LegalTech Organisations & Events

The speed of tech innovation around the world is impressive – and it’s no different in the legal industry. With demand for new business models, a greater need for cybersecurity, and new technologies on the market, it’s more important than ever for legal professionals to stay on the cutting-edge. Below is a list of must-visit LegalTech events & conferences. The list is constantly updated.

  • International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw) is a global organization for legal professionals focused on technology and law. ITechLaw has been serving the technology law community worldwide since 1971. Their mission is to create unparalleled opportunities for international networking and exchanging knowledge and experience with experts and colleagues around the world. ITechLaw organizes online and offline events on a regular basis.
  • LEGAL GEEK was founded in 2015 as a legal tech startup community. Its goal is to bring changes to the legal industry by connecting, informing and inspiring. The very first Legal Geek event with 30 people eating pizza and drinking beer was organized in a basement of a startup warehouse in San Francisco. Now, their events are attended by many LegalTech enthusiasts from worldwide.  
  • The Legal Innovation & Tech Fest hones in on three distinct areas of the industry: Innovation & Tech, Client Experience & Marketing, and Skills of the Future. Click to access to the event.
  • Future Lawyer Week is a 3 part event series covering the UK, USA and Asia. The Future Lawyer Week events are interactive legal innovation conferences designed to combine current and future knowledge and tech trends created to push thought provoking conversations for the legal in-house counsels and private practice law firms.
  • The LEGAL REVOLUTION Expo & Congress merges an exhibition and congress for legal innovation, business and change management, and the law of the digital economy, forming Europe’s premier legal innovation events, including workshops, for legal departments, compliance departments, and law firms.
  • Legal Innovators is for everyone who wants to learn, to share, and meet their peers. It’s for people just starting to explore this area, as well as for those who are already very experienced but want to know what is now ‘market standard’ in this rapidly changing field.
  • Legalweek brings together thousands of legal professionals for a series of innovative virtual legal events that tackle the changing legal landscape and provide actionable insights to help legal leaders restructure, rebuild and reinvigorate today’s law firms and legal departments. The Legalweek virtual series aims to serve as the anchor for the legal community during an unprecedented time, as well as a guide throughout the coming year to inform legal professionals of emerging trends, cutting edge legal technology and expert analysis of the tectonic shifts in the industry.
  • The Legal Tech Center has hosted a handful of legal tech events in Berlin, Paris and Zurich throughout the past few years, and they’re definitely great ones to keep an eye out for in the future. In addition to talks and workshops, the events also boast hackathons – which bring together innovators, developers and lawyers to brainstorm and prototype new innovation ideas in the legal tech realm.
  • LawFest is the place to discover how to transform the way you practice law. Learn from others, connect with innovators and discover technology that matters to you and your business. In addition, it offers on demand access to past events, while organizing regular LegalTech events.
  • As Europe’s largest legal technology conference and exhibition, The British Legal Technology Forum brings together the most respected professionals from both the legal and commercial technology sectors to examine and explore the systems, strategies, processes and platforms that will drive law firms and legal businesses into the next decade and beyond.
  • The main objective of European Legal Technology Association (ELTA) is to strengthen legal technology (Legal Tech) at a European level. Its goal is to represent the interests of our members. The Association is actively involved in social and political debate in order to speak up for the concerns and interests of our members and to strengthen the position of legal technology in the European legal market through regular events.
  • At CodeX, researchers, lawyers, entrepreneurs and technologists work side-by-side to advance the frontier of legal technology, bringing new levels of legal efficiency, transparency, and access to legal systems around the world. CodeX’s emphasis is on the research and development of computational law (complaw) — the branch of legal informatics concerned with the mechanization of legal reasoning. CodeX organizes Weekly CodeX Meetings and different insightful events.
  • Lexpo also offers a unique opportunity to connect with renowned industry experts, leading providers of legaltech software and services, and to hear from other innovative law firms and in-house legal departments and learn lessons from their pioneering approaches. It organizes regular annual events.
  • The Israel Tech&Law department hosts a variety of networking events, conventions, professional seminars and lectures in the field of legal tech, in order to spread the legal tech news across the startup nation. Ther goal is to offer the community our knowledge and experience, and to keep assisting the market in becoming more efficient and optimal.
  • Legal Accelerators is an international conference and exhibition dedicated to legal technology & innovation which is organized on an annual basis.
  • SwissLegal Tech Association (SLTA) is set-up as a Swiss non-profit organization. Its mission is to support the legal industry with a better understanding of the legal technology market. The Association organizes regular LegalTech events.
  • Corporate Legal Operations Consortium (CLOC) is a member-run organization made up of active legal operations professionals, each one devoted to driving innovation and positive change within the industry. CLOC provides education, networking, and collaboration opportunities through their events to in-house legal professionals worldwide, creating a wealth of actionable content to promote the development and standardization of practices that reduce costs and streamline operations.
  • Liquid Legal Institute is an open and interdisciplinary platform for promoting a new way of thinking in the legal sector. Digitalization, new business models and technological innovations are currently changing all major industries worldwide. However, the legal sector has not yet benefited sufficiently from these trends. The Liquid Legal Institute was founded by seven experts from the legal practice, design thinking and computer science to close this gap.
  • International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) is a volunteer-led, staff-managed association with a focus on premiership. ILTA has a strong reputation for delivering relevant, peer-developed programming to its constituents around the globe. Its history is a success story built on the capable volunteer leadership the member law firms and corporate/government legal departments. They organize various events with up-to-date topics relating to LegalTech with focus on practice.
  • LinGo (Legal Innovations) is a non-governmental organisation with no-profit status registered in Ukraine. LinGo supports domestic technology development, research and innovation, and is a provider for the development of innovation in law and legal startups. Through various events and programmes, such as Legal Startup Crash Test, legaltech startups can test their assumptions, exchange knowledge and network.
