Linked: ‘Don’t Label Clients as the Problem’: General Counsel Respond to Claims They Are at Fault for Mental Health Crisis
There is clearly a mental health issue in the legal industry, but who is really to blame? That’s not so clear and clients aren’t taking the blame laying down – “The response follows the most recent piece in Law.com’s “Minds … Continued
Quick Thought – FaceApp as Russian Scare
The recent flap about the FaceApp “old age” filter is somewhat instructive. As soon as it started going viral, there were scary media reports about how the company was stealing all of your photos, and storing them, and possibly “owning … Continued
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Be a Game-Changer or You’ll End Up on the Sidelines: Why Law Firms Should Invest More in eDiscovery Technology New Cases Spotlight Production Pitfalls in eDiscovery with Slack Interview: Paul Mankoo of Inventus on truly international discovery Five Items to … Continued
Linked: New study adds to debate over racial bias in algorithms widely used in courtrooms
This seems like it should have been an obvious short-coming, and yet, it also seems like no one thought about it: “Risk assessments are pitched as “race-neutral,” replacing human judgment—subjective, fraught with implicit bias—with objective, scientific criteria. Trouble is, the … Continued
Linked: ‘My job application was withdrawn by someone pretending to be me’
As Bruce Schneier said when linking to this, this is pretty low-tech, but it does highlight a scary misuse of data: “Mr Fearn said the talent assistant told him they were confused because he had apparently emailed them to withdraw … Continued
How to Use Feedly – Because Trusting Social Media to Show You News is a Fool’s Errand
One of the things that I am constantly amazed by, is how many people don’t actively get news or any information. It seems as if social media has not only made us all slightly narcissistic, but it’s also made us … Continued
Linked: Vicarious trauma in the legal profession
I’ve seen various mentions of the mental health impacts of investigators of child abuse, for example, but this article is a nice reminder that it’s not just investigators who are dealing with these kinds of traumatic stories every day: Françoise … Continued