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  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 26, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    COVID Stories: Sidestepping Doomscrolling and Staying Sane During Coronavirus
    New Study Shows Troubling Disconnect Between HR and Employees
    The ‘Rules’ For Working From Home – including why some of the “rules” should be ignored in favor of what works for you.
    Why More Companies are Offering a Four-Day Workweek
    How to Check Your Devices for Stalkerware
    Craig Ball Just Published a New Exemplar Preservation Letter
    Tech Sector Job Interviews Assess Anxiety, Not Software Skills
    Three Keys to Avoid Microsoft Teams Data Swamp
    No Brainer – Turn on 2FA Now!
    Poor Work-Life Balance Linked to Poor Health
    Five Great Reads on eDiscovery for July 2020
    How to Know If You’ve Been Hacked, and What to Do About It

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    The Implications of Working Without an Office

    The Explosion of Organizational Data is at a Tipping Point: Here’s How to Understand What You Have and Mitigate Risk

    This Big Law Firm Has Permanent Plans for Remote Working

    Zooming from video meetings to discovery requests about video meetings

    How To Enable Ransomware Protection Feature on Windows 10

    Coronavirus: The Expert’s Practical Guide to Job Searching During Self Containment

    Discovery from Microsoft Office 365

    Deloitte Takes Aim at U.S. Legal Services Market With Tech Unit

    – Not really a surprise, the Big 4 have been moving significantly into this area, and thanks to COVID layoffs, lots of in-house teams are doing with less, looking for options.

    10 Tips for Job Searching When You Also Have Depression

    Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

    – Interesting, but dangerous if they can’t get the bias out of the #AI

    Beware of the Perils of Allowing Self-Collection

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 12, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Ways companies can measure workers’ mental health

    A Professional Recruiter’s Top 5 Insider Tips for Stress-free Networking and Interviewing

    Law Firms Are Seeing Renewed Competition—from Clients
    – “Corporate legal teams, under the gun to cut costs and empowered by powerfully simple technology, are increasingly in-housing work that was once sent to outside counsel.”

    The pandemic is wrecking the typical 9-to-5 workday. Good riddance.

    Be aware of how anxiety affects your job search skills

    No Excuse Not to Use a Password Manager

    Working Through a Personal Crisis

    The Expanding Role and Influence of the Modern Litigation Support or E-Discovery Manager

    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Side Of AI

    Stop Using 123456 as a Password

    Tell Congress to Vote Yes on Giving Us All Access to Affordable, High-Speed Internet
    – If much of the world moves to #WFH, affordable internet will be the dividing line for who can work, and who cannot.

    Gender Pay Gap Wide Atop In-House Counsel Ladder, May Be Closing

    Exif Data: What is it?

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    Linked: 3 eDiscovery Lessons From COVID-19 Shutdown

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

    The first line of the first lesson is one I totally agree with: “It’s said that major events don’t so much change our culture as they simply reveal what was already there.” I feel like Jeff should have reminded himself of that first line when writing the rest of it, because yes, it’s true that…

  • Shut Up and Encrypt

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    While watching the Alex Winter film about the Panama Papers, this quote stood out to me, given all of the talk about the “dangers” of encryption.

    While working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in the early days of investigating the data leaked from the Mossack Fonseca law firm, the importance of not letting anyone know that the data had leaked, or that it was all being investigated, was paramount, so they lived with this slogan:

    “Shut Up and Encrypt”