By September 2026 is a packed month on the legal conference circuit, with events spread across the United States, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. There is something on the calendar for trial lawyers, corporate counsel, legal academics, family law practitioners, criminal lawyers, legal operations teams, and attorneys working in specialized practice areas.
We’ve rounded up 23 of the major legal conferences happening this September, along with a handful of additional events worth knowing about for legal leadership, education, and in-house practice. If you like planning your CLE and travel calendar ahead of time, our legal events calendar and practice area news hub are good places to bookmark alongside this list.
Each listing below breaks down who the event is built for and the issues likely to shape the program. Dates, locations, and agendas can shift, so it’s worth double-checking the details directly with the organizer before booking travel.
September 2026 Legal Conference Calendar
| Date | Conference | Location | Organizer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 2–4 | ABA Business Law Fall Meeting 2026 | Chicago, Illinois | ABA Business Law Section |
| Sept. 2–6 | IAFL Annual Meeting 2026 | Dublin, Ireland | International Academy of Family Lawyers |
| Sept. 2–4 | Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2026 | Norwich, United Kingdom | Society of Legal Scholars |
| Sept. 3–5 | European Society of International Law Annual Conference | Málaga, Spain | European Society of International Law |
| Sept. 3–6 | CAALA Vegas 2026 | Las Vegas, Nevada | Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles |
| Sept. 4–5 | 30th Annual Competition Conference | Florence, Italy | International Bar Association |
| Sept. 8–11 | RLLB 2026: Running Legal Like a Business | Las Vegas, Nevada | LegalOps.com |
| Sept. 8–10 | Congreso Latinoamericano de Gerencias Legales 2026 | Mexico City, Mexico | Xtrategia Group and ANADE |
| Sept. 9–11 | ALPMA Summit + ALTACON 2026 | Geelong, Australia | ALPMA and ALTA |
| Sept. 9–11 | Southeastern White Collar Crime Institute | Braselton, Georgia | ABA Criminal Justice Section |
| Sept. 9–10 | Annual Privacy Forum 2026 | Salzburg, Austria | Privacy law community |
| Sept. 9–12 | International Society of Family Law Conference | Istanbul, Turkey | International Society of Family Law |
| Sept. 10 | Leadership in Law Singapore 2026 | Singapore | Law.com, Lexology and Global Leaders in Law |
| Sept. 14–16 | Women, Influence & Power in Law 2026 | Nashville, Tennessee | Corporate Counsel and Law.com |
| Sept. 16–18 | ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference | Las Vegas, Nevada | ABA Lawyers’ Professional Liability |
| Sept. 16–18 | ABA Forum on Air and Space Law Annual Meeting | Denver, Colorado | ABA Forum on Air and Space Law |
| Sept. 16–17 | National Conference on Parent Representation | Virtual | ABA Center on Children and the Law |
| Sept. 17–19 | Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention | Richmond, Virginia | Federal Bar Association |
| Sept. 17–18 | Sustainable Real Estate Law and Green Building Regulations Conference | Florida | International conference organizer |
| Sept. 20–25 | ABA International Law Section Fall Conference | London, England | ABA International Law Section |
| Sept. 22–24 | Kaleidoscope 2026 | Las Vegas, Nevada | 8am |
| Sept. 24–25 | TIPS Fidelity and Surety Law Fall Conference | Boston, Massachusetts | ABA TIPS |
| Sept. 29 | General Counsel Conference Southwest 2026 | Dallas, Texas | Corporate Counsel and Law.com |
1. ABA Business Law Fall Meeting 2026
When: September 2–4, 2026
Where: Hyatt Regency Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Host: American Bar Association, Business Law Section
Who it’s for: Business lawyers, in-house counsel, regulators, judges, and attorneys working in corporate and transactional practice.
What to Expect
The ABA Business Law Fall Meeting is one of the largest events of the month for corporate and transactional lawyers. The program includes more than 50 CLE presentations and hundreds of committee and subcommittee meetings covering developments across business law.
