I spent four days in Las Vegas last week attending the Rhodium Summit. It is one of the few conferences I consider a can’t miss (and also one of the few times each year I get to see any of my clients in person). I do wish the event were somewhere else, though. The hotel this year was on a more isolated section of the strip so there were fewer restaurants available. Being in a Vegas casino is always a bit disorienting anyway since there are deliberately no clocks or windows on or near the casino floor. This wasn’t helped by the daytime highs in excess of 100 degrees that largely kept me inside. But enough about the negatives.

There are no pay-to-play speakers at Rhodium. Each of the talks is voted on by the attendees. My topic about drilling down on particular client avatars did not garner enough votes for me to get a speaking spot, but I suppose that was always likely given that it is a conference for digital entrepreneurs and I run a law firm. The event is three full days of content, workshops, mastermind sessions, meals, and being surrounded by other people living a similar professional life. One of the great parts for me now is that I’m able to reconnect with people and follow along with their journeys from afar as this was my third year attending. There can be a loneliness to operating a remote business that is rarely discussed, but a conference like this is a reminder that there are others like me.

Coming back from this year’s Rhodium, my immediate business focus is on trying a few AI workflows that other people have used to great effect. We don’t prospect in quite the same way as any of the other conference attendees, but there are a few tools and methods I’m going to try in order to see how well they transfer to the law firm context. Something will work, but I’m not going to even try to handicap which thing it will be.