Mike McBride on Tech, eDiscovery and Mental Health - Issue #30
eDiscovery and Legal Tech
2 Reasons eDiscovery Will Change Forever in 2022 Gain insight on the reasons that will changeDiscovery forever in 2022.
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Legalweek 2022 Observations from Attendees — ediscoverytoday.com How about hearing from other people for a change? Here are Legalweek 2022 observations from several attendees, in their own words.
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.
Security and Privacy
How Tracking Someone’s Movements Can Make Them Look Guilty, Even When They’re Not | Techdirt — www.techdirt.com Last month, the NY Times published a really great article by (the always innovative) tech reporter Kashmir Hill, in which she tested out a bunch of those location tracking tools by hiding them (with permission) on her husband, Trevor Timm, executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation. It was a great and eye-opening…
Linked: Ransomware victims thought their backups were safe. They were wrong The backup has to be offline, disconnected from the computer that gets infected. "Keeping a backup copy of vital data is a good way of reducing the damage
Managed service providers more often the targets of cyberattacks versus their customers | SC Media — www.scmagazine.com A new report found that managed service providers often find themselves the target for cyberattacks rather than the organizations they were hired to protect.
Workplace
Why Training Matters for Diversity — www.mikemcbrideonline.com Wouldn't it be a better choice to locate candidates with some of the skills you're going to need in a position and know that you have an environment that will help them grow and learn to become exactly what you need to be? Wouldn't that practice become a way to attract really smart people who want to grow and learn by coming to work for you? Doesn't that sound like a better option than simply leaving your open jobs unfilled and lamenting the fact that no one wants to work anymore? Unfortunately, there are too many organizations that simply won't consider this. They aren't interested in growing the people who work for them, they only want to hire people who can come in with no effort on the organization's part and do the work starting on day one. I think they are short-sighted.
Why Training Matters for Retention — www.mikemcbrideonline.com This brings me to that final point. Having a learning culture requires a plan for each employee and for different types of jobs. It requires coordination between the official training department, managers, HR, and the subject matter experts throughout the organization. It may look a bit messy. It may include some mix of internal training, external resources, job shadowing, self-study, and group learning. I'd argue that a true culture that promotes and encourages learning would leave open all of those possibilities. I'd also argue that your training staff isn't just there to teach classes but to provide and coordinate all of those options. They are there to "provide opportunities to learn and grow", whatever those look like for all of your employees who wish to do so. They are key to retention but they cannot do it alone. The culture must reward and encourage learning and growth in meaningful ways or all the training staff in the world won't make a difference.
How to Stay Connected With Your Team When Working Remotely — www.makeuseof.com Working from home and feeling disconnected from your team? Here are some tips to stay connected!
Linked: Women in cybersecurity need more than inspiration — www.mikemcbrideonline.com What Sherri talks about in regards to the security industry is something I'm seeing over and over again when reading about diversity. The child care question. Let me share another resource on the topic with you. In December, there was an episode of People I Mostly Admire with Claudia Goldin, where she talked about the concept of "Greedy work". The topic she was chatting about was the gender pay gap and how much child care contributes to it, and one of the reasons we have a gender pay cap, aside from the percentage that is actually discrimination, is that greedy work doesn't account for child care, but it pays more. So in many families, they have to make a choice between less pay and the flexibility to equally share the child care. The economics of that don't usually make sense, so one parent takes on the greedy work to maximize the family income while the other steps back to a more flexible role in order to provide the majority of child care. With social norms being what they are, and the other issues that contribute to a gender pay gap, that most often means the man in a heterosexual couple, and here we are with women being vastly underrepresented in these types of positions.
Why 'Stay Interviews' Might Help Law Firms And Companies Retain Legal Talent - Above the LawAbove the Law — abovethelaw.com Exit interviews often reveal to law firms and legal departments at companies why lawyers are leaving, thus making them them a day late and a dollar short.
Mental Health
Employers need to reach out to workers struggling with mental health issues — nypost.com Every company has one of those bubbly, “can-do” workers, full of vision and enthusiasm. Through most of his career, Chris Piedmont embodied this to a T — that is, until the spring of 2020.
Linked: How managers can best help employees with mental health issues — www.mikemcbrideonline.com I found this tidbit pretty interesting, we often hear that our employers have an Employee Assistance Program, but how often do you hear from someone who