The 2026 program includes sessions on mergers and acquisitions, banking regulation, enterprise risk management, boardroom crisis response, and professional responsibility. Financial regulation is also expected to receive significant attention, including stablecoin regulation under the GENIUS Act, cryptocurrency policy, and ESG-related finance issues.
The event is also closely connected to the ABA Business Law Section’s committee structure, giving attendees an opportunity to participate in discussions that continue beyond the conference itself.
Why It Matters
The meeting brings corporate lawyers into the same place as regulators, judges, in-house counsel, and practitioners working across different parts of the business law system, and it draws attorneys from outside the US as well, so the networking carries roughly as much weight as the programming. If business law is your beat, it is worth the trip to Chicago.
Official information: ABA Business Law Fall Meeting
2. IAFL Annual Meeting 2026
When: September 2–6, 2026
Where: Dublin, Ireland
Host: International Academy of Family Lawyers
Who it’s for: Family law practitioners handling international divorce, custody disputes, relocation cases, and cross-border asset division.
What to Expect
The IAFL focuses on the legal problems that arise when a family dispute involves more than one jurisdiction. A divorce or custody case can become significantly more complicated when spouses, children, assets, or court orders are spread across different countries.
Programming addresses comparative family law, jurisdictional disputes, enforcement of foreign custody and support orders, and cross-border relocation issues.
Because IAFL membership is selective and limited to experienced practitioners, the annual meeting also serves as an important referral and professional network. Lawyers handling international matters often need reliable counsel in another jurisdiction, sometimes on short notice.
Why It Matters
For family law practitioners working on international matters, the meeting combines substantive legal discussion with relationships that can support future cross-border cases.
Official information: IAFL Events
3. Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference 2026
When: September 2–4, 2026
Where: Norwich, United Kingdom
Host: Society of Legal Scholars
Who it’s for: Law professors, legal researchers, doctoral candidates, and academic legal professionals.
What to Expect
The Society of Legal Scholars Annual Conference operates differently from a traditional CLE event. Its focus is legal research, academic debate, and the presentation of new scholarship, and it is the UK’s largest annual gathering of legal academics.
Participants present work across constitutional law, criminal justice, property law, legal theory, and other academic disciplines. The conference also gives doctoral candidates and early-career researchers an opportunity to receive feedback and connect with scholars working in similar areas before their work goes to publication.
Why It Matters
This one matters most to readers tracking where legal scholarship is heading rather than readers looking for immediate, CLE-eligible practice updates. Research presented here often shapes how a doctrine gets argued years down the line.
Official information: Society of Legal Scholars
4. European Society of International Law Annual Conference 2026
When: September 3–5, 2026
Where: Málaga, Spain
Host: European Society of International Law
Who it’s for: International law academics, government legal advisers, lawyers at international organizations, NGOs, courts, and tribunals.
What to Expect
The ESIL Annual Conference, now in its 21st year, brings together people working across public international law, international human rights, international economic law, and international dispute resolution.
The program combines a central conference theme with specialist sessions covering areas such as international courts, economic law, and human rights. Speakers can include senior academics, sitting or former judges, and legal officials connected to international institutions.
The conference is designed less around routine CLE requirements and more around major developments in international legal doctrine and institutions.
Why It Matters
For lawyers and researchers following international institutions and cross-border legal frameworks, ESIL offers a concentrated read on where public international law is headed, often well before it shows up in case law or treaty text.
Official information: European Society of International Law
5. CAALA Vegas 2026
When: September 3–6, 2026
Where: Fontainebleau Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles
Who it’s for: Plaintiff-side trial lawyers handling personal injury, medical malpractice, employment, and consumer protection matters.
What to Expect
CAALA has run this convention every Labor Day weekend since 1983, and it has grown into the largest annual gathering of plaintiff-side trial lawyers in the country, typically drawing around 3,000 attendees, over 150 speakers, and 250-plus legal service exhibitors.
The program focuses heavily on practical litigation issues, including trial strategy, voir dire, damages arguments, and case development, across more than 30 sessions. Attendees can earn up to 16 hours of MCLE credit, including ethics and elimination of bias credits.
