Each year the state bar says that we have to get a dozen or so hours of continuing legal education. For most of us, this means attending a conference or studiously watching videos on the Internet. Conferences offer the benefit of potential networking and useful advice from peers. [Editor’s note: In the interest of full disclosure, CorpCounsel.com’s parent company ALM has a conference arm.] This time of year, despite fruitless efforts to “unsubscribe,” our email boxes are stuffed with solicitations from different venues. Not all conferences are created equal. Some are actually pretty bad. Here’s how to pick:
Speaker Diversity: The fewer speakers that are trying to sell you something, the better the conference. This isn’t always easy, and for understandable reasons. Typically, the economics of conducting a conference require some sort of service-type businesses to sponsor the conference—whether it’s an e-discovery vendor, a law or accounting firm, or other consulting business—to lower registration costs and pay for those boxed lunches. Sponsors help keep the lights on, but in-house experts offer hands-on advice and insight into how issues impact their client business.
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