Top 10 New Trends in Law Practice for 2016
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Overview
An all-new 2016 edition of our annual look at some of the biggest recent changes in the law & law practice! Presented in a fast-paced manner, with an emphasis on "what you need to know." Topics discussed include:
- Emerging hot new areas of law practice
- Crowdsourcing and crowdfunding: What's the law on them? How do they impact your clients?
- New technologies
- Immigration law developments: How do they affect your business clients?
- Free speech vs. civil rights
- The ethics of online marketing
- Much more!
Speaker(s)
Meeting Site
Delta State University
Alumni Foundation House
1003 West Sunflower (Highway 8)
Cleveland, MS
Agenda for Wednesday, the 13th of July 2016
Agenda is Approximate and Tentative
8:00am - 8:30am - Registration
8:30am - 9:15am - #1 - Immigration Law Developments - An area of increasing importance
9:15am - 9:35am - #2 - Cloud Computing for Lawyers - The benefits and perils of the latest technology trend
9:35am - 10:00am - #3 - The Streamlining of Civil Litigation - The recent amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are just the latest chapter in the quickening pace of lawsuits
10:00am - 10:15am - Break
10:15am - 10:40am - #4 - Paralegals Re-Imagined - The future holds an expanding role for legal assistants
10:40am - 11:10am - #5 - Family Law: "Conscious Uncoupling" - Is it a fad or a game-changer?
11:10am - 11:45am - #6 - Crowdfunding - What is it? Can it help your clients? What are the rules?
11:45am - 1:00pm - Lunch Break (on your own)
1:00pm - 1:40pm - #7 - Increasing Specialization and Emerging New Areas of Practice - How about a practice in "fashion law"?
1:40pm - 2:30pm - *Update on Some of Last Year's "Top 10" Trends - New developments regarding drones, ObamaCare, and the generation gap
2:30pm - 2:45pm - Break
2:45pm - 3:00pm - #8 - Recalibration of the Parameters of Free Speech - Changing social norms are impacting our definitions of free speech
3:00pm - 3:15pm - #9 - Virtual Reality for Lawyers - Wishing you were here!
3:15pm - 4:15pm - #10 - Online Marketing for Lawyers (ethics hour)