The Short List
- Best overall for personal injury firms: PIMCON (Oct 4–6, 2026, Scottsdale)
- Best for in-house legal marketers: LMA Annual
- Best for Crisp coaching members: Game Changers Summit
- Best festival-style networking: Law-Di-Gras
- Best for solo and small-firm owners: MaxLawCon
Four of the eleven conferences worth your time in 2026 land in October, and three of them fall inside eight days. Law-Di-Gras runs October 1–3, PIMCON October 4–6, and MaxLawCon October 7–9. No firm owner attends all three and gets value from any of them. That collision is the real planning problem, and it means picking well matters more than attending all of them.
Below are the 9 conferences to keep on your 2026 radar, with exact dates & locations.
2026–2027 Legal Marketing Conferences at a Glance
| Conference | 2026 Dates | Location | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| PIMCON | Oct 4–6 | Scottsdale, AZ | Personal injury firms: marketing and intake |
| Game Changers Summit | Nov 11–12 | Atlanta, GA | Crisp coaching members only |
| Law-Di-Gras | Oct 1–3, 2026 | San Diego, CA | Festival-style PI networking and education |
| MaxLawCon | Oct 7–9, 2026 | [Confirm at maximumlawyer.com] | Solo and small-firm owners |
| LMA Annual | Mar 22–24, 2027 | Seattle, , WA | In-house and agency legal marketers |
| cj Conference | TBA | Nashville, TN | Established PI firms (invite-only) |
| Trial Lawyers Summit | Jan 24–27, 2027 | Miami, FL | Trial lawyers, CLE, and networking |
| Legalweek | Mar 1-3, 2027 | New York, NY | Big-picture legal industry and tech |
| TBI Med Legal | February 25–27, 2027 | San Diego, CA | PI and med-mal lawyers handling brain injury |
1. PIMCON (Personal Injury Mastermind Conference)
📅 October 4–6, 2026
📍 The Phoenician, Scottsdale, AZ
🎤 Rankings.io
If you run or market a personal injury firm, Rankings.io built PIMCON end to end for you. Now in its third year, PIMCON grew out of the Personal Injury Mastermind podcast and has become the national gathering for PI marketing and intake. The 2026 edition runs October 4–6 at The Phoenician, a five-diamond resort in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The 2026 theme, Lead to Legacy, explains what separates PIMCON from a general marketing conference. Marketing creates opportunity. Intake converts it. Leadership sustains it. Sessions run the entire client journey, from the first click to the signed case: SEO and AI search, paid social, referral networks, reputation, firm funding, and the intake systems that turn search into signed cases.
The speaker lineup runs on operators who have built firms:
- Morris Bart (Founder, Morris Bart LLC) built Louisiana's largest PI firm across 15 offices and pioneered TV advertising for injury attorneys. [Session topic to confirm]
- Angie Flury (Chief Call Center Officer, Morgan & Morgan) runs intake for the largest personal injury firm in the country, with more than 1,500 staff across 11 departments. [Session topic to confirm]
- Brian LaBovick (LaBovick Law Group) breaks down how to build the five-star review systems that hold brand equity in a market long term.
- Gary Falkowitz (host, The Intake Playbook), Yani Smith (Legal Intake Pros), James Carlson (COO, Angel Reyes & Associates), Amanda Demanda (owner of Amanda Demanda Injury Lawyers)
- ], and Shawn Denney (Chief Strategy Officer, Rankings.io) round out the program.
The room matters as much as the agenda. Between sessions you get VIP dinners, a long-ball competition, goat yoga, and a headline comedy set from Iliza Shlesinger. The relationships that come out of those hours draw PI firms back every year.
Best for: Personal injury attorneys, firm owners, and PI-focused marketers who want marketing and intake under one roof and a room full of high-performing peers.
Tickets and the full agenda are at pimcon.org. Hear the conversations that fuel it on the Personal Injury Mastermind podcast.
