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    What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Google Has a Plan to Disrupt the College Degree?This is pretty interesting, could work, if we can get orgs to see it as “qualified”. Would open a ton of doors.
    Toward a Zoom agreement?”The purpose of a meeting is not to fill the allocated slot on the Google calendar invite. The purpose is to communicate an idea and the emotions that go with it, and to find out what’s missing via engaged conversation. If we can’t do that, let’s not meet.”
    Report: AI Company Leaks Over 2.5M Medical Records
    The Intersection of E-Discovery and Cybersecurity: You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby
    Think You Don’t Need to Preserve Slack Data for Discovery? Think Again
    There is No Such Thing as a Free Lunch in Legal Tech
    Non-Lawyer Ownership Doesn’t Guarantee More A2J?The $$ barrier to entry for someone to even be a lawyer guarantees legal services will always be expensive. #A2J will require systemic changes.
    5 Best Password Managers of 2020
    Surveys Show Technology Is The Key To Law Firm Success During COVID-19 And Beyond
    Minimize The Risk of Data Loss From Departing Employees With These Simple Checklists

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    Linked: A fake, AI-generated blog reached the top of Hacker News

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    I’ve been at this blog for almost 19 years. Are you sure it’s still me writing these posts? Did I disappear and just leave it on autopilot to write posts for me long after I’m gone?

    Are you sure you would know if I did?

    Not everything is as it appears. We could all use a lot more skepticism, especially on topics we are already biased to believe.

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly)

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    The Implications of Working Without an Office

    The Explosion of Organizational Data is at a Tipping Point: Here’s How to Understand What You Have and Mitigate Risk

    This Big Law Firm Has Permanent Plans for Remote Working

    Zooming from video meetings to discovery requests about video meetings

    How To Enable Ransomware Protection Feature on Windows 10

    Coronavirus: The Expert’s Practical Guide to Job Searching During Self Containment

    Discovery from Microsoft Office 365

    Deloitte Takes Aim at U.S. Legal Services Market With Tech Unit

    – Not really a surprise, the Big 4 have been moving significantly into this area, and thanks to COVID layoffs, lots of in-house teams are doing with less, looking for options.

    10 Tips for Job Searching When You Also Have Depression

    Estonia is Building a “Robot Judge” to Help Clear Legal Backlog

    – Interesting, but dangerous if they can’t get the bias out of the #AI

    Beware of the Perils of Allowing Self-Collection

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) July 12, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    Ways companies can measure workers’ mental health

    A Professional Recruiter’s Top 5 Insider Tips for Stress-free Networking and Interviewing

    Law Firms Are Seeing Renewed Competition—from Clients
    – “Corporate legal teams, under the gun to cut costs and empowered by powerfully simple technology, are increasingly in-housing work that was once sent to outside counsel.”

    The pandemic is wrecking the typical 9-to-5 workday. Good riddance.

    Be aware of how anxiety affects your job search skills

    No Excuse Not to Use a Password Manager

    Working Through a Personal Crisis

    The Expanding Role and Influence of the Modern Litigation Support or E-Discovery Manager

    The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly Side Of AI

    Stop Using 123456 as a Password

    Tell Congress to Vote Yes on Giving Us All Access to Affordable, High-Speed Internet
    – If much of the world moves to #WFH, affordable internet will be the dividing line for who can work, and who cannot.

    Gender Pay Gap Wide Atop In-House Counsel Ladder, May Be Closing

    Exif Data: What is it?

  • What I’m Sharing (weekly) – June 28, 2020

    ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

    New Hampshire removes mental health questions from bar application Taking care about time and place data in eDiscovery – things may not be as simple as they seem – Is that GPS location really accurate? Five Tips for Speaking Virtually How employers can help workers’ mental health during COVID-19 Law Firm Reopening Guidance: A Round…