Industry Conferences & Events
We host a broad range of signature conferences, Power Lunches, and Industry Insight Events throughout the year, featuring top experts in their fields and focusing on areas that make Boston a hub of research and innovation. Tapping into our city’s network of higher education institutions, science and technology companies, hospitals, financial institutions, and law firms, we offer unique and immersive educational and networking experiences that bring together in-house counsel and private practitioners.
Women in Life Sciences Power Lunch Series
Privacy & Cybersecurity Conference
White Collar Criminal Law Conference
This annual event brings together law firm defense counsel, government prosecutors, in-house counsel, judges, and corporate professionals for the signature professional development and networking event for Boston’s white-collar crime bar. Panel discussions provide timely guidance and analysis on recent white-collar crime cases and practice developments, followed by a networking reception.
Higher Education Legal Conference
The Boston Bar Association’s 2025 Higher Education Legal Conference brings together college and university in-house lawyers, administrators, and firm practitioners to discuss the complex legal needs of higher education institutions in a changing world.
Bankruptcy Bench Meets Bar Conference
This is an annual opportunity for bankruptcy professionals and Federal Bankruptcy Court Judges to meet and share insights, observations, and analysis on key issues for 2024 and beyond.
Energy Law Conference
The energy sector is rapidly changing, bringing about complex legal and regulatory challenges, along with emerging opportunities. The BBA’s annual Energy Law Conference connects lawyers with cutting edge insights into some of the changes that are shaping the sale, use, and conservation of energy resources.
Industry Insights: The State of Office Real Estate in Boston
Join industry experts, attorneys, and municipal leaders for a briefing on the state of office in Boston including tax impacts, the status of office to residential pilot programs, and the future of real estate and urban planning in downtown.
Life Sciences Conference
Home to biotech startups, leading research institutions, multinational pharmaceutical companies, and venture capital firms, Boston is at the forefront of the life science industry. Amidst these emerging technologies and rapidly expanding business sectors, come new legal issues. This conference brings together industry leaders and experts to explore the interplay between the life sciences sector and the law, spanning across corporate, regulatory, and IP law.
Health Law Conference
Each year, practitioners working within the health care sector come together for important updates on a variety of legal issues and developments affecting providers and institutions, payers, insurers, physicians and medical groups, and pharmaceutical and medical device companies.
Employment Law Conference
Employment laws protect employees from discriminatory treatment, unfair labor practices, unsafe work conditions, and more. With thousands of employment law firms and professionals in Boston, this conference provides practitioners with an opportunity to network and learn from industry experts on critical developments to help better advise clients in this ever-changing landscape.
Trade Secrets and Restrictive Covenants
Serving practitioners working in trade secret and restrictive covenant protection and litigation, this conference covers state and federal developments, practical guidance for mitigating risk during the departure of key employees, insights from the bench, and key practice tips for both outside counsel and in-house lawyers.
IP Year In Review Conference
The 2024 conference featured in-house speakers alongside expert practitioners from top firms covering the most pivotal court decisions, legislative reforms, and rule changes in the ever-shifting landscape of IP law.