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Linked – Law School Has Failed The Profession
James isn’t pulling any punches in his claim that law schools aren’t teaching basic business skills. “This lack of basic financial literacy has been holding back the management and growth of the legal industry for decades. Many large law firms are only now starting to adopt the financial analytics tools that have long been commonplace…
Shared Links (weekly) March 7, 2021
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Study: Facebook Users Find Fake News More Engaging Than Facts
– The biggest problem has always been us, not the tech companies.
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Forensic Analysis of a Personal Laptop is Intrusive Discovery
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Worried About Malware? eDiscovery Could Be Your Biggest Malware Threat
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Looking Out for Manipulated ‘Deepfake’ Evidence in Family Law Cases
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7 places to find free college courses online, from Harvard to MIT
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How to Better Support a High Performing Workforce and Yourself During the Pandemic
Linked: Women in the Workplace
This is an acute problem for many of us, who want to participate in doing the work of promoting diversity and inclusion but are still getting measured by everything other than that. And, as the survey points out, it is oftentimes women who take on this work, in an effort to help other women and minorities achieve.
But, as much as the C-Level folks talk about the importance of this work, it is not a part of the job performance, nor is time and effort really allocated for it.
How many of you volunteer to take on this work, running an employee resource group, putting together presentations, leading group discussions, often at the behest of top management, and then when it comes times for performance reviews, the only thing that matters is time spent on bringing in revenue?
The message seems to really be, “It’s great that you want to do this work for us, but make sure you do it on your time because your productivity will be measured against the people who don’t spend any time at all doing this work”
Linked: Hackers slip into Microsoft Teams chats to distribute malware
This makes sense. How often do your coworkers send you something in a Teams chat and you simply click on it? Have you considered the possibility that it wasn’t actually your coworker but someone who was able to gain access to their account?