It is also, deliberately, a networking and morale event for the plaintiffs’ bar, with receptions and a “master speakers” panel format that puts newer attorneys in the room with some of the most well-known trial lawyers in California.
Why It Matters
CAALA is built around practical trial work and is particularly relevant to lawyers whose practices depend on litigation, jury trials, and case strategy. If you cover litigation, it is a good one to have on the radar for content and sourcing.
Official information: CAALA
6. 30th Annual Competition Conference
When: September 4–5, 2026
Where: Florence, Italy
Host: International Bar Association
Who it’s for: Competition and antitrust lawyers, in-house competition counsel, and officials from competition authorities.
What to Expect
Now marking its 30th year, the IBA’s Competition Conference is one of the organization’s most established practice-specific events, and it addresses the increasingly international nature of antitrust enforcement. Multinational companies can face merger review, cartel investigations, and abuse-of-dominance rules in several jurisdictions at the same time.
Sessions typically address merger control, digital markets regulation, cartel enforcement, and differences in enforcement priorities across Europe, the United States, and Asia.
The participation of regulators gives practitioners an opportunity to hear directly about enforcement priorities rather than relying solely on outside analysis.
Why It Matters
Competition law increasingly requires lawyers to understand how multiple regulators approach the same commercial conduct. This conference draws a heavily international crowd of regulators, in-house competition counsel, and private practice antitrust lawyers into a single discussion.
Official information: IBA Conferences
7. RLLB 2026: Running Legal Like a Business
When: September 8–11, 2026
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: LegalOps.com
Who it’s for: Legal operations professionals, general counsel, chief operating officers, legal innovation teams, and legal technology professionals.
What to Expect
RLLB approaches the legal profession from an operational perspective. The focus is not primarily on litigation or transactional doctrine. It is on how legal departments and firms manage budgets, technology, vendors, and internal performance.
Programming typically includes legal spend management, e-billing, matter management systems, artificial intelligence, vendor management, and measuring the value of legal operations.
General counsel are also increasingly involved because legal departments face growing pressure to manage costs while handling more regulatory and business responsibilities.
Why It Matters
RLLB is designed for people responsible for how a legal organization operates, including the systems and technology behind the practice of law, rather than for litigators or transactional attorneys.
8. Congreso Latinoamericano de Gerencias Legales 2026
When: September 8–10, 2026
Where: Mexico City, Mexico
Host: Xtrategia Group and ANADE
Who it’s for: General counsel and senior legal department leaders operating across Latin America.
What to Expect
The conference focuses on the realities of managing legal departments across multiple Latin American jurisdictions. Legal teams in the region must navigate different regulatory, labor, corporate governance, and compliance systems. ANADE, the co-host, is Mexico’s national association of corporate law departments.
Programming addresses legal department management, budgets, vendor strategy, cross-border compliance, labor developments, and changes in data protection and corporate governance.
Why It Matters
For companies expanding across Latin America, the conference is a direct line to how regional general counsel are actually managing that complexity, rather than theoretical coverage of the region’s legal systems.
9. ALPMA Summit + ALTACON 2026
When: September 9–11, 2026
Where: Geelong, Australia
Host: Australasian Legal Practice Management Association and Australasian Legal Technology Association
Who it’s for: Law firm managers, practice management professionals, legal technology teams, and firm administrators.
What to Expect
ALPMA and ALTA joined their events into a single summit to bring the business-management side of law firms and the technology side into the same room, since the two have become hard to separate.
ALPMA’s side of the program focuses on firm strategy, finance, marketing, talent, and human resources. ALTACON’s sessions address artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, practice management software, and other systems used to run legal practices.
Why It Matters
It is not a CLE event in the traditional sense. It is built for the people who run the business of the firm rather than the people arguing cases, which makes it one of the more operationally focused events on this list.
10. Southeastern White Collar Crime Institute
When: September 9–11, 2026
Where: Braselton, Georgia
Host: ABA Criminal Justice Section
Who it’s for: Criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors, compliance officers, and attorneys handling corporate or regulatory investigations.
