Legalweek 2026 starts next Monday! Here’s the Legalweek 2026 Word Cloud to give you a sense of the primary topics being discussed!

Legalweek 2026 will be conducted next week, Monday, March 9th thru Thursday, March 12th. For the first time ever, it will not be held at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City; instead, it will be held at the Javits Center. Here’s a guide for the Javits Center and surrounding restaurants, courtesy of Level Legal!

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: session, include, discussion, attendees, learn, without, beyond, explores, explore, using, panelists, including, and within. I left in “legal” this time for perspective to other terms. The Legalweek 2026 Word Cloud shown above is the result I got.

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

• Even in a legal technology conference, the term “AI” occurs the most of any word in the agenda – a whopping 264 times overall – 14 more than last year Add to that “artificial intelligence” occurring 5 more times and “GenAI” occurring 4 more times and it’s once again clear what the huge topic is at this year’s conference! Paired with “AI”, the word “agentic” appears 35 times, while the word “generative” occurs 13 times – that’s not even in the top 100!
• The word “legal” appears 240 times. The word “technology” appears 43 times, and the word “technologies” appears 15 times.
• The word “data” is third at 120 times, which is 25 fewer than last year. Surprising.
• “teams” and “law” round out the top five at 82 and 80 occurrences respectively.
• “eDiscovery” occurs 8 times, 12 fewer than last year. Add in “e-discovery” and just “discovery” and you get 9 and 22 more hits respectively, for a total of 39, 11 fewer than last year.
• “workflows” occurs 58 times, “risk” occurs 55 times, “governance” occurs 51 times, “strategies” occurs 49 times, and “value” occurs 39 times.
• “privacy” occurs only 7 times (last year, it was 33), “security” occurs 18 times (up 2), “cyber” occurs 1 time and “cybersecurity” occurs 4 times – all but “security” down from last year ☹
• “litigation” occurs 33 times (down 15), “support” occurs 14 times (down 7), and there are once again no occurrences of the term “litigation support”.
• “cloud” occurs only 3 times, but that’s actually 2 more than last year.

Hopefully, the Legalweek 2026 Word Cloud gives you some sense of what’s being covered at this year’s Legalweek – a ton of AI, more governance, less eDiscovery, and privacy, about the same amount of security, very little cloud and no “litigation support”! More to come – stay tuned!

So, what do you think?  Are you planning to attend Legalweek 2026? 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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