Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 10, 2023

Shared Links (weekly) Sept. 10, 2023

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

Microsoft Teams Collaborative Meeting Notes
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Microsoft Teams Collaborative Meeting Notes

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 5 minutes

Recently, Microsoft released a preview feature, making meeting notes collaborative using MS Loop. As part of the M365 newsletter subscription I offered a deep dive into the eDiscovery implications of the tool and how it works, but there was more I wanted to say about the functionality of it outside of that. Hence, I’m writing a blog post about how I looked at these notes as a trainer and leader as opposed to how I looked at them as an eDiscovery professional.

Linked – Female Expats on Why They Left Paul Weiss, Hogan, Paul Hastings

Linked – Female Expats on Why They Left Paul Weiss, Hogan, Paul Hastings

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 3 minutes

The question I’ve always had though, is what exactly changed and when did it change? Because I can’t believe most women go to law school and graduate planning on working at a large law firm for a few years and then leaving to go solo, in-house, public sector, or teaching at law school, despite the fact that it happens a lot! Again, in my anecdotal experience, it happens much more often than it does for male associates.

If we have a system that “works” for male lawyers this much more often than female or gender non-binary lawyers, maybe it’s not a good system.

If you’re a female attorney who’s left a law firm and wants to share your experience and reasons, I’d love to hear about it and possibly write about it. (You can reach out to me privately if you’d like to remain anonymous.) I am truly curious about what it’s like to graduate law school versus the reality of law firm life a few years later, and what law firms could have done to keep you.

Linked – How to repair a trust problem

Linked – How to repair a trust problem

ByMike McBride Reading Time: 1 minute

She mentions a round of layoffs as an example of breaking trust, and I’m glad she included that. All too often, when a round of layoffs occurs, senior management will return to talking about the culture or set of core values they expect all employees to follow without ever acknowledging that it’s different now. You can’t just return to talking about the importance of teamwork and diversity when you just canned 10% of the team as if nothing happened.