For GCs and in-house counsels, missing key events isn’t just a missed opportunity—it can also mean losing potential clients and valuable connections.
With 2025 just around the corner, now is the perfect time to start fresh!
Let’s prepare your calendar to make sure you’re on top of every major event and can plan your schedules seamlessly. Stay ahead of the curve and make 2025 your most organized and successful year yet!
Let’s dive in and explore the events you should consider attending, arranged in chronological order of their happening, making it easy for you to plan and prioritize your schedule.
#1 SpotDraft Summit
The SpotDraft Summit ’25 provides you with a perfect place to ask how AI can be incorporated within your organization, explore next-generation AI legal tools and know how they will help you, strategize the right way to craft your policies, and, of course, make connections!
What You Can Expect:
- Practical use cases for legal teams
- Engagement with advanced AI tools in the legal industry
- Discover how AI can support you and your team
- Get insights from legal industry experts
- Strategize and prepare your team for AI legal tools
- Networking
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Stay tuned for more details!
We can't wait to show you how SpotDraft can transform the way your organization manages contracts.
Date: February 28, 2025
Venue: San Fransisco
#2 ALM Legalweek
ALM Legalweek is one of the premier events in the legal tech sector, designed to satisfy your craving for cutting-edge insights. It’s a 4-Day Conference where participants engage in an array of sessions, which provides you with the latest legal knowledge, strategies, and technologies shaping legal operations, business strategies, litigation, data science, and more.
What You Can Expect:
- Educational sessions
- Workshop boot camps
- Case studies
- TED-style talks
- Panel discussions
This year, you might have an extra reason to be excited: Rob Lowe, (Hollywood Icon, Actor, Producer, Director, and New York Times Bestselling Author) will be one of the keynote speakers.
Date: March 24-27, 2025
Venue: New York
#3 ABA TECHSHOW
ABA TECHSHOW is a Conference and EXPO where lawyers, legal professionals, and technology come together. It's a 4-day conference, where you’ll have the chance to explore the most practical and innovative tools available today.
What You Can Expect:
- Continuing Legal Education (CLE) sessions
- Get exposure to practical technologies
- Meet with legal tech vendor
- Test new product or services
This tech show gives you a chance to learn a lot in a short amount of time, helping you stay ahead of the curve and discover new ways to enhance your practice.
Date: April 2-5, 2025
Venue: Chicago, Illinois
#4 CLOC Global Institute
The CLOC Global Institute (CGI) is one of the prominent events for the legal community and a great place to learn from the industry’s top leaders and innovators. It's a 4-day event, covering insightful case studies, live demos, and more.
What You Can Expect:
- Braindate
- Roundtable
- Exchange stage
- Fishbowls
- Meet-ups
Source: CLOC '24
More than 2,300 legal professionals attend this event from all over the world to explore new technologies and advancement in the legal industry. Think of the networking opportunities with this dynamic group! It’s your chance to connect, innovate, and help shape the future of law.
Date: May 5-8, 2025
Venue: Las Vegas
#5 Legal Geek Conference
Legal Geek North America is a one-day legal innovation conference known for its dynamic blend of learning, networking, and entertainment. The conference includes practical guidance by industry experts, inspiration, and insights on the legal tech sector.
What You Can Expect:
- Debut Presentations
- Incredible speakers
- Hands-on sessions
- Networking
Don't worry if you're not from North America; Legal Geek also organizes conferences of a similar nature in the UK and Europe, providing several chances to attend and gain from their activities.
Feel free to choose the location and dates that best fit your calendar and enjoy the opportunity to engage with the vibrant legal innovation community.
Date: June 2025
Venue: Chicago
#6 Crafty Counsel
Looking to join a vibrant legal community? Crafty Counsels might be what you’re looking for. Crafty Fest is an exclusive event centered around in-house legal professionals.
What You Can Expect:
- Mindful sessions
- Know whistleblowing strategies
- Equity incentives meet tech & start-ups
- Learn Privacy/GDPR
- Networking & Celebration
It’s a community, a celebration, and a chance to build lasting connections while having fun! Sounds interesting, right?
