Next week, I’m participating as a presenter in a unique legal conference.
The conference is being put on by AffiniPay’s legal brands (AffiniPay is the parent company of LawPay, MyCase,Docketwise and CASEpeer). It’s been billed as a live webinar. Unlike traditional conferences, this one blends in-person and virtual elements: the presenters will gather live in Austin, but attendees will tune in remotely.
AffiniPay describes the Event as a place where “top experts discuss the biggest shifts shaping the legal landscape. Looking at the agenda and the presenters, I don’t think this is hype. The Virtual Legal Seminar 2025 takes place on March 11 from 1-4 PM Eastern. The setup itself is intriguing: it’s a live webinar, but it avoids the usual drawbacks of long, drawn-out online events. You can register here.
The fact that it’s a live webinar is unique in and of itself but there are some other intriguing features as well. While there is a CLE presentation by Claude Ducloux entitled The Intelligent Practitioner – Client Communication, Cybersecurity, Finances & Intelligent Billing that lasts an hour, the rest of the Seminar consists of something AffiniPay is calling Fire Sessions. The goal of these sessions, according to AffiniPay “is to provide legal professionals with free, invaluable education content in addition to 1 hour of CLE credit.
The Fire Sessions
Fire Sessions are short, 20-minute, rapid-fire discussions between two panelists, guided by a moderator. With limited time and multiple panelists tackling key questions, these sessions require clear, impactful insights—no fluff, no wasted minutes. Since there will be several questions and two panelists for each session, we each have to be concise and articulate. According to Keely Leonard, AffiniPay’s Senior Director of Communications, “The fire session format was created for our virtual legal seminars as a way to provide 20 minutes of high-impact, topic-focused content…”
That’s a little rare among legal Seminars which sometimes consist of lengthy hour-long