What to Expect
White collar cases often involve complex financial records, regulatory investigations, and parallel civil and criminal proceedings. Because the institute draws both defense attorneys and prosecutors to the same sessions, it functions differently than most defense-only CLE programs.
Sessions typically address Department of Justice enforcement priorities, corporate criminal liability, securities and healthcare fraud, public corruption, and coordination between agencies such as the DOJ and SEC.
The institute has run for 12 years now and has built a reputation as one of the more substantive regional programs in this space, drawing attendees well beyond Georgia.
Why It Matters
If criminal law coverage is on your list, this institute regularly produces useful panel discussions on federal enforcement, corporate criminal liability, and the strategy behind complex financial crime cases.
Official information: ABA Criminal Justice Section
11. Annual Privacy Forum 2026
When: September 9–10, 2026
Where: Salzburg, Austria
Host: Privacy law community
Who it’s for: Data privacy lawyers, data protection officers, compliance professionals, and academic researchers.
What to Expect
Privacy law has expanded significantly through frameworks such as the GDPR, the CCPA, and the CPRA, along with a growing list of new national and state privacy rules, and companies operating across borders now have to reconcile all of them at once.
The forum examines how lawyers and organizations are dealing with those overlapping systems, particularly in cross-border operations. Topics can include international data transfers, artificial intelligence, automated decision-making, and differences between European and American enforcement approaches.
The program also includes a research component, pulling in academic papers alongside practitioner panels, which makes it more academically focused than many conventional privacy CLE events.
Why It Matters
The conference is useful for lawyers who need to understand not only existing privacy rules but also the direction future regulation is heading.
12. International Society of Family Law Conference 2026
When: September 9–12, 2026
Where: Istanbul, Turkey
Host: International Society of Family Law
Who it’s for: Family law academics, comparative law researchers, and practitioners interested in international family law.
What to Expect
This conference takes a more academic approach than the IAFL meeting earlier in the month. Its focus is comparative research into how different legal systems address marriage, parentage, custody, child welfare, and family structures.
Topics may include surrogacy, assisted reproduction, children’s rights, and changes in the legal recognition of family relationships. The event draws researchers and legal professionals from jurisdictions with very different family law systems, including several outside the common law tradition.
Why It Matters
The conference provides a comparative view of how family law develops across jurisdictions rather than concentrating only on practical case management.
13. Leadership in Law Singapore 2026
When: September 10, 2026
Where: The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore
Host: Law.com, Lexology, and Global Leaders in Law
Who it’s for: Managing partners, general counsel, and senior legal executives across the Asia-Pacific region.
What to Expect
Leadership in Law Singapore is a one-day, invitation-heavy event focused on the management of legal organizations rather than a specific area of substantive law.
The program addresses artificial intelligence, changing client expectations, succession planning, talent retention, and the restructuring of law firms and legal departments around technology.
Because it is organized by Law.com and Lexology, both legal media outlets, the event also doubles as a place where legal industry trends get discussed and reported on in real time.
Why It Matters
Worth watching if you write about the future of the legal industry in Asia-Pacific, where technology and client expectations are reshaping legal leadership fast.
Official information: Leadership in Law Singapore
14. Women, Influence & Power in Law 2026
When: September 14–16, 2026
Where: Grand Hyatt, Nashville, Tennessee
Host: Corporate Counsel and Law.com
Who it’s for: Women lawyers, general counsel, law firm partners, chief legal officers, and senior legal executives.
What to Expect
WIPL was built to address a persistent gap in the legal profession: women make up a large share of law school graduates but remain underrepresented at the equity partner and general counsel level.
Programming includes negotiation, business development, board service, and leadership in areas of the profession where women remain underrepresented at senior levels. Organizers expect more than 1,000 attendees, making it one of the largest leadership-focused legal conferences in the country.
The event brings together established legal leaders and attorneys earlier in their careers who are developing professional networks and leadership opportunities.
Why It Matters
The conference addresses the professional and structural issues that continue to affect advancement into senior law firm and in-house leadership positions.
