I’ve seen this mentioned before, and it really does make sense. Stay put, and you’ll get whatever the company budgeted for a raise. Leave, and potentially another company has a whole different level of budget for the position. “Americans switching jobs are getting bigger raises than employees staying put, with companies in technology and construction…
I’ve seen this tendency as well, though I have not yet seen anyone bring in their “good with computers” kid to run trial presentation. Still, I think what he talks about at the link is something attorneys need to take a moment and think about: “Today, I talk about what I still consider to be…
There is clearly a mental health issue in the legal industry, but who is really to blame? That’s not so clear and clients aren’t taking the blame laying down – “The response follows the most recent piece in Law.com’s “Minds Over Matters” yearlong series: an article titled “Constantly on Call” that states that “client demands…
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This seems like it should have been an obvious short-coming, and yet, it also seems like no one thought about it: “Risk assessments are pitched as “race-neutral,” replacing human judgment—subjective, fraught with implicit bias—with objective, scientific criteria. Trouble is, the most accurate tools draw from existing criminal justice data: what happened to large numbers of…
As Bruce Schneier said when linking to this, this is pretty low-tech, but it does highlight a scary misuse of data: “Mr Fearn said the talent assistant told him they were confused because he had apparently emailed them to withdraw his application on Wednesday. “They forwarded the email, which was sent from an account using…