Linked – Workers use unapproved messaging apps to get their work done
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Linked – Workers use unapproved messaging apps to get their work done

This is one of those statistics that should jump off the page and worry the heck out of people in HR, and especially the eDiscovery industry. “The study found that almost two-thirds (64 percent) of the respondents use their mobile devices for work-related communications — even though 32 percent of the respondents said they are…

Linked – More Tech, More Problems: The Downsides to Millennial Attorneys Working Remotely
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Linked – More Tech, More Problems: The Downsides to Millennial Attorneys Working Remotely

There’s something profoundly sad in the fact that working remotely became popular as a way to provide flexibility, and allow individuals the freedom to carve out their own sense of work-life balance, but has proven to do the opposite because we haven’t figured out how to do that. “I think there’s an awareness that is…

Planning for Later in eDiscovery
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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 – Charity tackling child abuse warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of internet regulation

Linked – Charity tackling child abuse warns of ‘unintended consequences’ of internet regulation

My gut tells me that the charity is right to be concerned. Any time we find ourselves in this much agreement that “something” must be done in the US, we usually end up doing something that doesn’t spend a lot of time considering the unintended consequences, and with a scheme to regulate the internet being…