I cannot think of anything worse. I spend my working hours avoiding speculative vendors, last thing I want to do is give them a captive audience let alone justify my Firm's IT spend to them. I am focussing my time on serving the needs of my Firm, rather than attending events where I can see no obvious benefit in the short term. Raise this again in 12 months time when the vendors hopefully will have something more innovative and their businesses are aligned to the changing legal market. The recession should give them that opportunity. Lets face it the boom times where vendors can sell software that sits on a shelf for a few months while law firm IT Departments ponder how best to implement it are thankfully long gone...