Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #27
Legal and eDiscovery
Thinking About Employees’ Lives and Ambitions Outside of Work Can Improve Law Firm Culture — www.linkedin.com It wasn’t long ago that I was an employee instead of a law firm owner. In fact, it was the numerous experiences throughout my life as a law firm associate that put a firecracker under me to start my own firm specializing in divorce and family law and estate planning.
Rampiva Releases Baseline - New Free Tool To Measure Workloads in Nuix — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This post is a little specific to Nuix users, which I know is not something I've been posting for a while now, but I had the opportunity to talk to Bill Potter from Rampiva about a week ahead of the release of their new tool and wanted to share some of that conversation with you. You can read about Baseline here. In essence, the idea is to solve an interesting problem that has existed with Nuix Workstation users for years, finding an elegant tool that lets you know just how much work your people and your technology are doing.
Speaking Technical in eDiscovery: Understanding How It Differs from Digital Forensics - Cobra Legal Solutions — cobralegalsolutions.com In our last post, we discussed coming to “terms” with Speaking Technical in eDiscovery by learning the meaning of some very important terms. Another important aspect of speaking technical is understanding the difference between eDiscovery and digital forensics, and specific use cases for digital forensics. Differences Between eDiscovery and Digital Forensics There are a handful […]
Security
A Former Hacker’s Guide to Boosting Your Online Security — ProPublica — www.propublica.org More stolen personal data is available online than ever before. A man who once ran a website that prosecutors called the Amazon of stolen identity information offers his tips on the best ways to protect your data.
Mobile Tech Developments Require Security — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Last week I had the opportunity to attend TEDx OregonStateU here in Corvallis and I had a few ideas from those talks for blog posts. One of them was
Linked: Top Password List of 2021 Proves You Need a Password Manager — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I mean, you really should use one for the obvious reason listed here, it lets you create a ton of different passwords, and make them complicated enough that they are hard to crack, since you no longer have to remember them, but they also make it easy for you to help someone gain access to important information and accounts when you are unable to. Because believe me, it happens.
Mental Health
Sharing - America's Lack of Bereavement Leave Is Causing a Grief Crisis — www.childabusesurvivor.net So people who are grieving do it privately. They barely function through the workday and then go home and grieve by themselves. They are left to process grief without any community and the support that provides. They are left to feel like there is something wrong with them because they still miss their loved ones as if that is somehow not normal. It is normal, we don't simply forget the people we lose or the tragedies we experience and then move on. It sticks with you. You feel it again on birthdays and holidays, in places where you are reminded of them when you want to pick up the phone and tell them some exciting news. That doesn't just go away after a set amount of time. We should stop pretending that it should and start making sure everyone has some space to grieve, no matter how long it's been.
Workers split over what kinds of flexibility help work-related stress | HR Dive — www.hrdive.com Human Resources and Workforce Management News
Linked - Work burnout rises despite company investments in mental health — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Yeah, remember all that took about being flexible for single parents, the diversity and inclusion projects we talked about kicking off, the efforts we were going to make on remote work to help us be more inclusive? Turns out that required some hard work we weren't really interested in doing. They see this, they know it, and they are going to look for a place that is better. They no longer trust you. Who will you be left with when everyone who wants better leaves for it?
Linked: Here’s the One Step Some Companies Are Taking to Support Better Mental Health — www.mikemcbrideonline.com One way that I can see this being helpful that wouldn't require much effort at all is to have a group of people who have been in touch with your EAP and navigated the maze that it can be, available to talk with other employees and assist them with that process. That can be the simplest, and yet most effective, way to start peer-to-peer support. There is much more that can be offered but if you're struggling to know where to start, that can be one option. However, to even get there we need to stop the secrecy, shame, and stigma surrounding mental health.