Legal Innovation Awards 

The WLA Legal Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding innovation in the legal industry. 

Apply for an Innovation Award

Meet the Judges

WLA Legal Innovation Awards judges are all highly respected experts in legal, tech business

About the Innovation Awards Program

The program recognizes two levels of honorees among the product categories:

• Honoree: The top scoring professionals or firms in each category.
• Best of Innovation: The best of the best – the highest-rated across all categories.

The program is open to any individual, firm, organization or authorized agent who belongs to the legal industry. 

A panel of industry expert judges review applications in each product category based on specific criteria.

Apply for a wla 2024 Legal Innovation Awards

Award Benefits

• Logo and usage rights for the award granted
• Innovation Awards trophy
• Industry-wide recognition through Program’s media promotion 
• Honored product displayed in the Innovation Awards honoree listing on CES.tech, the official CES website 
• ​Official in-person CES 2023 exhibitors have the opportunity to display honored product in the Innovation Awards Showcase at CES 2023 

The same product may be submitted into a maximum of three (3) categories with a separate entry fee for each category submitted.

If the applicant is not a WLA Member at the time of submission, the applicant may become one and request a refund of the difference in entry pricing per submission.

Interested in becoming a WLA member? Contact Membership@worldlawalliance.com

Entry Criteria

Entries must be submitted online. 

Honoree Selection

A panel of industry expert judges review applications in each category based on the evaluation criteria below and the top scoring products are designated as honorees.

The program recognizes two (2) levels of honorees among the product categories:

• Honoree: The top scoring Products in each category.
• Best of Innovation: The highest-rated products across all categories. Best of Innovation in each category is not guaranteed.

Evaluation Criteria 

All entries are reviewed and scored based on the following criteria:

• What makes the professional, firm, or their product or service unique and innovative
• evaluated on whether the innovation helps people tackle the most pressing problems including Community, Economic, Environmental, Food, Health, Mobility, Personal or Political as defined in the application.

Applicants in all categories will be notified via email by mid-October of their status. 

All award designations by the judges are final.

Reveal of Innovation Award Honorees

Innovation Award honorees are revealed to the public by listing on the Innovation Awards page on worldlawalliance.com based on the following schedule.