[marcellus23]

> 1. There seems to be sanctioned and "external events". It happened at an external event. But it seems to have been some event related to the conference.

"Then they hit up a bar called The Three Monkeys, not far from the Hilton conference hotel in Midtown Manhattan." It sounds like they just went to get drinks at a bar. It being near the conference venue is meaningless, this is midtown Manhattan, there's 10 bars on every block and probably half a dozen conferences going on at any given time.

Someone else already addressed your second point.

> 3. It was a "legal tech" conference. What?

"Legalweek New York is the one week in which thousands of legal professionals gather to explore the Business and Regulatory Trends, Technology and Talent drivers impacting the industry" (from https://www.event.law.com/legalweek/who-we-are)

Any conference in any industry is probably going to involve technology at least a bit, because it's 2024 and technology is everywhere. That doesn't make it a "tech conference".