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eDiscovery Day is Coming
We sent a version of this to our attorneys at work too. 😉 Thanksgiving has passed, and while we know there are plenty of other holidays to look forward to in December, we don’t want you to overlook a very important day right at the start of the month. Dec. 1st is eDiscovery Day! …
The simple things that improve employee mental health
Employees want to know they are being treated fairly and are trusted to find the best way to accomplish the required work. That doesn’t seem so difficult. Both of these things reduce the risk of burnout, a phenomenon that is becoming a workplace hazard everywhere. You would think they were asking for the impossible from the way some companies act, though.
Can a Virtual Conference Add Enough Value to Charge Attendees?
In the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen two of the bigger conferences in the legal tech and eDiscovery fields announce that they will be totally online this year. Relativity Fest will be 100% virtual, and free to attend. Meanwhile ILTA’s annual conference will likewise be online, but cost members $350 for the week, or…
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Linked – What You Need to Know About the Misinformation Effect
Because if you read enough misinformation, you can’t help but be influenced by it. The people who put out all this false information know it, too.
The only way to combat it is to ignore it. We must leave spaces where it occurs, cut ourselves off from people and sites promoting it, and never share anything we haven’t vetted with trustworthy fact-checkers. We need zero tolerance for ourselves when it comes to false information online.
Linked: Cybersecurity Trends | 25% of Law Firms Have Been Breached
Law firms are an attractive target because of the data, but also because it might be easier to breach a firm than it would be to hack the clients they represent. As the rest of the article goes on to describe, there are still too many firms without cybersecurity training, proper policies, or incident response plans. That is not going to keep things secure.
On top of that, as I’ve written before, the whole culture in firms is a problem. Anytime you have a large group of people in charge, (partners), who are often not to be questioned, social engineering gets a whole lot easier, and the likelihood that even some policy that exists might get ignored is pretty high.