Official information: WIPL 2026
15. ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference
When: September 16–18, 2026
Where: Red Rock Casino Resort and Spa, Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: ABA Standing Committee on Lawyers’ Professional Liability
Who it’s for: Legal malpractice lawyers, law firm risk managers, insurance professionals, firm general counsel, and ethics partners.
What to Expect
Legal malpractice occupies a specialized part of the profession because the attorney’s own conduct becomes the subject of litigation.
The conference addresses malpractice case law, conflicts of interest, billing disputes, cybersecurity failures, professional responsibility, and the role of liability insurance after a claim is filed.
The audience includes plaintiff and defense attorneys as well as the insurance industry professionals who underwrite malpractice coverage.
Why It Matters
For law firms, malpractice trends can affect insurance costs, internal policies, client relationships, and risk management practices, which makes this one of the better places to see how claims trends are actually shifting risk and premiums.
Official information: ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference
16. ABA Forum on Air and Space Law Annual Meeting
When: September 16–18, 2026
Where: The Ritz-Carlton, Denver, Colorado
Host: ABA Forum on Air and Space Law
Who it’s for: Aviation lawyers, commercial space attorneys, in-house counsel at airlines and aerospace companies, and legal professionals working in aviation regulation.
What to Expect
This is a small but genuinely specialized practice area, and the annual meeting is one of the only dedicated venues where aviation lawyers and space lawyers share an agenda.
Aviation topics include FAA regulation, aircraft finance and leasing, accident litigation, and airline liability. Commercial space sessions address launch licensing, satellite regulation, orbital debris, liability, and the development of legal rules for commercial spaceflight.
The growth of private space companies has created new legal questions that often intersect with older aviation and transportation frameworks.
Why It Matters
The meeting provides insight into two industries where technology is developing faster than many of the legal frameworks governing it, which makes it worth watching even for attorneys outside the practice area.
Official information: ABA Air and Space Law Forum
17. National Conference on Parent Representation 2026
When: September 16–17, 2026
Where: Virtual
Host: ABA Center on Children and the Law
Who it’s for: Attorneys representing parents in dependency and child welfare proceedings, along with advocates and professionals working in those systems.
What to Expect
The conference focuses on improving representation for parents when the state seeks to remove or limit custody of their children, a chronically under-resourced corner of the justice system.
Programming can include trial advocacy in dependency court, working with clients affected by trauma, housing instability, substance use, and distrust of government systems.
The virtual format is a deliberate choice, since parent representation attorneys are often public defenders or legal aid lawyers working with limited travel budgets, and going virtual removes that barrier entirely.
Why It Matters
Parent representation can have direct consequences for family relationships and custody rights, making effective legal advocacy especially important in these cases.
Official information: ABA Center on Children and the Law
18. Federal Bar Association Annual Meeting and Convention
When: September 17–19, 2026
Where: Omni Richmond, Richmond, Virginia
Host: Federal Bar Association
Who it’s for: Lawyers practicing before federal courts and agencies, including federal prosecutors, public defenders, judges, and private practitioners.
What to Expect
The Federal Bar Association’s annual meeting focuses on federal procedure, substantive federal law, and developments affecting federal practice.
A significant part of the event involves interaction with the federal judiciary. Judges regularly participate in panels and related events, giving attorneys a rare chance to hear directly about courtroom expectations and procedural pet peeves.
The program combines that judicial perspective with traditional CLE sessions on federal practice updates.
Why It Matters
Worth flagging for anyone covering federal practice news, since the judicial access is a big part of what sets this meeting apart.
Official information: Federal Bar Association Events
19. International Conference on Sustainable Real Estate Law and Green Building Regulations
When: September 17–18, 2026
Where: Florida, United States
Who it’s for: Real estate lawyers, land use attorneys, environmental counsel, and legal advisers working with developers and municipalities.
What to Expect
Sustainability requirements are increasingly appearing in building codes, municipal regulations, development rules, and environmental standards, and that shift creates real legal questions around compliance, permitting, and liability.
The conference focuses on the legal overlap between real estate development and sustainability regulation. Topics include green building compliance, energy-efficiency requirements, environmental review, permitting, and municipal incentives for sustainable construction.