  • Technology Law Society at UW works to bring the technology related legal resources of both the law school and surrounding community to the student body. The topics covered under technology are broad, including biotechnology, privacy, public interest, e-commerce and intellectual property. Sponsored events have included how to choose technology related classes, technology law reading groups and finding a job in the technology field.
  • Digital Legal Lab is a research hub that works on questioning, understanding and exploring how algorithms, data, automation and artificial intelligence affect our legal system and society, and strengthening the expanding national and international research agenda on digital legal studies. Each of the four Dutch law schools collaboratively participating (Tilburg University, Radboud University Nijmegen, Maastricht University and the University of Amsterdam) bring their own unique scientific focus and expertise. Their researchers contribute to conferences, seminars, workshops and other events. First following conference will cover the topic “Digital Technologies, Public Policy, and Competition Law”.
  • Legaltech Academy is a podcast and educational platform collaborative learning platform about legal innovation, legal technology, and digital transformation of law firms and in-house legal departments.
  • Africa law tech Association ALTA is an association conceptualized by the Lawyers Hub with the aim of engaging members in the form of institutions, law firms, tech firms, development partners, other relevant organizations and individuals across the continent working on the confluence of law and technology spheres.
  • Lawyers Hub is a Legal-Tech organisation that works on Digital policy and Justice innovation, headquartered in Kenya. From 2019. Lawyers Hub organizes Africa Law Tech Festival, an annual conference designed to appeal to a wide array of players in the legal & tech space through a multifaceted approach to conferencing. The Festival consists of the following: Africa Policy Hackathon, Africa Digital Rights Concert, Africa Digital Policy Institute, Africa Startup Law Accelerator, and Africa Law Tech Conference.
  • ASEAN LegalTech (ALT) an association of LegalTech firms, legal technologists, law firms, legal departments, regulators and individuals in South East Asia.
  • Nordic LegalTech Hub is a network orientated to the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) that drives the development and implementation of legal tech. Their work is orientated to connect key people at law firms, startups, tech providers, academics, organizations, and the public sector, to provide insight into the latest legal, technical, and business developments, and to organize different events.
  • Associação Brasileira de Lawtechs e Legaltechs (AB2L) is a non-profit association established in 2017 that acts in market education, organization and promotion of the ecosystem and support in the construction of a regulatory environment conducive to the performance of companies in a complex legal system. AB2L supports the development of companies that offer innovative products or services through the use of technological resources for the legal area, democratize legal knowledge, and expand access to justice.
  • LegalTech Hub is a platform where one can to find technology and innovative businesses specialising in the legal market in New Zealand. Individual can discover resources and legal tech solutions that could help them to innovate and improve the way they deliver legal services.
  • Tech & Law Israel is a legal tech platform. Its core business activity is the fostering of collaborations and the integration of services, products and technologies into the legal sector. Platform provides source of knowledge in the legal-tech sector, delivering professional content such as updates, spotting of new trends and in-depth analysis of the legal tech field in Israel and the world.
  • Indian LegalTech is a free online knowledge base housing data and insights related to legal tech in India. Their intention is to be a centralised knowledge base that can be used to research industry developments in legal tech in India. One of the core functions of this site is to improve mainstream awareness of the state of the legal tech sector in India by tracking the developments in the sector and provide useful insights after analysing the data.
  • Asia-Pacific Legal Innovation and Technology Association (ALITA) is a regional network uniting over 10 countries in the Asia-Pacific with a purpose to drive collaboration in legal innovation and technology in the region. Their mission is to promote the development and use of legal technology, to advance thought leadership and education in the fields of legal innovation and technology, to aid the efforts of national legal technology associations and provide guidance and expertise in the creation and operation of local legal technology associations; and to enhance connections, collaboration and coordination between legal technology associations, regulators, law firms, technology companies and legal technology interest groups across the Asia-Pacific to generate opportunities for our stakeholders.
  • LegalTech Association of Japan is operated mainly by LegalTech startup companies. Their vision is to form the infrastructure of the LegalTech market and to revitalize it through active communication with representatives of Japan and lawyers and others.
  • Regtech Legaltech Indonesia (IRLA) was established in 2017 to enable collaboration between any institution that pursue technological innovation in regulation and legal business. The aim of association is to drive technological innovation in the Regulation and Legal business, Accelerate adoption of Regtech and Legaltech in Indonesia, and promote the importance of law compliance to the mass audience.
  • Athens Legal Tech is a non-profit and independent initiative of professionals and academics aiming at exploring, debating and actively influencing some of the most critical issues at the intersection of law and technology.
  • Legal Innovation Centre was established in 2016. The centre brings together research into the application and impact of new legal technology and opportunities for the education and training of current and future lawyers in essential legal tech skills. Its aim is to provide education and training to equip law students and legal professionals with the tools to become active innovators in the legal services market, to undertake research for industry clients, the public sector and the academic community, to explore and better understand how innovation can improve legal service delivery and access to justice, and to engage in collaborative research and development through partnership with stakeholders in order to capitalise on the benefits of innovative approaches to legal practice.
  • Dutch Legal Tech is a not-for-profit organisation established in 2014 that aims to accelerate legal innovation. They do it by organizing events and connecting people. It is an open community, and everyone with an interest in legal innovation is welcome to join.
  • Instituto de innovacion legal is spanish consultancy specialized in advising professionals, law firms and organizations in the legal sector on innovation, digital transformation and LegalTech projects. Their mission is to help legal professionals: lawyers, judges, solicitors, notaries, lawyers from the administration of Justice, etc. to acquire the digital skills, knowledge and experiences they need to respond to the current needs of their customers and citizens.