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About the Seminar
Since the economic downturn of 2008, there have been a tremendous amount of changes to the legal and business communities. It's a buyer's market for legal services which has resulted in increased demands from clients, that includes greater efficiencies, the ability to provide unique and targeted legal services, alternative pricing models and active participation by clients in organization, staffing, scheduling and pricing of legal matters. Competition continues to increase from alternative legal providers, accounting firms and consulting firms are steadily growing. Lawyers that do not understand these changes or how to provide strategic and market differentiated legal services will find themselves having to manage long-term viability.
Further, the business client has changed and matured since 2008, they are more legal savvy, involved and sophisticated with increased demands and expectations. The current economy is being driven from the small to mid-sized businesses (SMB) and generally defined in SC as 1 to 500 employees or less than $500 million in revenues. In South Carolina an analysis of manufacturing companies with $5 million in revenues or greater resulted in over 900 companies identified with about 1 ½ the companies with revenues under $15 million and the other ½ between $15 million and $1.1 billion. About 300 of these companies fell into 5 industries, there is a significant foreign presence in the companies and the legal need of these companies is becoming greater with growth.
This seminar is to provide you with information about understanding this economic engine of South Carolina, its legal needs, how to distinguish yourself with these companies and how to provide legal services to your clients in the context of the legal market becoming more targeted to particular practice areas.
Seminar Agenda
The Midsized Business Environment in SC
Grant Allard - Wynit
Economic Development in SC
Elizabeth Feather
John Lummus
Upstate Alliance
Immigration: Key Issues for the Business Community
Melissa Azallion - McNair Law Firm
IP for Non-IP Lawyers
Doug Kim - McNair Law Firm
In-house Council Perspective
Elizabeth “Babs” H. Warner - Santee Cooper
Claire Gagnon - ScanSource
Stefania Bondurant - Flame Spray
Theft of Trade/Business Secrets
Doug Hemminghaus - FBI
101 Accounting for Lawyers and the Basics of Business Valuation
Catherine Stoddard - Dixon Hughes Goodman, LLP
Ethics for Business Law Practitioners
Jill C. Rothstein - SC Bar - Risk Management Director
Mandatory MCLE Credit Hours
This seminar qualifies for 6.0 MCLE credit hours, including up to 0.5 LEPR credit hours.
This seminar is a Basic to Intermediate Level Program.
Note: When submitting your compliance reports to the SC Commission on CLE and Specialization, if you completed this in 2020, please use this course code: 201134ADO
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