EDTX Bench Bar Conference 2026

EDTX Bench Bar Conference 2026 is held at the Worthington Hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

Judges, lawyers, topic speakers and other participants attend, with participation drawn from across the country and globe.

It is most useful for federal litigators and judges who work in the Eastern District of Texas, since the audience is federal judges and lawyers from that district and beyond, and a bench bar setting lets both sides talk in the same room. Lawyers who want a large exhibit hall or deep practice-area training would get less from a meeting held at a single hotel, the Worthington in Fort Worth, with Amal Clooney as the featured speaker on human rights.

Attendees at bench bar conferences usually wear business formal or business professional, with suits and ties for men and suits or tailored dresses for women, since judges and practising lawyers attend. Receptions in a downtown Fort Worth hotel in late October are typically business casual to cocktail, so a jacket suits both the sessions and the evenings.

The organizer describes it as one of the nation's top annual bench bar conferences and says it draws participants from across the country and globe.

The listed audience includes federal judges and lawyers from the Eastern District of Texas and beyond, as well as topic speakers and other participants.