10 Must-Attend Legal Marketing, Business Development and Tech Conferences

Both experienced and new legal marketing, business development, and technology professionals need to continually learn about the latest trends and find ways to do their jobs more effectively. Conferences offer the perfect opportunity to soak up lots of knowledge and networking in a condensed block of time. Here are ten we recommend you add to your calendar.

Legal Marketing Association Southeast
Sep 13, 2017
Charlotte, NC

This regional LMA event – an offshoot of the annual LMA conference – will focus on Mapping the Future. Look for Introhive to find out how CRM automation and relationship intelligence can take your marketing and business development efforts to new levels.

Legal Marketing Tech Conference Midwest
Sep 25-26, 2017, Chicago, IL

The Legal Marketing Technology Conferences are the largest conferences dedicated to technologies used by law firms to identify, attract and support clients. At this LMATech Midwest conference, the theme is Collaboration That Works.

And be sure to attend the session being co-presented by Introhive’s Adam Stewart and Alycia Sutor of GrowthPlay as they help attendees understand how to maximize the impact of their relationship mining and building efforts.

London Law Expo/European Legal Security Forum 2017
Oct 10, 2017
London, England

Billed as Europe’s largest law expo, the London Law Expo / European Legal Security Forum 2017 expects an estimated 2,000 visitors from legal practice management, technology and IT security. In one day, the event promises 6 presentation stages, 70 expert speakers, covering a wide array of topics, issues and opportunities to help law firms and legal businesses improve their overall performance, profitability and IT security.

Join Introhive’s Jason Plant as he leads the way on the Introhive Innovation Stage, guiding expert speakers through explorations of current systems, processes and solutions available for the profession and the future lawyer.

Legal Week Strategic Technology Forum USA 2017
October 11-13, 2017
San Diego, CA

Called the defining legal technology event in Europe for over 10 years, 2017 marks the second gathering of this forum in North America. This event gathers pioneers in legal technology along with C-level and other senior stakeholders and partners to explore the intersection of business strategy and technology and process innovation in law firms.

Law Firm Marketing Summit
Nov 7, 2017
London, England

This summit is billed as the leading forum in Europe for senior business development and marketing professionals in the legal industry. The one-day event around leading industry experts who advise on how to address current market challenges and how to improve strategic planning and marketing implementation.

Legaltech
Jan 30-Feb 1, 2018
New York, New York

Promising more than 10,000 attendees, over 200 speakers and 10+ education tracks, Legaltech East is attended by 88% of the AMLaw 100 each year. The three reasons they give to attend:

• Learn how the industry’s most successful firms are preparing for the future, with insight on alternatives to traditional legal service providers
• Discover tools to harness the benefits of cloud-based process automation by 2020 and beyond
• Understand how millennials and the new landscape of the legal workforce are affecting expectations regarding data privacy and security

Legal Marketing Tech Conference West
Jan 31-Feb 1, 2018
San Francisco, CA

The sister event to Legal Marketing Tech Conference East, this one is also dedicated to technologies used by law firms to identify, attract and support clients. Through breakout sessions, TED-Style talks, in-depth workshops, and power demos, presenters will explore current trends in legal marketing technologies.

ABA TECHSHOW
Mar 7-10, 2018
Chicago, IL

The ABA TECHSHOW Conference and EXPO brings is where lawyers and legal professionals learn about the most useful, practical technologies available. In the EXPO Hall, attendees get access to more than 100 legal technology vendors and their products and services.

2018 Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference
April 9-11, 2018
New Orleans, LA

This annual event will bring together 1,500 professionals to digest three days of educational sessions covering the latest issues and challenges affecting legal marketing and business development professionals.

ILTACON 2018
Aug 19-23, 2018
National Harbor, MD

At the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, attendees will hear experts cover examples and provide practical takeaways they can apply to the challenges and opportunities facing them. Speakers are still being added, but 30 sessions have already been confirmed, along with Brian Kuhn, co-creator of IBM Watson Legal, as a keynote speaker.

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