What to Expect
Enjoy a fine dining experience at Buddakan while engaging in a night of great drinks and networking.
Join Malbek and TruLegal for a carefully curated dinner at the ACC Annual Meeting in Philly.

Enjoy a fine dining experience at Buddakan while engaging in a night of great drinks and networking.
Whether you’re craving a cutting-edge Asian-influenced cocktail, hand-made dumplings or a full dinner seated at our dramatic communal table, let Buddakan help you escape across the globe — if only for an evening.
Beloved dishes like edamame dumplings, spicy rock shrimp bao buns, and tea smoked spare ribs share menu space with ambitious entrees that marry daring influences from East, West and beyond.
While the magnificent, 10-foot-tall Buddha is likely the first thing to catch your eye, it’s the Modern Asian cuisine that will leave a lasting impression.
Come enjoy a fine dining experience
An elegant dining experience paired with insightful discussions with CLM and Legal leaders across the globe.
For over two decades, Matt Patel has a passion for modernizing contract lifecycle management through process optimization and innovative technology. Matt aims to solve complex business challenges with the ideal combination of modern technology and process, to achieve the highest level of customer satisfaction. As COO and co-founder at Malbek, Matt is focused on delivering an enterprise CLM solution, with trusted AI and essential integrations to bring contracts into the digital age. Matt enjoys a variety of hobbies outside of work including skiing in the winter and water gardening in the summer. When you meet Matt, be sure to ask him about his koi pond!
Tom Stephenson is the Chief Revenue Officer at TruLegal, where he leads the firm’s growth strategy, client delivery, and enterprise partnerships to strengthen corporate legal departments, global law firms, and the professionals who power them. He brings more than a decade of leadership experience from Credit Karma, Teladoc Health, Legal.io, and Chicago-based law firms, where he managed enterprise budgets, scaled global teams, and advanced technology adoption to deliver measurable client value and long-term organizational growth. Outside of work, Tom shares his love of Ohio in unexpected ways and considers Bracketology his favorite (and entirely valid) mathematical superpower.