Top 10 New Developments in Law Practice for 2018
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Overview
An all-new 2018 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."
All-new topics in this year's course include:
- Tax reform for the non-tax lawyer: What it means for your clients and your law firm
- Harassment & Discrimination law: A primer
- Gun Law: The evolving law of firearms
- Internet contracts and e-signatures: The new law
- Family law developments: School football as an issue in custody
- Litigation update
- State Stipends to lawyers who practice in under-served counties and fields of law
- Update on Top 10 Trends from past years: drones, the gig economy, etc.
- Ethics: New law on extra-jurisdictional practice and the unauthorized practice of law
Speaker(s)
Meeting Site
Courtyard Marriott - Gulfport Beachfront
1600 East Beach Boulevard
Gulfport, Mississippi 39501
(On Highway 90 - just east of Highway 49)
Agenda for Thursday, the 19th of July 2018
Agenda is Approximate and Tentative
All times are Central
Seminar Presenter: William R. Newman, Esq. of Hattiesburg
8:00am - 8:30am - Registration
8:30am - 9:40am - #1 - Tax Reform: What it means for your clients and your law firm
9:40am - 10:00am - #2 - Family Law: School football participation as an issue in custody
10:00am - 10:15am - Break
10:15am - 11:15am - #3 - Harassment & Discrimination Law: A Primer
11:15am - 12:00pm - #4 - Litigation Update
12:00pm - 1:15pm - Lunch Break (on your own)
1:15pm - 1:35pm - #5 - Update on "Top 10 Trends" from past years (drone law, the "gig economy," and more)
1:35pm - 2:05pm - #6 - Internet Contracts & e-Signatures: The new law
2:05pm - 2:20pm - #7 - Gun Law: Changing law in changing times?
2:20pm - 2:35pm - Break
2:35pm - 3:00pm - #8 - Blockchain & Cryptocurrency: Unraveling the mystery
3:00pm - 3:15pm - #9 - Proposed stipends for lawyers working in under-served places and areas of law: Will it work?
3:15pm - 4:15pm - #10 - Ethics: New Law on Extra-Jurisdictional Practice and Technological Competence