Business Law Update

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Overview

This ALL-NEW course provides a fast-paced review of recent legal developments of particular interest to transactional lawyers.  Topics discussed include:

• New wrinkles on "choice of entity" in the wake of tax reform
• e-Contracts, e-signatures, and e-notaries
• New ethics pitfalls created by the use of new technologies in business transactions
• Tax reform: What we now understand about its implementation

Speaker(s)

William R Newman of The University of Southern Mississippi

Meeting Site

Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame & Museum

1152 Lakeland Drive (Just off I-55)

Jackson, MS  39216

Agenda for Monday, the 22nd of July 2019

(Agenda is approximate and tentative)

8:30am - 9:25am - The Era of Employer Compliance in Immigration Law

9:25am - 9:45am - Proposed New Overtime Laws

9:45am - 9:55am -  Break

9:55am - 10:15am - Tax Reform Update: What We've Learned in the Past Year

10:15am - 10:35am - Master & Servant in the Gig Economy 

10:35am - 10:50am - Internet Sales Tax?

10:50am - 10:55am -  Break

10:55am - 12:15pm - e-Contracts & e-Signatures

12:15pm - 1:30pm -  Lunch Break (on your own)

1:30pm - 2:35pm - Two Recent Developments in Copyright Law Potentially Affecting Small Businesses

2:35pm - 2:50pm -  Break

2:50pm - 3:15pm - "Dirty Words" as Trademarks

3:15pm - 4:15pm - The Intersection of Rule 1.1 & Rule 1.3 of The Rules of Ethics (ethics credit)