ABA TECHSHOW 2025 to spotlight future of legal technology

Artificial intelligence, cloud-based practice management, data privacy and e-discovery will be among the hot topics featured at the American Bar Association TECHSHOW 2025, which spotlights the most useful and practical technologies available in the legal industry, April 2-5 in Chicago.

The conference, now in its 40th year, has a new and bigger venue — the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place Chicago in the South Loop. The gathering brings together legal professionals, technology experts and industry leaders to explore the latest innovations shaping the future of law. Attendees will have the opportunity to engage in hands-on workshops, insightful panel discussions and keynote presentations from some of the most influential voices in the industry.

Sci-fi novelist and technology activist Cory Doctorow will be the keynote speaker on April 3. Doctorow is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties, and a visiting professor of practice at the University of North Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science.

For the ninth consecutive year, ABA TECHSHOW will host the Startup Pitch Competition, which will kick off on April 2. Fifteen legal startups will face off in the competition, judged by TECHSHOW attendees who will pick the most innovative startup for the year.