The ‘press gallery’: Joe Patrice of Above the Law and Steve Embry of Techlaw Crossroads. Exhibitors told me that they got great traffic to their booths and many leads for potential customers. Breakfast and lunch were served daily in the back. The hall includes multiple other activities to draw attendees in and through. They stand or fall on the strength of their product, not on the gaudiness of their display. This is how an exhibit hall should be done. ClioCon continues to do a good job of presenting programs on topics that focus on the practical aspects of running and growing a law firm and using legal technology.Įxhibit hall. I know of no other conference where the organizers go to such expense to ensure that attendees are never without assistance or guidance – or, for that matter, a friendly smile. Wherever one turns at the conference, there is a Clio employee ready to help, whether you simply need to be pointed in the right direction or help with some other question.
Clio sent some 200 of its employees to the conference, not as idle attendees or to be salespeople or marketers, but rather to be, in effect, concierges. At no other legal tech conference will you find this breadth and depth of passion. These are legal professionals who care deeply about their clients and who want passionately to be the best they can at serving them. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a conference in which it feels as if every single person is there because they are deeply committed to improving the practice of law and the delivery of legal services through the better use of technology and the innovation of their practices. Tribe is perhaps a better word than my “cult,” but I think Newton and I mean the same thing. In his closing remarks wrapping up this year’s ClioCon, Clio founder and CEO Jack Newton described the feeling among attendees of having “joined a tribe.” “We are part of a big community here with a common goal of transforming the legal experience for all,” he said. So what made this conference great? Here are some of the highlights. In fact, as a group of us ClioCon veterans chatted over drinks on the last night of the conference, and even though everyone in the group agreed that this year felt somehow off, all but one said that ClioCon remains their favorite legal tech conference and that they unequivocally planned to be back next year. (The one holdout was on the fence as to which is best, ClioCon or the Legalgeek conference in London.) (There is an early bird price through Jan. Run out and get your tickets now for next year, where it will again be in Nashville. I still think this is one of the best legal technology conferences out there, if not the best, and I still think it is a must-attend conference for anyone interested in innovating the practice of law. This year gave me no reason to waiver from my fandom. I felt the same in 2016, 20, writing that it had “cemented its standing as a must-attend legal technology conference.” After the 2019 ClioCon, I described the experience as like “ a cult of innovation.” After the 2015 conference, I said that it was déjà vu all over again. After the second one in 2014, I called it one of the best legal technology conferences I had ever been to. I have been an unwavering and unabashed fan of ClioCon since its start in 2013. So in this post-mortem report, I will speak to both.īut let’s start with what makes this conference so great. I went to the conference as a reporter, and as a reporter, I would be irresponsible to write only about the good and turn a blind eye to the not-so-good. I heard it from many others – others who had attended past ClioCons and who are people whose opinions I value and respect – that this year’s conference somehow lacked the same vibe that has defined the conference since its inception. I probably would have attributed my opinion to my own mood or misperception and kept it to myself.īut it was not only me. Had it been only me that felt that way, I probably would not write it. But when the two days were over, I left feeling that this year’s conference was a bit off the A-game I had come to expect. Having been to all 10 ClioCons, I was thrilled to return in person. It was the first live ClioCon since COVID and the first to be held in Nashville, after previous years in San Diego, New Orleans and Chicago. Monday and Tuesday this week brought the 10 th annual Clio Cloud Conference.
So what do you call the best conference in legal tech when it is off its A-game for a year? The best conference in legal tech. Question: What do you call the best team in baseball when it’s off its A-game for a night? Answer: The best team in baseball.
0 kommentar(er)