The best part is that you can reunite with familiar faces, build new connections, and discover people who just get it with sector-specific networking opportunities and a welcoming environment.
Date: June 3-4, 2025
#7 Legal Innovators
Legal Innovators is yet another leading event for legal technology and innovation. It is a 2-day event featuring leading voices in legal tech, thought-provoking panels, hands-on workshops, and more.
What You Can Expect:
- Discover legal developments
- Sessions with industry experts
- Workshops
- Engage with legal tech startups
- Networking
Some of the topics covered last year include Harnessing the Power of Generative AI in Legal Practice, Generative AI in contract lifecycle management (CLM) and contract management for in-house legal teams, contracting in the age of GenAI, and Legal Ops in the Era of In-House Innovation. If these topics interest you, stay tuned to see the upcoming agenda for 2025.
Date: June 11-12, 2025
Venue: California
#8 General Counsel Summit US
Connect with more than 400+ General Counsels from leading organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, and stay informed about the most recent legal developments. Over 60+ industry professionals will gather at the 4th Annual General Counsel Summit US to exchange insightful ideas and discuss challenges that are impacting the legal community.
What You Can Expect:
- Insightful sessions
- Recent legal developments
- Networking
Not only will you have a good place for networking, but you will also have exposure to more than 20 insightful sessions to learn from, covering topics on the adoption of AI, international conflicts, pressure on General counsels, and legal trends.
Date: September 2025
Venue: US
#9 Future Lawyers USA
The Future Lawyers USA summit is a prominent event with an innovative approach intended to tackle the changing legal sector. It's a 2-day event; while the first day will focus more on Law Firms and the challenges faced by them, the other day will be dedicated to Corporate Counsels and their challenges and strategies to overcome.
What You Can Expect:
- Panel discussion
- Fireside Chats
- Technology advanced presentations
- Innovative Workshops
- Networking
Wondering which day will work best for you? Don't worry!
Both days will give you legal insights and innovations transforming the legal profession.
But if you only have one day to spare, you should attend day 1 if you are:
- Heads of Innovation/Technology
- Heads of Digital Transformation
- Heads of Knowledge Management
- Heads of Discovery
Attend Day 2 if you are:
- General Counsel/Heads of Legal
- Heads of Legal Operations
- Heads of Compliance
- Legal Counsels
Date: September 25-26, 2025
Venue: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
#10 The L Suit TechGC Full Stack GC Conference
The L Suite TechGC is another prominent legal community worth checking. This community is exclusively crafted for GCs & CLOs at high-growth startups and scaleups. Not only will you get the opportunity to connect with GCs, but you can also sit together and collaborate in small, focused groups of 8-12 professionals.
What You Can Expect:
- Exclusive community
- Roundtable discussions
- Networking
At the L Suit TechGC Full Stack Conference, you'll engage in roundtable discussions on topics that matter most to you. You'll be able to select your top interests during registration, and accordingly, they will provide you 3 or 4 tailored discussions.
The L Suite is an exclusive, invitation-only community designed specifically for in-house legal executives. As a member of TechGC, you are able to instantly tap into a global peer network of 1,800+ GCs at high-growth companies just like yours. Both in-person and online.
Date: TBA
What's in it for You?
If you want to stay up at your game, conferences, and events are your key!
Attending conferences is one of the best ways to stay current with the latest developments and gain knowledge from industry leaders. You might be well acquainted with the value of networking as a lawyer, general counsel (GC), or in-house counsel, and these events offer an ideal opportunity for you to make meaningful connections, share ideas, and gain knowledge from your peers.
One event you definitely shouldn’t miss is the SpotDraft Summit 2025. You will not only make meaningful connections here, but you will also get cutting-edge insights into the latest legal developments along with practical case studies. To learn more about SpotDraft and how contract lifecycle management (CLM) can help you and your legal team, you can always request a personalized demo.
The potential upside far outweighs any hesitation. Then what's stopping you?
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