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HSR Second Requests demand speed and precision. Learn how modern AI and cloud-native ediscovery compress timelines, simplify 2024 FTC rule compliance, and empower legal teams to negotiate scope with real-time data to protect high-value merger deals.

Polished AI output is cheap to send, expensive to receive, and quietly costing senders the trust they did not realize they were spending.

Share: 0 More Your resume has about six seconds to make an impression. That’s not a metaphor; it’s the average time a recruiter spends during a first scan of a resume before deciding whether to keep reading or move on. You have just six seconds to communicate what you offer and why you’re the right […]

When I first published The Annotated ESI Protocol in January 2023, I hoped it would age the way most legal writing ages: slowly, with a few footnotes for the curious. Three years on, I’m rele…

Regular readers of The Job Hopper know that we’re really into kindness around here.

Most College Students Wait Too Long to Network. Don’t Make This Mistake.

and Why to Stop Attaching Moral Value to Your Employment Status

It was only three years ago when I was laid off

The link between financial stress, mental health and suicide risk is well evidenced. Yet most employees won't tell you they are struggling. Jane Vivier, Independent reward professional and FinWELL advocate, and Alice Hendy MBE highlight what the data shows and what needs to urgently change.

Three seconds of audio is all it takes to clone a voice for fraud. Adaptive Security shows how deepfake calls trick employees into sending real money—and why most defenses don't catch them.

Sleep is employees' #1 mental health challenge, but HR leaders often miss this critical signal. Learn how to improve employee sleep health and protect sleep and workplace safety.

Disclaimer: This post talks about Bluesky and an offering from Bluesky and I am on the Bluesky board. Take everything I say with whatever size grains of salt you feel is appropriate. I’ve wri…

The billable hour's information problem in eDiscovery: why the profession's pricing convention behaves less like a price and more like a central-planning instrument.

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Q&A with Elizabeth Weingarten, author of How to Fall in Love with Questions: A New Way to Thrive in Times of Uncertainty.

Researchers have conducted another study about AI and its effects on the human brain. The results were grim.

We at Kean Miller continuously optimize our legal approach to help transform business complexities into new opportunities.

In early March, 438 security and privacy researchers from 32 countries signed a massive open letter warning that age verification mandates for the internet are technically impossible to get right, …

The economics of the AI business are basically the economics of data centres. That’s a tough business model to make money from.

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Change, Uncertainty and Resilience

Asking for a demotion requires as much thought and planning as a promotion, and it might just be your best next step.

By the time L&D arrives at most companies, the cultural patterns are already set. The job isn't building a culture. It's diagnosing what you inherited.

From the bad-defendants-make-bad-law dept

Legal departments adopted AI to handle routine work more efficiently. Contract review, due diligence, research memoranda, intake summaries.

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Employees are more comfortable discussing race, sexuality, and physical health than they are about discussing mental health, even as burnout and overwhelm continue to rise.

Will that ever be enough revenue to offset the massive investments they've made in AI? Time will tell. Right now, these are some early warning signs, but also small enough that I can't imagine they'll move the needle one way or the other. I'm not jumping to any conclusions based on them, but I do have my eyes open.

As AI overwhelms the web, we will need a way to distinguish people from machines.

When Google sunset Universal Analytics, the data went with it. A recent Rule 37(e) decision shows what happens when an IT employee tried to preserve litigation data without direction from counsel — and why the consequences went far beyond a sanctions motion. By Kelly Twigger Podcast | Transcript This week’s Case of the Week examines