This past week, some of our BoostDraft team members attended LegalTechTalk 2025, held at the Intercontinental O2 in London. Here’s a look at how the event unfolded, and why it proved to be a landmark moment for legal technology.

1. A Thriving Showcase of Global Legal Tech

We hosted a booth amid a bustling exhibition floor filled with hundreds of legal tech vendors from across the globe. With sessions and demo stations covering everything from cutting-edge AI and analytics to blockchain and cybersecurity, the event spotlighted the impressive growth and innovation occurring across the legal tech landscape.

Takeaway: There’s no shortage of technology solutions. The challenge is finding the right tech for your team when there are so many options.

2. A Diverse, Engaged Audience

With over 4,000 senior legal professionals in attendance — including in-house counsel, law firm leaders, startups, and solution providers — LegalTechTalk was truly global. Attendees traveled from across Europe, North America, Asia, and beyond, demonstrating a strong appetite to explore, evaluate, and implement new technologies.

Takeaway: Buyers are ready to engage, and vendors are meeting them with a variety of compelling solutions. The demand for impactful legal tech is real.

3. The Broader Program: 300 Speakers, 70+ Sessions

LegalTechTalk blended exhibition time with deep-dive content across six themed tracks, including compliance, collaboration, evolution of the legal field, purpose-driven law, democratization of access to justice, and the intersection of law and technology.

Highlighted panels and features included:

• Ethical AI & data privacy
  
  
• Phasing out the billable hour
  
  
• In-house innovation vs. the “echo chamber”
  
  
• Interactive formats such as a LegalTech hackathon
  
  
• Thought leadership from firms including DWF, Dentsu, Microsoft, PWC, Zurich, and more

Takeaway: Attendees had the option to pivot between big-picture, strategic insights and deep, tactical content — ideal for mapping vision to execution.

4. Real-World Challenges in Legal Tech Adoption

We attended a session on “Tech Decision Fatigue: Making Smart Choices in a Crowded Legal Marketplace.” Here’s what resonated most:

• Accuracy matters just as much as efficiency: New tools must deliver precision — a sticky point for risk-sensitive professionals.
  
  
• Balancing vendor size and stability: A key decision axis for buyers is start-up agility and responsiveness to buyer needs versus the perceived reliability of larger firms.
  
  
• Budget and risk: Attendees wrestled with upfront costs, integration risks, and the possibility of vendor M&A — and its impact on long-term support.
  

• Emotional and behavioral friction: Everyday users may resist change because of overwhelming workloads or comfort with old processes. Adoption incentives, such as training, recognition, and workflow integration, are critical.

Takeaway: It’s not just what the tech does — it's who you buy it from, how you roll it out, and why your team will actually use it.

5. What We’re Taking Back to BoostDraft

Our team came away with actionable insights that reinforce our approach to serving customers:

• Accuracy is table stakes: Demonstrating precision in document insights and suggested edits remains fundamental to adoption.
  
  
• Vendor reliability is key: Tech vendors must focus on the entire user experience, from initial conversations with buyers through ongoing, post-sale support. It’s a relationship, not just a transaction.
  

• Narrative matters: Many booths felt the pressure of feature overload. People appreciate solutions that provide practical benefits today, rather than just a flashy roadmap or hypothetical scenarios.

Final Thoughts

LegalTechTalk 2025 confirmed what we already knew: the legal sector is hungry for intelligent, trustworthy technology — and vendors need to demonstrate both product excellence and emotional intelligence in deployment.

If you want to see what that looks like in practice, get in touch with us.