LegalTech New York, for all intents and purposes, has become a no-less-than-five day event. With the Tuesday-Thursday schedule, parties and briefings kick into high gear on Monday; pushing travel days to Sunday (or Saturday, if you are paranoid wise about typical winter weather). Arguably, it was a bit risky—or flat-out brilliant— to schedule ReInvent Law NYC for Friday, Feb. 7. The upside: Capitalize on the hordes of technology leaders who will already be in New York. The downside: Will their brain cells be completely fried?

But the organizers, associate professors Daniel Martin Katz and Renee Newman Knake, of Michigan State University College of Law, borrowed a page from TED Talks, and offered a format that was bound to keep the attention of the most ADD-addled LTNY attendee: a full day of (mostly) six-minute talks. Yes, just six short minutes for each speaker in the three blocks of time allocated to “Ignite Sessions.” Even the slightly longer “ReInvent Law Talks” were brief, and the two celebrity speakers didn’t get the usual hour to pontificate: Cisco’s Mark Chandler was allocated 25 minutes right after lunch; Richard Susskind, the godfather of legal renovation, was assigned a mere 30 minutes for his closing address.

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