We’re just one week away from Legalweek 2024! Here’s the Legalweek 2024 Word Cloud to give you a sense of the primary topics being discussed!

Legalweek 2024 will be conducted starting next Monday, January 29th thru February 1st. Once again, it will be held at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City.

As I like to do for conferences like this, I took this year’s detailed agenda and ran the session titles and descriptions through a word cloud generator. I then reviewed the first cut of it and removed some obvious words from the list: legal, technology, tech, technologies, session, discussion, discuss, new, topics, include, within and join. The Legalweek 2024 Word Cloud shown above is the result I got.

Here are some notable terms that occur frequently (and not so frequently):

• With “legal” removed from the agenda (it occurs 188 times), the term “AI” occurs the most of any remaining word in the agenda – a gigantic 142 times overall – 70(!) more than last year! Add to that “artificial intelligence” occurring 12 more times and “GAI” occurring 16 more times and it’s easy to guess what the huge topic is at this year’s conference! The word “generative” occurs 28 times to boot! 😉
• I chose to leave the word “data” in again this year, and it occurs a whopping 132 times, which is 44 more than last year! I also chose to leave in “law”, which occurs 81 times.
• “eDiscovery” occurs 23 times, 10 fewer than last year. Add in “e-discovery” and just “discovery” and you get 5 and 6 more hits respectively, for a total of 34, 20 fewer than last year. 🙁
• “firms” occurs 41 times, “strategies” occurs 40 times, “compliance” occurs 38 times, and “management” occurs 37 times.
• “privacy” occurs 37 times, “security” occurs 22 times, “cyber” occurs 11 times and “cybersecurity” occurs 18 times – all up from last year!
• “litigation” occurs 20 times, “support” occurs 10 times, but there are no occurrences – zero, zilch, nada! – of the term “litigation support”.
• “cloud” occurs 10 times, 2 fewer than last year.
• “governance” occurs 29 times, a whopping 19 more than last year! And many of those are hits for “information governance” or “data governance”! 😀

Hopefully, the Legalweek 2024 Word Cloud gives you some sense of what’s being covered at this year’s Legalweek – a ton of AI, way more governance, more security and privacy, less cloud, WAY less eDiscovery and no “litigation support”! I’ll highlight some notable sessions during the conference next week. Stay tuned!

So, what do you think?  Are you planning to attend Legalweek 2024? I’ll be there! Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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