Top 10 New Trends for Lawyers in 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
• Crowdfunding:  What's the law on it?   How might it affect your clients?
• New technologies, including cloud computing
• Paralegals re-imagined
• "Family Wizard" websites in custody & visitation cases
• Immigration law developments: How do they impact your business clients?
• The recalibration of free speech rights
• Virtual reality technology in the courtroom
• New streamlined rules for federal civil practice
• Update on last year's trends, including the law of drones!
• The ethics of online marketing
• Much more!
• New 7-hour format:  Earn all 15 hours of CLE for the year by attending this In-Person seminar along with an 8-hour bundle of On-Demand CLE (see "CLE On-Demand" page of this website for information on On-Demand CLE courses).

Speaker(s)

William R Newman of The University of Southern Mississippi

Meeting Site

Nashville School of Law

4013 Armory Oaks Drive

Nashville, TN  37204-4577

Agenda for Thursday, the 22nd of December 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 - 10:10am - Break

10:10am - 10:40am - #4 - Paralegals Re-Imagined - The future holds an expanding role for legal assistants 

10:40am -  11:10am - #5 - Family Law: "Conscious Uncoupling" and "Family Wizards" in Custody Cases -  Are they mere fads -- or game-changers?

11:10am - 11:45am - #6 - Crowdfunding - What is it?  Can it help your clients?  What are the rules?

11:45am  -  12:55pm -  Lunch Break (on your own)

12:55pm  -  1:15pm -  #7 - Increasing Specialization and Emerging New Areas of Practice -  How about a practice in "fashion law"?

1:15pm  -  1:50pm -  *Update on Some of Last Year's "Top 10" Trends -  New developments regarding drones, ObamaCare, and the generation gap

1:50pm  - 2:15pm - #8 - Recalibration of the Parameters of Free Speech - Changing social norms are impacting our definitions of free speech

2:15pm -  2:25pm  -  Break

2:25pm -  3:00pm - #9 - Virtual Reality for Lawyers - Wishing you were here!

3:00pm -  4:00pm - #10 - Digital Marketing for Lawyers (ethics credit) 

4:00pm -  5:00pm  -  (*Bonus Ethics Hour) The Ethics of E-Mails