Regulations for the recently enacted financial reform law are months away, but law firms with strong financial services practices are rolling out the welcome mat for client conferences and filling their calendars with client meetings.

Debevoise & Plimpton of New York, for example, attracted 325 attendees to a July 8 conference organized with one week’s notice, including the July 4 holiday weekend, said Greg Lyons, co-chairman of the firm’s financial institutions group for the Americas.