AALL Annual Meeting & Conference 2027

How it compares

Legalweek offers a wider commercial view of legal technology and the business of law. Its New York gathering brings together technology innovators, legal professionals, and business leaders, with a planned audience of 10,000 in 2027. A supplier seeking law firm leadership and a broad technology buying audience will have more reasons to consider that floor. At AALL, the conversation is more tightly tied to legal research, collections, information services, and library purchasing.

ILTACON is the closer alternative for teams working on technology deployment and professional training. Its peer-created program includes learning pathways, hands-on training, panels, and attendee-driven sessions. That makes it a useful complement for an organization whose legal information service must also fit a wider technology environment. AALL puts the law library profession itself at the center, including academic and public-sector settings that sit alongside law firm libraries.

The choice turns on whose work a product changes. A legal information platform or specialist publisher can use AALL to meet the people responsible for research access and collections. A broader legal technology proposition has more overlap with Legalweek or ILTACON. For library leaders, AALL also connects the supplier discussion with colleagues facing similar collection, service, and professional development decisions.

AALL is the focused trip for law library leaders and suppliers whose products shape legal research, collections, and information services.

Who exhibits

Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, and Thomson Reuters share the directory with Carolina Academic Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, and De Gruyter Brill. CourtAlert and NELLCO Law Library Consortium add other parts of the legal information ecosystem. The mix brings specialist publishing, research platforms, and library services into the same visit. It gives an academic library and a law firm library different reasons to walk the floor, while keeping both within the legal information profession.

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AALL Annual Meeting & Conference 2027

AALL 2027 brings the association's 120th Annual Meeting & Conference to Philadelphia under the theme Forward Together. The program committee has distilled 83 ideas into 30 priority topics for proposals, emphasizing the changes shaping legal information work and practical ways colleagues can respond. The educational program follows AALL's Body of Knowledge, placing professional learning alongside the exhibit floor. Philadelphia Marriott Downtown is the headquarters hotel, with The Notary Hotel also in the conference housing offer.

• For a collection review, compare the specialist publishers Carolina Academic Press, Edward Elgar Publishing, and De Gruyter Brill alongside the legal research platforms in the AALL directory.
• Treat AALL's legal information categories as separate buying questions: knowledge management, competitive intelligence, electronic research management, and legal research platforms can involve different library stakeholders.

Exhibiting

AALL suits suppliers selling into law libraries, including legal publishers, research platforms, and knowledge management providers. The exhibit package includes full conference registrations, drape, a booth sign, and an app listing linked to the booth. Exhibitor Showcase presentations and exhibit hall refreshment sponsorships add ways to reach this audience. American Conference Institute manages exhibits on AALL's behalf, and space is allocated from completed applications on a first-received basis.