #9) "Transfer on Death" Deeds: The latest fad in estate planning.

3:15pm - 4:15pm:  #10) Ethics and the pervasive new technologies that could overwhelm law practices.