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I have been in my role for over two years now and I am still adapting my learned behaviors to my organization. This is particularly true where it comes to decision-making. In part, that’s because I
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The Deflated Legal Publisher
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My lawyering skills class turned in their first predictive memos and so we spent some time turning our attention to research. I have been mixing AI research in as we go and I finally turned to
AI Remains a Strategic Distraction
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I was running through the syllabus highlights recently as we started a new semester of lawyering skills. It’s primarily a writing and research class, with professionalism and practice technology incorporated when possible. As we touched on
Eat Your Sprouts
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I’ve been experiencing a lot of negative friction recently with technology. Fundamentally, it comes down to the fact that our organization does not standardize. The failure to pick a product and commit resources to it means
Customizing the OBS Studio Start Up Image
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I am a long time user of OBS Studio. It’s a video and audio management tool that works great for virtual meetings and video interviews. It intercepts your camera and audio inputs and allows you to
Improve Lawyer Communications with Improv
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The law school’s senior staff meet monthly and we occasionally convert the meeting into a group training. Things as common as managing personality types or corporate finance nuances. Perhaps the most unusual at my current workplace
Adding the DNS Sinkhole
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I finally turned my attention to a project that had been tickling the back of my task list since we moved into this house. It was our first house with appliances, other than a TV, that
An Insensitive Document
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I taught legal research and writing last year and had created some mock documents for the final assignment, an open memorandum. The topic was police interrogations and so I created a fake police report, using a
An End to All Things
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When we use computers, it often feels like we never come to the end of something. Occasionally an app will be closed down—RIP Google Reader and Microsoft Bob—but we get used to versioning. A
Transparency, To Be Clear
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There was a lot of good information sharing at the AALL annual conference in Cleveland. I feel pretty seasoned as a manager and leader but I always drop in on some of the sessions focused on