Why It Matters
It is a narrower, more specialized event than most on this list, but relevant for any attorney whose real estate or land use practice is increasingly shaped by climate and sustainability regulation rather than pure zoning law.
20. ABA International Law Section Fall Conference
When: September 20–25, 2026 (pre-conference events September 20–22, main conference September 23–25)
Where: Mansion House, London, England
Host: American Bar Association, International Law Section
Who it’s for: International lawyers, cross-border law firm partners, multinational company counsel, and government legal advisers. Organizers expect more than 400 attorneys from five continents.
What to Expect
The ABA International Law Section Fall Conference is one of the section’s major events outside the US, held at Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London, and built as a direct follow-up to the section’s well-received 2024 London conference.
The program runs across seven tracks, including artificial intelligence, arbitration, finance, human rights, litigation, privacy, and trade, covering everything from cross-border AI regulation to international arbitration strategy and sanctions enforcement. The 2026 edition also ties into the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, which shapes some of the cultural programming and receptions around the core CLE sessions.
The event places significant emphasis on professional relationships. International legal work frequently requires attorneys to identify counsel in another jurisdiction, and the conference includes tours of landmark London sites and a week’s worth of dinners and receptions alongside the formal program.
Why It Matters
The breadth of the program makes it relevant to lawyers handling cross-border disputes, transactions, regulatory matters, and international compliance. A solid stop for anyone covering international law or cross-border deal work.
Official information: ABA International Law Section Fall Conference
21. Kaleidoscope 2026
When: September 22–24, 2026
Where: Encore at Wynn Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada
Host: 8am (formerly AffiniPay)
Who it’s for: Law firm owners, managing partners, and staff who already run their practice on 8am’s software, meaning LawPay, MyCase, CasePeer, DocketWise, PracticePanther, and AbacusLaw, along with firm leaders shopping for practice management or legal AI tools.
What to Expect
Kaleidoscope is 8am’s own customer conference, now in its second year, and it exists mainly to keep the company’s user base current on its products while giving small and midsize firms a place to talk shop on running a modern practice.
The 2026 agenda runs across four tracks covering firm growth strategy, legal AI adoption for small and midsize practices, and how firms are using client data to guide staffing and profitability decisions, with more than 15 hours of available CLE credit built in.
It is a smaller, more product-focused event than something like a broad legal technology conference, so the sessions lean practical: when to hire, how to scale intake, what AI tools are actually worth the subscription cost, rather than big-picture industry theory.
Why It Matters
For firms already inside the 8am ecosystem, the event provides direct access to new product features before they roll out broadly, along with practice management strategies built specifically for small and midsize firms.
Official information: Kaleidoscope 2026
22. TIPS Fidelity and Surety Law Fall Conference
When: September 24–25, 2026
Where: Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts
Host: ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section, Fidelity and Surety Law Committee
Who it’s for: Fidelity and surety lawyers, insurance claims professionals, underwriters, expert witnesses, and consultants.
What to Expect
This is a narrow corner of insurance law dealing with fidelity bonds, meaning coverage that protects businesses against losses from employee theft or dishonesty, as opposed to surety bonds, which guarantee performance on contracts.
The 2026 program, titled “One if by Paper, Two if by Computer: The Revolution of Analyzing Fidelity Claims,” is built around how fidelity claims analysis is changing as more of the underlying evidence goes digital. Sessions address employee dishonesty, subrogation, loss valuation, counterfeit money and money order schemes, and the investigation of alleged misconduct.
The program also includes a keynote on detecting deception during employee interviews, which speaks directly to how fidelity claims often turn on whether an employee’s conduct can actually be proven.
Why It Matters
For lawyers working in fidelity and surety law, the conference addresses issues specific to a practice area that rarely receives attention at broader insurance events. It is effectively the one conference built entirely around their practice.
Official information: 2026 TIPS Fidelity and Surety Law Fall Conference
23. General Counsel Conference Southwest 2026
When: September 29, 2026
Where: Arts District Mansion, Dallas, Texas
Host: Corporate Counsel and Law.com
Who it’s for: General counsel, chief legal officers, and senior in-house legal teams at Fortune 1000 and multinational companies with operations in Texas and the broader Southwest.
