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Why women need male allies in the workplace – and why fighting everyday sexism enriches men too
Linked – Law School Has Failed The Profession
James isn’t pulling any punches in his claim that law schools aren’t teaching basic business skills. “This lack of basic financial literacy has been holding back the management and growth of the legal industry for decades. Many large law firms are only now starting to adopt the financial analytics tools that have long been commonplace…
Career | LawFirms | Links | LitigationSupportLinked: Is Your Job Hazardous To Your Mental Health? Grade How Your Workplace Stacks Up On Mental Wellness
Are you prepared to have over half of your employees leave? “A survey by Mental Health America polled the attitudes of 17,000 employees across 19 U.S. industries. They found that 70% of the current workforce is searching for other jobs, and roughly 50% are checked out. Among the reasons are excessive overtime hours, a workplace…
Linked – Why Your FOIA Request Might Not Get Text Messages
This is mostly because it’s too difficult and/or expensive to retain SMS messages, but I have another takeaway. “In other words, only 22 percent of FOIA requestors got everything they asked for. 22 percent!” The demand for the Federal government to move this percentage higher is going to result in a lot more scrutiny of…
It’s not like TV
One of the stories I like to tell people about working in Litigation Support is the conversation I had with someone shortly after I made the transition. Upon hearing my description of the job, and my reference to handling electronic evidence, I was asked if it was like when they do the computer forensics stuff…
Could Facebook Be Creating a Facial Recognition Tool to be Used by the Government
NPR has a story this morning talking about Facebook’s facial recognition tools and the potential risk to our privacy that comes along with it. One of the things I like about this story is the explanation of modeling, and how without a model, facial scanning doesn’t really work. It’s comparable to the conversations I’ve had…