PIMCON is our event. We host it, and we still rank it first because it is the only national conference built specifically for personal injury marketing and intake. We list exact dates, locations, and an honest read on fit for every other option below, so you can judge what works for your firm.
2. Game Changers Summit
📅 November 11–12, 2026
📍 Atlanta, GA
🎤 Crisp / Michael Mogill
Crisp hosts the Game Changers Summit for the firms inside its coaching programs. Keynotes and breakout sessions focus on the year ahead: positioning, brand, and the growth decisions that sit with the owner. Crisp brings in celebrity speakers and high-production entertainment, and the attendee list skews toward high-revenue firms and their business development leads. All this makes the hallway conversations as useful as the stage.
Michael Mogill founded Crisp and wrote The Game Changing Attorney. His thinking sets the tone for the event.
Best for: Owners who hold an active Crisp coaching membership (ELITE, PREMIER, SELECT, or CrispX). Attendance in 2026 is members only and closed to the general public.
3. Law-Di-Gras
📅 October 1–3, 2026
📍 Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego, CA
🎤 National Trial Lawyers
Law-Di-Gras blends legal marketing and practice management education with a festival atmosphere, and has become one of the most talked-about events on the PI calendar. Sessions lean into marketing, intake, and scaling a plaintiff practice. The setting stays loose and the networking runs long.
Best for: Personal injury and plaintiff firms that want high-energy networking and marketing content without the conference-hall formality. It opens three days ahead of PIMCON in the same October window, so most owners pick one.
4. MaxLawCon
📅 October 7–9, 2026
📍 Atlanta, Georgia
🎤 Maximum Lawyer community
MaxLawCon is the annual conference from the Maximum Lawyer community, and it has become a favorite among solo and small-firm owners who want practical growth tactics. Sessions cover marketing, systems, hiring, and mindset, delivered by practitioners building their own firms. Speakers share real numbers and real process, and that openness is the draw.
Best for: Solo attorneys and small-firm owners who want actionable marketing and operations tactics inside a tight-knit, entrepreneurial community.
5. Legal Marketing Association Annual Conference
📅 March 22-24, 2027
📍 Seattle, Washington.
🎤 Legal Marketing Association
The Legal Marketing Association runs the largest and longest-established event for legal marketers. More than 1,000 marketers, business development professionals, and agency-side practitioners attend across three days in a rotating location. Sessions focus squarely on marketing and client acquisition, which makes this the strongest option for anyone who wants to hear what is working inside firms across the country.
Best for: In-house legal marketers, business development professionals, and agency-side marketers who want the broadest, most established legal marketing event.
6. cj Conference
📅 TBA
📍 Nashville, TN
🎤 cj Advertising (invite-only)
cj Advertising runs an invite-only gathering that brings together many of the largest and fastest-growing personal injury firms in the country. Because the guest list stays curated, the rooms fill with high-revenue firm owners and executives trading candid strategy on advertising, brand, and scale. The peer level is the entire value.
Best for: Established, higher-revenue PI firms that want to benchmark against the biggest players. Attendance is by invitation only.
7. Trial Lawyers Summit
📅 January 24–27, 2027
📍 Miami, FL
🎤 National Trial Lawyers
The Trial Lawyers Summit opens the year with more than 1,500 civil plaintiff and criminal defense attorneys across four days of programming, networking, and CLE credit. The agenda weighs litigation and courtroom skills over marketing, but the business-of-law sessions earn the trip for firms that want CLE and growth content in one January stop.
Best for: Trial lawyers who want CLE credit, courtroom-skills content, and broad plaintiff-bar networking to start the year.
8. Legalweek
📅 March 1-3, 2027
📍 New York, NY
🎤 ALM
ALM runs Legalweek, the longest-running tradeshow in the legal industry. The agenda covers the big picture: enterprise legal operations, technology, and where the industry is heading, with a thinner marketing track running through it. Past years have drawn more than 6,000 attendees. Anyone hunting specifically for marketing content needs to build a deliberate session schedule before arriving.
