Happy Friday!
Three legal events in the next two months, and only so much travel budget to go around.
Which ones will you be at? Let us know in the comments:
- RLLB (Running Legal Like a Business), September 8-11, Las Vegas
- Buying Legal Council, September 29-30, New York
- ACC Annual Meeting, October 4-6, Boston
- None of them, I'm sitting this season out
We'll do two things with your answers.
First, we'll share the results in an upcoming digest, so you can see where your peers are spending their travel time and budget.
Second, wherever enough of you are headed, we'll be there too, with a Legal.io meetup and in-person Spotlight interviews.
Going somewhere we didn't list? Name it below and we'll keep it on our radar.
— Pieter Gunst
CEO & Co-Founder, Legal.io
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