LabCon 2026: The Law Firm Conference Built for Building, Not Sitting Through CLE 

Most law firm conferences follow the same formula: badges, a lobby full of vendor booths, a ballroom, someone at a podium, a stack of CLE credits, and a flight home with a notebook full of ideas you’ll never open again. That’s not a knock on CLE. There is a role for going to CLE sessions and learning the latest law in your practice area. It’s just not the job most firm owners actually need done right now. 

LabCon is built to do a different job: get you out of the business long enough to work on it, with experts sitting beside you instead of talking at you. 

What is LabCon? 

LabCon is Lawyerist’s 2.5-day working retreat for law firm owners, held September 28-30 in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s not a lecture circuit. It’s structured working sessions on your firm’s business strategy with a room of peers who are building on similar issues. 

New for 2026: a half-day AI workshop added before the main event. Same principle but applied to AI adoption. Imagine sitting in a room with our AI experts sitting next to you, helping you build in real time, instead of explaining AI to you in the abstract. 

Seats are limited, and space is going fast. 

Why “getting away” is the actual point 

Strategy doesn’t happen between client emails. It doesn’t happen in the fifteen minutes before your next call, or on the drive home when you’re too tired to think past today. It requires distance from the everyday fires that might make you feel productive when your firm’s actual direction stays exactly where it was last year. 

That’s the reframe most firm owners resist: the busiest people in the building are often the ones with the least strategic clarity, because busy and clear are two different states, and you can’t buy your way into the second one without stepping out of the first. 

LabCon isn’t a break from your business. It’s the most effective way to focus on some of the most valuable work you’ll ever do.  

Why Our Workshops Are Different  

Most AI education for lawyers looks the same: someone on stage walks through use cases, you nod, you leave with a slide deck, and no workflow changes. We decided long ago to retire that model. Here’s what we do instead.  

You bring a real bottleneck from your practice. An expert sits beside you and helps you build a working solution during the session, not a hypothetical one for later. You leave with something implemented, not a list of things to try when you find time you don’t have.  

One year, we had a group of attorneys wondering how to leverage videos in their social media posts. Instead of listening to someone talk for an hour with slides about how to create videos and post them, our group spent 10 minutes learning the basics. Then, they headed outside with their phones and some basic equipment and started creating video.  

Wondering about how you can use AI in your firm? You’ll show up with your computer and have our AI experts sitting beside you, showing you how to use the tools to solve the problems. Instead of leaving with a notebook full of ideas, you leave with something implemented.  

Who LabCon is for 

LabCon is built for firm owners who’ve moved past survival mode and are ready to roll up their sleeves and work on their business. If your firm still runs on instinct and your own bandwidth, this is the room where that changes. 

LabCon 2026: dates, location, and how to get a seat 

• When: September 28-30, 2026 

• Where: Atlanta, Georgia 

• New this year: a half-day, hands-on AI workshop preceding the main retreat 

• Availability: Limited space remains 

If you want details or want to lock in a seat, the fastest path is direct: email me and let’s chat and get your registered: [email protected]. 

Notice what’s being offered here: not more information about AI, not another credit hour. This is three days of distance from the noise, with expert by your side while you build. That’s a different kind of conference. It’s worth asking whether your calendar has room for one. 

Is LabCon a CLE conference? No. LabCon is a working retreat focused on strategy and implementation, not a credit-hour lecture series. If CLE credit matters to you, this isn’t built around that goal. Instead, we build a conference built around what you need next for your business.  

What actually happens in the AI workshop? You work one-on-one and in small groups with an expert on a real problem in your firm—intake, drafting, client communication, whatever your bottleneck is—and build a working solution during the session. 

Do I need AI experience to attend the workshop? No. The format is designed around your firm’s current bottleneck, not a baseline skill level. You bring the problem; the expert helps you build the fix. 

Who should attend LabCon? Law firm owners and leaders who are past survival mode and ready to work on strategy and business infrastructure rather than day-to-day fires. 

Where can I learn more? Visit this website for more details:  

How do I register or ask questions? Email [email protected]. Seats are limited.