ABA TECHSHOW 2027: An Honest Overview
ABA TECHSHOW is the legal industry's technology event — a focused EXPO of software vendors wrapped around CLE education at McCormick Place. The floor is mostly software, so booths run live demos and need reliable screens, clean power and a space to talk, rather than heavy product. It is a smaller, mostly inline-and-small-island show than the big McCormick conventions, but it is still in McCormick Place, which means the same four-union labor rules apply even to a modest booth. The 2027 edition is March 3–6. Chicago is a freight market for us, so the page leans on warehouse pre-build and our existing McCormick knowledge.
Why Exhibit Rentals for ABA TECHSHOW
We do not warehouse in Chicago, so for ABA TECHSHOW we pre-build and inspect your stand in Las Vegas, you approve preview photos, then it ships and our certified crew installs at McCormick — coordinating the house unions even for a small footprint. One signed quote covers design, build, graphics, lighting, round-trip freight, install and dismantle, with McCormick labor and drayage planned in. For a software-demo floor that means reliable monitor mounting, clean power and cable management are engineered before the booth ships, and McCormick is familiar ground for our crew.
Exhibiting at ABA TECHSHOW
Exhibiting at ABA TECHSHOW: what the legal-tech floor rewards. TECHSHOW is a demo-and-relationship show for legal software. The buyers are lawyers and legal-ops professionals evaluating tools, so the booth's job is to run a reliable live demo and give those buyers a place to sit and talk. That means secure, well-placed screens, clean power and cabling, and a small meeting space — uptime and conversation, not heavy structure. Most booths are inline or small islands, which keeps the build modest but does not exempt it from McCormick's rules.
Who exhibits: practice-management and document software, AI and research tools, e-discovery, cybersecurity, billing and payments, and legal-ops platforms. The design risk is technical reliability and labor coordination rather than structure.
Logistics: TECHSHOW is at McCormick Place, a freight market and four-union floor, so pre-build, demo engineering and labor coordination are the decisions that matter even at a small footprint. We assemble and inspect in Las Vegas, you approve photos, and our crew installs at McCormick with labor and drayage scoped in. Lock your design about ten weeks out given freight and the McCormick move-in.
