If you’re a legaltech startup, I don’t want to spook you, but Halloween is the last day to submit your application for one of 15 spots in the fourth-annual Startup Alley at ABA TECHSHOW, the American Bar Association’s annual legal technology conference, taking place in Chicago Feb. 26-29, 2020.
The final deadline for applying is this Thursday, Oct. 31, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time. This is your last chance to be one of 15 companies selected to receive space in a special portion of TECHSHOW’s exhibition hall and to participate in an opening night pitch competition, judged by TECHSHOW attendees, to pick the most innovative startup idea.
Startups interested in participating should complete this application form.
From all applications received, a panel of five judges will select 25 finalists. On Nov. 18, 2019, brief descriptions of each of the 25 will be posted on the ABA TECHSHOW blog, Above the Law and LawSites, and readers will be invited to vote for their favorites. The 15 startups with the most votes will be selected for TECHSHOW. Winners will be announced on Dec. 9.
Criteria for Applying
The competition is limited to startups that meet the following criteria:
Your product or service is targeted to lawyers or legal professionals, not to consumers. Your company has never before exhibited at a national legal technology conference. Your company has achieved some demonstrable traction, either in users or financing. You were not one of the prior years’ winners selected to present at TECHSHOW in the 2017, 2018 or 2019 Startup Alley.
In addition, your company should be innovative, meaning that it addresses a need not met by other products or services currently on the market or that it does so in a way not currently done by others.
If You Are Selected
The winning startups will
