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Linked: Brain Research Confirms Stupidity Of Back-to-Back Meetings
The research just proves that we already know from first-hand experience, right? We’ve all been in back-to-back meetings, leaving one Microsoft Teams or Zoom call just to click the link to another, and it’s obvious which team members have done that and aren’t mentally prepared for the current meeting.
We all know it. We all schedule our meeting to end at 25 or 55 past the hour so that we don’t make people do that, and then we still run to the top or bottom of the hour anyway. Sometimes even over.
Proving, once again, that we suck at meetings. And yes, I include myself in that.
Planning for Later in eDiscovery
During a recent ILTA webinar on coordination between outside counsel and a legal department on eDiscovery, I noted that a couple of the final points that were discussed were things that I think frequently get overlooked in the beginning of an ediscovery project. Phyllis Strader and Caroline Sweeney talked a lot about choosing whether to…
Linked – “Save Everything” and Eventually You Will Not Be Able to Find Anything: The Sedona Conference Principles and Commentary on Defensible Disposition
I mean, when even Ralph Losey and his love of AI and machine learning is saying don’t save everything, we need to learn how to not save everything. “I am pro-search and think that the importance of management of ESI by filing and disposition is somewhat overblown. I think search is king, not data deletion….
More Lobbyists and Politicians Who Don’t Understand the Internet Want to Regulate It
I’ve written before about politicians who don’t understand technology are passing laws about it constantly, and why it might be a bad idea. This week, Mike Masnick at TechDirt did a pretty good job of explaining why the news industry trade group spokesmen who wants the US to pass something similar to what the EU…
Linked – “Troubling” Activity with No Proof of Spoliation Insufficient to Warrant Sanctions
As a non-lawyer myself, I’m thinking this would be a pretty difficult thing to prove. The bar being set this high makes some sense to me, but it does leave quite a lot of wiggle room for people who don’t want to handle eDiscovery properly. Any actual lawyers want to weigh in on that? Taking…
