Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Section presents “Zooming Toward Advanced Mediation: A Series of Virtual CLEs”

The Mississippi Bar’s ADR Section presents “Zooming Toward Advanced Mediation: A Series of Virtual CLEs.” The four-part series will be conducted via zoom webinar. All sessions have been approved for credit as mediation training. Sessions pertaining to appellate mediation will satisfy or partially satisfy the requirements for appellate mediation training, depending on whether you have five years of experience as a mediator.

This is Session 3 (of 4 Sessions) and contains 2 chapters: “The Landscape of Mediation: A Judicial Perspective” and “Ethics Matter: A Conversation on Ethics in Mediation”.

This On Demand CLE video is a recording from the Appellate Practice Section's CLE seminar on January 13, 2021. Please see more information for the event below.

Title: The Year in Review: 2020 Criminal Law Case Update

Panelists:

·         Meta Copeland

·         Zakia Butler

Legislative Update - Spring 2021

Presented by the Business Law Section of The Mississippi Bar

Wednesday, April 28, 2021 – 8:30am to 11:30am

Agenda:

8:30am                         Start Time

8:35- 9:10am               Speaker Philip Gunn

9:10-9:55am                Leigh Janous, Office of the Secretary of State

9:55- 10:40am             David Maron, Chief Legal Counsel to Governor Reeves

10:45-11:30am            Senator Tyler McCaughn 

Navigating Life Settlements

This session will explore options for businesses, trustees and individuals to maximize the value of unwanted life insurance policies. You will be provided with details as to the sale process and income taxation of policy sale receipts. In addition, examples will be given from hundreds of life settlement transactions the presenters have done over the past seventeen years.

Topics: (1) What to do when—you do not have grounds for divorce, the judge will not rule, and you are not getting paid.  (2) How to handle domestic abuse orders—why you might not want to go there, where and when you should file them, and how to respond to the other party’s attorney’s fees for false allegations; and (3) Understanding Guardian Ad Litems—when you should ask for one, who you should ask for, what your appointment order should include, how to avoid hearsay problems, and how to handle GAL fees.

Topics: (1) Temporary hearing issues—time limits, chancellor vs. special matter, on/off the record, and the scope of what can be heard; Special considerations with irreconcilable differences divorces—what should you include in consents, how to approach discovery dilemmas, and when and how to waive or compel an 8.05); and (3) Less typical, but still important legal issues—surrogacy agreements, same-sex adoptions, and constitutional challenges to the irreconcilable differences divorce statute.

Mississippi’s Certificate of Need laws grant authority to the Department of Health to administer and supervise all state health planning and development responsibilities. This process places restrictions on certain health care activities in order to prevent unnecessary duplication of health resources and provide cost containment. The activities which require a certificate of need (CON) include the offering of certain designated health services, the development or establishment of new health care facilities, or the making of capital expenditures for health care projects in excess of designated limits. Free-market proponents are urging lawmakers to relax, update or remove these laws, claiming they are government barriers to patient care. This seminar will provide an overview of the CON process in Mississippi and differing views on its necessity. Panelists include attorneys Russ Latino, State Director of Americans for Prosperity and Richard Roberson, General Counsel for the Mississippi Hospital Association.

This On Demand CLE video is a recording from the Health Law Section's CLE seminar on April 9, 2021. Please see more information for the event below.

Health Care Law Update: Keeping Stride with Legal and Regulatory Changes

Chapters:

1) Medicare Fraud and Abuse Update – Jonell Beeler (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC)

2) Certificate of Need Program Update – Christin Williams (Director of the Officer of Health Policy and Planning, Mississippi State Department of Health) and Barry Cockrell (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC) 

3) Mississippi Legislative Update – Richard Roberson (General Counsel, Mississippi Hospital Association)

4) Employment Law Update – Nakimuli Davis-Primer (Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC)

5) Ethics Hour – Melissa S. Scott (Deputy General Counsel, The Mississippi Bar)

The Labor and Employment Law Section of The Mississippi Bar held its annual seminar on Thursday, June 17, 2021 virtually on Zoom. The 1.0 hour CLE credit was an ethics hour provided by Judge Keith Ball and Judge Taylor McNeel. The seminar featured topics ranging from thoughts and stories from the past year; any Local Civil Rules Committee news; and attorney practice in federal court with respect to settlement conferences, discovery, and motions. Please purchase this package to view a recording of the event.

How to Prepare Your Client For Deposition Testimony, For Trial Testimony, and For Mediation

Presented by the Litigation Section of The Mississippi Bar

BY: KEITH D. OBERT, ESQ. OBERT LAW GROUP, P.A.
Post Office Box 2081
Madison, Mississippi 39130-2081

750 Avignon Drive, Suite 1 Ridgeland, Mississippi 39157

Telephone: (601) 856-9690

Facsimile: (601) 856-9686

Email: obertlaw@bellsouth.net

Expungement Basics & Gun Rights

The 2019 amendment to the expungement statute has given Mississippi perhaps the most progressive expungement law in the nation. This seminar will guide you through the many nuances that you might encounter with this new law. Time will also be spent discussing restoration of gun rights via certificates of rehabilitation.