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Linked: Vicarious trauma in the legal profession

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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 Mathieu, a trauma expert with more than 20 years of experience as a mental health…

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Linked – Pennsylvania Superior Court Holds that Social Media Posts Must Be Authenticated Before Being Admissible in Evidence

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This is an interesting ruling. I think they’re on to something too. “In the case of Commonwealth v. Mangel, No. 2018 Pa. Super. 57 (Pa. Super. March 15, 2018 Musmanno, S.J. Ott, J., Shogan, J.)(Op. by Musmanno, J.), the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that social media posts are inadmissible in criminal cases unless prosecutors can…

Reading – New research: women and family business are good for one another | Joe Astrachan | LinkedIn

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This makes sense. I had not ever thought about it before but thinking about hiring a woman versus a man, and whether the woman is up to the challenge, looks a whole lot different when it’s your daughter, sister, etc. Also, I think it underscores the importance of networking. It’s always easiest to hire people…

This Week’s Links (weekly)

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Why Even the Most Cutthroat Lawyer Should Want to Cooperate tags: LitSupport MM Bring Your Own Disaster (Your IT Consultant) tags: Tech Security MM Will Apple Products Come to Rule Your Life? tags: Tech MM EDRM Publishes eDiscovery Maturity Self-Assessment Test tags: LitSupport MM Did Home Depot Invite Data Breach with “We Sell Hammers” Attitude?…

Linked – The Weakness in Two-Factor Authentication—Your Lost-Phone Policy
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Linked – The Weakness in Two-Factor Authentication—Your Lost-Phone Policy

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

This is interesting, though I can’t help but think that the second reason at the end of this paragraph is less a technical problem than someone using your own culture against you. “Hackers always look for the weak link, and they have learned to get around MFA by exploiting gaps in companies’ lost-phone protocols. They…

Linked: Lessons from legal service companies (Part 1)
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Linked: Lessons from legal service companies (Part 1)

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

This series at Trial by Tech may be something you want to keep an eye on over the next couple of upcoming posts. I’m sure I will but I think this first part, identifying why legal consumers are turning to legal service companies can really be boiled down to this: “In another survey posted by…

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