Weekly Links

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 28, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    After Turbulent Year, Bar Associations Urge Lawyers To Focus on Mental Health

    Missteps, Misdeeds, and Misrepresentations: Judge Johnston’s Treatise on e-Discovery Sanctions

    Migrating Data Through Workflows is What eDiscovery is All About: eDiscovery Best Practices

    During Black History Month, Understand Workplace Concerns of Black Employees

    Is it Zoom Fatigue or Just Bad Meetings?

    I’m gonna go with bad meetings, or at least too many meetings that could have been quick calls or emails.

    Microsoft has a new password security tool you need to check out

    Five Great Reads on eDiscovery for February 2021

    What I Learned When I Was Burned Out

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 21, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    UniCourt Influencer Q&A with Amanda Brown of Lagniappe Law Lab

    More bosses are using software to monitor remote workers. Not everyone is happy about it

    Corporate E-Discovery Insourcing Runs Straight Into Talent, and Culture, Walls

    Filter Out Annoying Facebook Posts With These Tools

    – Learn some tools to take control over your own newsfeed.

    3 Insights Following the Water Facility Attack

    A Case Against the Peeping Tom Theory of Privacy

    Legal Tech Innovation: The Future is Bright

    Redundancy: Surviving the mental health impact of losing your job

    Redaction – good news from Relativity but less good for some others

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 14, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    How Changes to E-discovery Can Help You in Practice

    Building a culture of learning at work

    Why Laura Prael’s business LEP Digital will always run four days a week

    – Interesting thoughts on the benefits of working fewer hours.

    Court Enforces Strict Sanctions for Failing to Be Competent in ESI Obligations

    Working Moms Are Struggling. Here’s What Would Help.

    It’s Safer Internet Day—Here Are 4 Services to Keep You Safer Online

    How Section 230 Makes My Life Better (A Celebration of Its 25 Year Anniversary)

    Four ways to boost mental health conversations at work

    6 Tips for Professionals with High-Functioning Anxiety

    10 Top Technology Tools for the Small Firm Lawyer

    Employees should design their own work time, P&G HR Director says

  • Shared Links (weekly) Feb. 7 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    For U.S. businesses, less data is more than ever

    The Future Of Mental Health And Career Support For Remote Workers

    No, Getting Rid Of Anonymity Will Not Fix Social Media; It Will Cause More Problems

    I cannot stress this enough, getting rid of anonymity does nothing to stop harassing (look at Facebook?), and only hurts already marginalized people.

    eDiscovery Tug of War: A Breakdown of the In-House vs. ALSP Debate, Part Two

    Defensible Deletion: The Proof Is in the Planning

    Microsoft launches Microsoft 365 for Legal

    How to ensure mental wellbeing policies genuinely work for employees

    The ethical quandary of being a social media manager in 2021

    Strong stuff from Tim Cook

    “What are the consequences of seeing thousands of users joining extremist groups and then perpetuating an algorithm that recommends even more?”

    New ESI Sanctions Order Offers E-Discovery 101 Course for Lawyers

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 31 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Breaking the Taboo – What I Learned from Talking about Mental Health in the Workplace

    Why mental health at the workplace should be the priority in 2021 and beyond

    The Admissibility of Social Media Evidence of Insurrection

    The Easy Way to Backup Gmail

    Dozens Of Human Rights Group Tell Congress: Do Not Gut Section 230 On Our Behalf; It’ll Do More Harm Than Good

    The curious case of pivot table caches in eDiscovery

    What’s Wrong with the Way We Work

    Ten Things Law Firms Can Do to Prevent Being Blown Up by Ransomware

    Five Great Reads on eDiscovery for January 2021

    Why the five-day workweek is outdated for working from home

    Building a Network: 4 Ways to Add Value By Helping Others Succeed

    How to Support an Employee with a Chronic Health Condition

  • Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 24, 2021

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Lockdown your Microsoft Teams Guest Access Configuration before February 2021

    eDiscovery Tug of War: A Breakdown of the In-House vs. ALSP Debate

    Here’s a Benchmark Exercise of Keyword Searching to Set Up Privilege Review

    Steganography: Because Who Doesn’t Love Bacon?

    The Best Way to Switch Tasks to Avoid Burnout

    3 Questions Leaders Should Be Asking Their Remote Employees

    How Employee Training Impacts Personal Wellness in the Enterprise

    Why we need Section 230 more than ever

    Former Sidley Partner Opens Up About Depression And Washing Out Of Biglaw