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Celebrity Keynotes At Legal Tech Conferences: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

By Stephen Embry on May 13, 2026
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I recently attended another legal tech conference celebrity keynote that left the audience wondering “what does this have to do with me?” Here’s my post for Above the Law on why celebrity keynotes at legal tech conferences sometime miss the mark. And what conference organizers and, for that matter, the celebrity speakers should be focusing on: application of the presentation to legal, making the talk relevant to what we do everyday, and not talking about being a celebrity for the sake of being a celebrity.

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