The Call for Presentations for our 2021 Annual Conference is now open!
Here is your chance to showcase your expertise! Position yourself as a thought-leader among your legal management peers and share your insights and experience with industry trends and challenges.
To be considered to speak at the conference, please complete this online form. The deadline to submit is June 12, 2020, 5 p.m. Central. You will be notified by October 30, 2020, if you have been selected.
APPLY TO BE A SPEAKER
As we look forward to celebrating ALA’s 50th anniversary, we are building out a vibrant 2021 Annual Conference & Expo, which will be held April 25-28 at Chicago’s Navy Pier.
What We’re Looking For
Our goal is to deliver excellent educational content for legal management professionals with relevant, engaging programs tailored to specific job functions, firm size and seniority. We aim to help our members make an impact in their role today and to prepare them for what they need to know tomorrow.
Topic areas of interest for the 2021 Annual Conference & Expo include the following, but feel free to propose a topic you’d like to share with your peers:
- Change management
- Cloud computing
- Compliance
- Communications skills
- Contract negotiation
- Data analytics
- Disaster planning
- Diversity
- Emerging technologies
- Equity
- Ethics
- Facilities management
- HR (employee personnel issues, counseling, leave of absences, etc.)
- Inclusion
- Law firm economics
- Leadership skills
- Legal industry landscape and emerging trends
- Legal operations
- Mitigating and responding to cybersecurity threats
- Partner compensation systems
- Practical ways of prioritizing
- Pricing and profitability
- Process improvement
- Procurement processes
- Project management
- Remote working policies and practices
- Risk management/professional liability
- Self-management
- Succession planning
- Staffing structures/models
- Strategic planning
- Talent retention
- Wellness – stress management, mindfulness, lawyer well-being
- Writing