Best for: Lawyers who want the big-picture state of the legal industry, heavy on tech and enterprise, and do not mind a very large crowd.
9. TBI Med Legal Conference
📅 February 25–27, 2027
📍 San Diego, CA
🎤 Brain Injury Association of California
The Brain Injury Association of California runs this four-day conference for lawyers handling traumatic brain injury cases. Multiple tracks cover the medical side of TBI litigation, and the event bills itself as medical school for lawyers. That focus makes it valuable for case work and largely irrelevant for marketing, so it earns a spot here only for firms whose caseload justifies the four days.
Best for: PI, med-mal, and workers' comp attorneys who handle traumatic brain injury cases and want deep medical-legal education.
Also Worth Knowing: Practice-Area and CLE Events
One more event earns a mention without earning a ranking. The American Bar Association's Annual Labor and Employment Law Conference builds every track around a single practice area, which makes it the fastest route to employment law CLE credit. Marketing tactics show up in the margins rather than on the agenda.
What a Conference Has to Offer to Justify the Trip
A conference earns its cost when you come back with something you can act on. Judge each option against what it returns:
- Referral partners who send you cases
- A shortlist of tactics you can test inside 30 days
- A read on what competitors in your market spend, and where
- Pricing and fee structures you can benchmark against your own
- A 12-month growth plan built outside the daily grind
- Positioning that brings inbound opportunities to you
Pick one conference this year and commit to it. One event you work hard beats three you attend passively.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Law Firm Marketing Conferences
What is the best marketing conference for personal injury lawyers?
For personal injury firms, PIMCON is the most focused option. It is the only national event built entirely around PI marketing and intake, and it runs October 4 through 6, 2026, in Scottsdale, AZ. Law-Di-Gras and MaxLawCon cover adjacent ground for plaintiff firms and small-firm owners. LMA's Annual Conference fits in-house legal marketers best.
When and where is PIMCON 2026?
PIMCON 2026 takes place October 4 through 6, 2026, at The Phoenician resort in Scottsdale, Arizona. Rankings.io hosts the event alongside the Personal Injury Mastermind community. Chris Dreyer, founder and CEO of Rankings.io, started both. Register at pimcon.org.
What legal marketing conferences should I attend in 2026?
Eleven are worth planning around:
- PIMCON (Oct 4–6, 2026, Scottsdale)
- Law-Di-Gras (Oct 1–3, 2026, San Diego)
- MaxLawCon (Oct 7–9, 2026, Atlanta)
- Game Changers Summit (Nov 11–12, 2026, Atlanta)
- LMA Annual (March 22-24, 2027, Seattle)
- cj Conference (TBA, Nashville)
- Trial Lawyers Summit (Jan 24–27, 2027, Miami)
- TBI Med Legal (February 25–27, 2027, San Diego)
- Legalweek (Mar 1-3, 2027, New York)
Pick based on your practice area and whether you want marketing, tech, or CLE.
Are any of these conferences invite-only or members-only?
Yes. The Game Changers Summit opens only to active Crisp coaching members, and the cj Conference runs by invitation for established personal injury firms. PIMCON, Law-Di-Gras, MaxLawCon, LMA and sell tickets to the general public.
How much does it cost to attend PIMCON?
PIMCON 2026 general admission runs roughly $1,250 to $1,999 depending on how early you buy. A VIP option for about $5,500 adds hotel, a VIP dinner, and concierge access. Check pimcon.org for current pricing.
Which conference is best if I only attend one?
If you run a personal injury firm and can attend only one, choose PIMCON for the tightest fit on PI marketing and intake. If you are an in-house or agency legal marketer across practice areas, choose the LMA Annual Conference. If you hold a Crisp coaching membership, the Game Changers Summit is built for you.