Mississippi (MS) Law Practice Management CLE Course Catalog

Communicating with clients, counsel, prospective clients and others is important to the success of a firm, and good communication can avoid liability and bar complaints. This program assists attorneys in understanding the problems and improving the nature and substance of their communications, no matter their practice area.

Join speakers Dave Ries and Sherri Davidoff as they dive into ransomware. They will discuss what ransomware is, what to do if your firm is the victim of an attack, and best practices to prevent an attack.

The impact of climate change has been hard to ignore within the past two years. From floods to fires, air pollution to plastic pollution, these problems have not and are unlikely to evaporate anytime soon. In 2020, businesses have had to consider their own social responsibility to these emerging challenges. With these issues continuing to escalate and consumers demanding better, many businesses must take action now. In this session, we will explore how you can take control of your ESG data narrative to drive a positive impact on the environment.

Corporate teams are facing pressure to reduce e-discovery costs but many don’t know where to begin. To shed some light on the subject, our in-house panel will review the personnel, productivity, and financial impact of key process changes, such as automating data preservations and reviewing matters in-house.

No one could have anticipated that 2020 would be the year that the legal profession went fully virtual. In 2019, we talked as if this was 10 years away. Today, legal departments, law firms and courts all across the world have embraced and implemented these technologies and new working practices. This transformative shift for the legal profession has brought new opportunities and risks for General Counsel. The imposing privacy risks have been quick to appear, but should this impede the move to virtual? In this new digital age, what are the key privacy challenges and how can we tackle these so they do not impede the digital movement?

Legal advice is the minimum that a General Counsel should provide to the business. They must also be able to provide advice on a whole range of scenarios and situations from commercial to operational and financial. In this session, we will explore the ever-expanding role of the General Counsel and how you can see these challenges as opportunities up the ladder.

In this session we will break down the key risks exposed by remote work and how cloud-based, automated contract management can help legal teams.

This program is for 0-3 year attorneys who have never experienced transactional law (and maybe even never worked in a law office) to rethink the "litigation-first" perspective that gets ingrained during law school. For a large number of law students interested in working with business transactions, as in-house counsel, in IP prosecution, licensing, etc., we want to provide guidance for what you should be thinking about on your first day of an internship, your first day at a job, or your first day running your own firm. These are tips to distinguish yourself on your first day even if you don't have any direct transactional experience.

In this program, Dr. Brian Russell, clinical psychologist and practicing attorney, will discuss how "psychobabble" can affect a case and offers some tips on how to spot it and what to do to stop it.">In this program, Dr. Brian Russell, clinical psychologist and practicing attorney, will discuss how "psychobabble" can affect a case and offers some tips on how to spot it and what to do to stop it.