What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 12, 2020

What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 12, 2020

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Ways companies can measure workers’ mental health

A Professional Recruiter’s Top 5 Insider Tips for Stress-free Networking and Interviewing

Law Firms Are Seeing Renewed Competition—from Clients
– “Corporate legal teams, under the gun to cut costs and empowered by powerfully simple technology, are increasingly in-housing work that was once sent to outside counsel.”

The pandemic is wrecking the typical 9-to-5 workday. Good riddance.

Be aware of how anxiety affects your job search skills

No Excuse Not to Use a Password Manager

Working Through a Personal Crisis

The Expanding Role and Influence of the Modern Litigation Support or E-Discovery Manager

The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Side Of AI

Stop Using 123456 as a Password

Tell Congress to Vote Yes on Giving Us All Access to Affordable, High-Speed Internet
– If much of the world moves to #WFH, affordable internet will be the dividing line for who can work, and who cannot.

Gender Pay Gap Wide Atop In-House Counsel Ladder, May Be Closing

Exif Data: What is it?

Linked: Leaders Need To See More Than The Big Picture, They Need To Catch The Small Cues
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Linked: Leaders Need To See More Than The Big Picture, They Need To Catch The Small Cues

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

From a purely business focus what Ira says about retention should be obvious, but I suspect many people don’t get it, despite the fact that it wasn’t that long ago when the economy was doing well, and the job market was ripe for the picking as a seeker. That’s changed, but it will change again….

Linked: 3 eDiscovery Lessons From COVID-19 Shutdown
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Linked: 3 eDiscovery Lessons From COVID-19 Shutdown

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 2 minutes

The first line of the first lesson is one I totally agree with: “It’s said that major events don’t so much change our culture as they simply reveal what was already there.” I feel like Jeff should have reminded himself of that first line when writing the rest of it, because yes, it’s true that…

Linked: A New Skill a Day Keeps the Stress Away
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Linked: A New Skill a Day Keeps the Stress Away

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

I found this opening paragraph pretty interesting in and of itself. With the current uncertainty in our daily lives, many people are more stressed than ever. Conventional wisdom says to eat well, exercise, and relax to reduce stress. While that’s all great advice, studies show that learning may relieve stress better than relaxing.  In recent…

Shut Up and Encrypt

Shut Up and Encrypt

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

While watching the Alex Winter film about the Panama Papers, this quote stood out to me given all of the talk about the “dangers” of encryption.
While working with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in the early days of investigating the data leaked from Mossack Fonseca law firm, the importance of not letting anyone know that the data had leaked, or that it was all being investigated, they lived with this slogan:

“Shut Up and Encrypt”

What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 5, 2020

What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 5, 2020

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Innovation Tips and Priorities for Mid-sized Law Firms UNPREPARED FOR THE DEEPFAKE? Beware “secure DNS” scam targeting website owners and bloggers How E-Discovery Software Is Helping Battle COVID-19 Let Yourself Be Unproductive. At Least for a Little While. Detroit police chief cops to 96-percent facial recognition error rate Microsoft Releases Undelete Tool – Backups are…