If you look at this year’s ABA Techshow advertising material, you could be forgiven for thinking that you were reading a comic book. Between the cartoon-style illustrations and the comic book-style captions and headings on the brochure and website, it’s clear what motif that the Techshow planners were going for was.
Perhaps that’s appropriate, given how quickly generative artificial intelligence tools have established a foothold in the legal industry. Like a superhero—or perhaps more accurately, a superhero’s sidekick—AI has helped save the day for a lot of lawyers.
Of course, comics also bring up another image for AI—one that isn’t so warm and fuzzy. So is generative AI more like Robin, Kato or Krypto the Superdog? Or is it more like Skynet, Brainiac or Ultron? Or maybe somewhere in between?
In this episode of the Legal Rebels Podcast, ABA Techshow 2026 co-chairs Brett Burney and Patrick Wright talk with the ABA Journal’s Victor Li about what to expect at this year’s event, which will take place from March 25 to 28 at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago.
Burney is the founder of Burney Consultants in Ohio, which provides e-discovery consulting and litigation support and teaches lawyers how to use Mac computers in their everyday practice.
Wright is the managing partner of the Wright Firm, a family law practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area.
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In This Podcast:
Brett Burney
Brett Burney is the founder of Burney Consultants in Ohio, which provides e-discovery consulting and litigation support and teaches lawyers how to use Mac computers in their everyday practice. Burney spent over five years at Thompson Hine, where he worked with litigation teams in building document databases, counseling on electronic discovery issues and supporting them at trial. He graduated from the University of Dayton School of Law in 2000 and quickly became active in the world of legal technology.
Patrick Wright
Patrick Wright is the managing partner of the Wright Firm, a family law practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, area. Wright earned his bachelor of arts degree in political science from the University of North Texas and his JD from the South Texas College of Law in Houston. He is board certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and board certified in child welfare law in Texas.