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Never Assume Searches Are Accurate Without Verifying
ByMike McBride January 10, 2025January 9, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Technology, especially M365 technology, changes all the time. It’s vast and complicated, and things get broken when new versions are rolled out. When dealing with eDiscovery, security, privacy, etc., we have to stay on top of those changes to understand new features and ensure the old ones still work the same way.

Don’t assume the old ones will always work the same way. I can tell you from this and plenty of other experiences they often don’t.

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Career

Linked – The growing CEO pay gap is killing workplace culture
ByMike McBride January 7, 2025January 7, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Workers aren’t ignorant about what their companies do and how their work contributes to the company; they don’t care. Nor should they. Not when the company’s profits can reach astronomical new highs and workers are lucky to get a raise that matches the cost of living increase for that year. Not when we can work our asses off to be successful remotely and continue to make the company all that profit only to be told that we have to come back to the office every day at our own expense. Not when 10% of them got laid off to ensure that the shareholders and CEO’s got theirs.

People aren’t detached from the company because it hasn’t explained what they do correctly. They simply don’t give a flying fuck about a company that hasn’t given a flying fuck about them their entire careers.

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Training

Linked – 15 Times to use AI, and 5 Not to
ByMike McBride January 2, 2025January 16, 2025 Reading Time: 2 minutes

I’ve seen many people in the L&D space talk about using AI for training, and I think there is a place for it. There is also a place for deep learning that isn’t assisted by an AI tool. For instance, I don’t use AI to write for me. As someone who puts out as much written content as I do, you may find that surprising, but I tried it and quickly realized it wasn’t for me. Why? Because the writing process is part of my learning process. Taking information I see or read and trying to share in a way that makes sense to the reader is an integral part of understanding it better. You could argue that this blog is mainly for me, not the readers because as I try to understand legal technology, I must write about it. I need to turn around and explain it.

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Artificial Intelligence | LawFirms

Linked – Attorney-Client Privilege Has a Problem: AI Isn’t a Lawyer
ByMike McBride December 30, 2024December 27, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

If I ask AI to do legal research or provide legal insights, should I assume that the data would be privileged? As the article points out, why would I believe that if no lawyers were involved?

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Tech

Linked – AI data readiness: C-suite fantasy, big IT problem
ByMike McBride December 27, 2024December 27, 2024 Reading Time: 1 minute

This might seem like a new problem, but it’s an old problem that shows up when trying to do something new.

There is a lack of a strategy for data security and data rot. Too many organizations have punted when deciding what data to keep versus delete and haven’t made the hard decisions about implementing data security internally. Now, they want to use AI, but the AI is accessing all that outdated data and exposing the places where security wasn’t correctly implemented. So, it becomes an IT problem to fix.

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Career

Linked – Companies issuing RTO mandates “lose their best talent”
ByMike McBride December 21, 2024December 21, 2024 Reading Time: 2 minutes

If you don’t have a solid business reason for your policy, the rest of us will question your ability to make any decisions about the company going forward. Employees who have other options will take them when they don’t trust leadership.

Why give them a reason to distrust you?

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