These numbers are startling – A Johns Hopkins University study of more than 100 professions revealed that lawyers are 3.6 times as likely to be depressed as people with other jobs, while the landmark 2016 American Bar Association (ABA) and Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation study determined that 28% of licensed, employed lawyers suffer depression. The…
This isn’t really surprising. “22% of respondents said their firms had experienced a data breach at some point, up from 14 percent last year – that’s a big escalation. Significantly, respondents at firms with 500 or more attorneys took the bulk of those hits.” Law firms in general, and large ones specifically, are target rich…
This Freakonomics interview with the founder of the Virgin group was interesting for a lot of reasons, but this exchange I found very telling: BRANSON: Well I mean, I think, I find that some American companies are anything but good at motivating people. And I find that hard to understand, because if you’ve got a…
There really are so many choices. Perhaps some of the advice in this article, not to mention the conferences they talk about, will help you. As for me, I’m currently planning on being back at ILTACON in August. Haven’t been there in a couple of years, so I’m looking forward to it. But I know…
I like this article, but especially this bit of advice: What about your tendency to fill every pause with “Um”? This is telling you to get more familiar with your material. If you know what you’re going to say, you won’t have to pause to remember. The “um” has always had two meanings to me….
This is not as easy as he makes it sound: And then lastly is learning from all these three elements – the user, the device, the least privilege, and adapting your policies. So it’s a constant learning and adapting, changing the policies. For instance, if Jane never executes certain commands on a Unix machine, let’s…