Having reached 40 years previous, firmly into center age, ABA TECHSHOW exhibits it nonetheless has some tips up its sleeves. For 2025, attendees get to expertise a brand new venue, dig deeper into AI instruments, and listen to from keynote speaker Cory Doctorow.
A New Venue
In years previous, TECHSHOW lived within the coronary heart of Chicago’s Loop. For 2025, the present strikes south, actually. The convention takes place within the historic South Loop neighborhood, on the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place. In your free time, discover new components of the Windy Metropolis, just like the Museum Campus, the Prairie Avenue District, and the Lakefront space.
With TECHSHOW transferring to April this yr, out of doors touring and exploration are extra sensible than previous exhibits held within the winter months.
AI for Legal professionals? Oh, Sure.
Naturally, AI might be a scorching subject of dialog, each within the instructional periods and the expo corridor.
On Stage
TECHSHOW 2025 options almost 30 periods on the subject. Be taught every part from AI fundamentals (e.g., A Temporary Historical past of Authorized AI: A Look Again and a Preview of What’s Subsequent), to the nuts and bolts (e.g., 60 Generative AI Use Circumstances in 60 Minutes), to moral issues (e.g., Evaluating AI for Regulation Observe: Advantages, Dangers, and Sensible Ethics), and AI’s broader influence on the regulation (e.g., Digital Justice: Two Generations of Judges Discover AI’s Influence on the Authorized System).
Within the Expo Corridor
TECHSHOW’s expo corridor options dozens of AI-related merchandise to assist your regulation apply, from conventional distributors and startups.
Conventional Gamers
Regulation apply administration software program (LPMS) is well-represented with AI options. Go to the expo corridor to experiment with the LPMS-based AI choices. Check drive instruments like Clio Duo and MyCase IQ, AIs that enable you to entry data shortly; every part from easy case info to matter summaries and doc analyses. Different main LPMS merchandise, like CosmoLex and PracticePanther, incorporate AI processing “behind the scenes,” to bolster your workflows.
Extra TECHSHOW exhibitors embracing the AI revolution embrace cost processors, CRM purposes, and doc administration merchandise. AffiniPay, LawPay’s guardian, is constructing out an AffiniPay IQ initiative to combine generative AI into instruments that attorneys already use. Lawmatics continues to refine and improve its LM[AI] characteristic set to assist regulation companies handle leads and entice shoppers. NetDocuments’ ndMAX suite of AI expertise, together with PatternBuilder MAX, assist companies acquire and assessment data, in addition to put together paperwork mixing the brand new knowledge with current paperwork and templates.
Begin-ups
TECHSHOW doesn’t restrict AI pleasure to established gamers. Arrive on the convention by 5:00 p.m. on April 2nd to benefit from the ninth annual “Begin-Up Pitch Competitors,” the place new corporations with revolutionary concepts compete for the love of TECHSHOW attendees. This yr, 15 corporations battle for the title of most revolutionary startup of 2025. Would you be stunned to be taught that 10 of the 15 explicitly point out incorporating AI into their merchandise? Me neither.
When you can’t attend the competitors, go to the contributors within the expo corridor’s Startup Alley part.
Keynote
For 2025, TECHSHOW’s keynote combines literature, journalism, and know-how, with the choice of Cory Doctorow because the speaker.
Doctorow writes for magazines, web sites, and newspapers. He serves as a particular advisor to the Digital Freedom Basis, is a visiting professor at two universities, and has revealed over 25 books, most lately, Picks and Shovels, a novel set in Nineteen Eighties Silicon Valley. In 2020, Doctorow was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Corridor of Fame.
With that breadth of expertise, his keynote will little question be partaking and wide-ranging.
Meet the Consultants at Lawyerist and Affinity
After all, Lawyerist and Affinity may have a robust presence on the convention. TECHSHOW stalwarts Steve Greatest, Stephanie Everett, Debbie Foster, and Barron Henley all lead a number of periods pertaining to many subjects, together with AI. Zack Glaser and I might be working across the convention and expo corridor. Come say hey, and we’ll provide you with a Lawyerist tchotcke. We sit up for seeing you there!
Nervous About Navigating the Expo Corridor? Take a look at our Discipline Information on Shopping for Authorized Tech.
Final up to date March seventeenth, 2025