What to Expect
The General Counsel Conference Southwest is a one-day event designed specifically for senior in-house legal leadership, part of a broader General Counsel Conference portfolio that also runs regional editions in the Midwest, East, and internationally.
The 2026 Dallas program focuses on issues currently affecting corporate legal departments, including the new Texas Business Court, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data privacy, and pressure to manage growing workloads with limited resources.
Speakers include general counsel and chief legal officers from industries such as healthcare, energy, technology, and financial services, along with a sitting Texas Business Court judge, which gives the sessions a practical, in-house perspective rather than a law firm sales pitch.
Why It Matters
Relevant reading if you track corporate and business law coverage in Texas, where the program is closely tied to the challenges currently facing corporate legal departments in the region.
Official information: General Counsel Conference Southwest
Additional Legal Events Happening in September 2026
The 23 conferences above are the main events covered in this guide, but several other September programs may be relevant depending on a lawyer’s role.
GLL Exchange US
When: September 17, 2026
Where: New York City
An invitation-based gathering for general counsel and senior in-house legal leaders, hosted by Global Leaders in Law. The event focuses on peer discussion and legal leadership strategy rather than traditional CLE programming, and it sits inside Global Leaders in Law’s broader membership network for corporate legal leadership.
GLL Mini MBA US
When: September 22–25, 2026
Where: The Faculty Club, Boston, Massachusetts
A four-day leadership program for senior legal executives, hosted by Global Leaders in Law, focusing on change management, business strategy, and finance, with faculty drawn from Harvard and Kellogg. It is designed for lawyers who want to strengthen the business skills required for executive leadership, not attorneys looking for substantive law updates.
Symposium: The Law School of the Future
When: September 8, 2026
Where: London, England
An academic program examining how artificial intelligence, changing legal employment patterns, and technology are reshaping legal education. It is particularly relevant to legal educators, law students, and researchers interested in how law schools may adapt to changes in the profession.
A Note on the CLEI Conference
The original list under consideration included the 52nd CLEI Conference in Mexico City because some of its research areas may intersect with artificial intelligence and legal technology. However, CLEI is primarily a Latin American computer science and informatics research conference, running since 1974, rather than a legal event. It is not included among the main legal conferences in this guide, and attorneys without a research interest in computer science can safely skip it.
Which September 2026 Legal Conferences Are Best for Your Practice?
With so many events taking place in one month, most lawyers will need to choose based on their practice area, professional role, and travel budget.
Corporate and Business Law
- ABA Business Law Fall Meeting
- General Counsel Conference Southwest
- RLLB
Litigation and Trial Practice
- CAALA Vegas
- Southeastern White Collar Crime Institute
- ABA National Legal Malpractice Conference
Family Law
- IAFL Annual Meeting
- International Society of Family Law Conference
International and Cross-Border Practice
- European Society of International Law Conference
- IBA Competition Conference
- ABA International Law Section Fall Conference
Legal Operations and Technology
- RLLB
- ALPMA Summit + ALTACON
- Kaleidoscope
Legal Leadership and In-House Counsel
- Women, Influence & Power in Law
- Leadership in Law Singapore
- General Counsel Conference Southwest
- GLL Exchange US
Check back on our legal events page throughout the month, as we will be covering announcements and recaps from several of these as they happen.
The Bottom Line
September 2026 offers an unusually broad range of legal conferences across practice areas and jurisdictions. Corporate lawyers can focus on regulation and in-house management, trial lawyers have major plaintiff-side and white collar programs, and family lawyers can choose between practitioner-focused and academic international events. Attorneys working in privacy, aviation, insurance, real estate, and international law also have specialized programs during the month.
Before registering, review the final agenda, CLE availability, speaker list, and attendance requirements. The best event is the one that gives you information and professional connections directly relevant to your practice, not necessarily the largest conference on the calendar.
Last updated on: September 04, 2026
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