Law firms across the country have invested in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts for decades. Impactful work has been done, and National Association of Law Placement (NALP) data demonstrates twenty years of gradual progress.[1] Such progress has been
The business case for diversity, equity, and inclusion has been well-established for years now. For example, McKinsey reports in 2015, 2018, 2020, and 2023 document how companies with gender and racial/ethnic diversity in their executive leadership consistently and dramatically outperform
If I’ll be asking other lawyers about their experiences with Belonging in their law firms, I’d best start with a definition of Belonging. My predicament is that, as already mentioned, I’ve never had to closely examine what Belonging actually
I’ll be having morning coffee with other lawyers in Kansas City, Missouri, where I’ve practiced law since 1985, at both large and small firms. I’m a 63 year-old White guy, straight, cis, and reasonably abled. The lawyers with whom I’ll
In my legal work for clients, I’m not content with using AI-generated content.
As we watch the tsunami of state comprehensive consumer privacy laws now spreading from California across the U.S., it’s time to revisit the flood zone of state-level PII breach notification statutes, which also flowed forth from California back in 2002.
In the real world, what to do has never been as impactful as why to do it. For the 2020s, the newest impetus for managing information retention and disposal is crystal clear – data privacy and security compliance
We’re witnessing a “rapid, unscheduled disassembly” (thanks SpaceX) of comprehensive consumer privacy laws across the United States. While these new state laws generally have a different, sleeker structure than California’s CCPA/CPRA, they share a similar impact – each such law
Last month California finalized its updated regulations under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). With the CPRA, California has upped the ante on requiring data retention schedules and disposal of unnecessary
Illinois court rules that failure to establish a biometric data retention schedule is an actionable BIPA violation. What may this mean for other states’ privacy laws that require data minimization and storage limitation policies?