Happy New Year! It’s 2025!  As always, a new year brings a new slate of eDiscovery events, conferences and meetings.  And courtesy of Rob Robinson’s excellent ComplexDiscovery site, you know when most of the eDiscovery events in 2025 are currently planned.

In Rob’s post From Legalweek to ILTACON: 2025’s Early eDiscovery-Related Event Listing, he provides a working list of eDiscovery events for 2025, noting: “The 2025 event calendar for legal technology and eDiscovery professionals is shaping up to be a busy year, with conferences, summits, and workshops spread across the globe.” Of course, as Rob also notes, it’s still early, but we already know when several of the major legal tech events will be in 2025.

Rob has compiled a list of events every year for several years now and I’m happy to say I’ve covered it for several years as well.  His yearly post is a great reference guide for key events and Rob continues to update it as events are added or dates for events are announced.

Not only does Rob compile the list every year, but he starts compiling it early – his initial posting for this year’s list is dated October 18, 2024 – even before Halloween! So, why do I wait until now to cover it? It’s a timely and easy post for me to cover to start off the new year! Thanks, Rob!

Anyway, here are a few notable eDiscovery events in 2025 that are currently scheduled (with links to the sites when available):

• January 16-17: The Sedona Conference Working Group 13 on Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Inaugural Meeting 2025
• February 12-13: 12th Annual E-Discovery Conference, University of Florida
• March 19-20: Compliance Week Ethics & Compliance Summit
• March 24-27: Legalweek 2025, New York, NY
• April 2-5: ABA TECHSHOW, Chicago, IL
• April 21-24: IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2025, Washington DC
• May 5-8: CLOC – Las Vegas
• June 3-5: Techno Security & Digital Forensics Conference, Wilmington NC
• August 2-7: Black Hat USA 2025 – Las Vegas
• August 10-14: ILTACON – National Harbor, MD
• October 7-9: Relativity Fest – Chicago
• October 10-11: EDI Leadership Summit, Tamaya, NM

This list also includes 12 events for eDiscovery Today Affinity partner The Master’s Conference in 2025! Some of the dates are still being determined, so check the above link for updates.

For events without set dates, Rob has listed them at the bottom of the list as “TBD”.

You can find a much more comprehensive list of events in Rob’s post here.  This is a link you’ll want to save as a favorite to reference periodically to identify updates to the schedule.

So, what do you think?  Do you plan to attend any in-person eDiscovery events in 2025?  Please share any comments you might have or if you’d like to know more about a particular topic.

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