Ep 091: Legalweek Head Mark Fried on Making the Conference Virtual

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">After much speculation about the future of</span> <a href= "https://www.event.law.com/legalweek"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Legalweek</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">– one of the world’s largest and most-anticipated legal technology and legal business conferences – the conference’s organizers announced on Oct. 1 that it will be virtual in 2021. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">ALM Media, which produces Legalweek, said the conference will be rebranded as Legalweek(</span><strong><em>year</em></strong><span style= "font-weight: 400;">) and will be extended into a full year of events, leading up to a resumption of the in-person event in February 2022. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this special edition of LawNext,</span> <a href= "https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-fried-4895b24/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Mark Fried</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">, CFO and president of events at</span> <a href="https://www.alm.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">ALM Media</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">and the man in charge of legalweek, joins host Bob Ambrogi to provide more details about the conference and discuss what it means for attendees and exhibitors. </span></p> <p><strong>Support for this episode comes from:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">A huge thank you to our new partner ASG Legaltech for sponsoring today's episode!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thank you, as well, to our listeners for supporting LawNext on Patreon. An extra special thank you to our leading Patreon member,</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Allen Rodriguez and ONE400 for your support!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you'd like to help support LawNext, and you can subscribe to <a href= "https://www.patreon.com/LawNext">our page</a> to be able to access show transcripts, or to submit a question for our guests.</span></p>