Vol. 20, No. 188
If you work with litigations in the European Union, then you should know a bit about Schrems II. “The notable Schrems II battle came to a conclusion in July and dealt a significant blow to corporate collection of EU citizens’ data when the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) deemed the Privacy Shield an inadequate measure for protecting EU citizens’ data from disproportional access from U.S. law enforcement.” Read more at Legaltech news: Judge Panel: ‘Schrems II’ Could Impact US Discovery Matters, Upcoming Brexit
You’ll get no argument from me. Corporate security and compliance needs, while similar in some ways to that of a private law firm, are different enough that they do need there own systems. But I want to twist this a bit and say that in order to ensure those needs are met, corporations need to band together. Group advocacy will be the thing that will best bring about a new generation of corporate-specific compliance and security tools. Meet with your peers through ILTA or ACC. AT one point I might also suggested CLOC, but they seem to have retreated from the security space. Read more at Legaltech news: 
As I was reading about Portwell’s motherboard with twenty, yes 20, USB ports, I was thinking wow, that’s insane. Then I counted up the number of USB devices I have attached to my home computer. Ok, so maybe it’s not so insane. Then the post about an old style, CRT (cathode ray tube) TV killing internet connectivity for everyone in the village of Aberhosan, Wales made me think back to my consulting days and a client’s issue with computer rebooting being traced to the elevator hitting the top floor. Think of the cost of those techs, of replacing those copper cables, when the real solution would have been a $100 flat screen TV. Another gem, I almost missed, is in the comments. “You can tell this is not a US story because the ISP is frustrated that their customers are getting poor service.” Ha! Read more at ars technica:
As I read Mark Cohen’s piece this morning on COVID-19’s transformation of law, I am vacillating between “blah blah law change blah blah,” and “maybe this is the actual tipping point?” Changes in the client landscape, accelerated client transformation, blah blah blah. I’m not sure there is anything on this list that hasn’t been said in one way or another for the last twenty years. And for the past twenty years law, as an industry, as pretty much remained unchanged. Heck, we can’t even get rid of the billable hour. I’m sure the questions Mark proposes have been asked numerous times over the past two decades. “This Is Just The Beginning Of Law’s Transformation.” There have been so many events in the past that claim to be the tipping point for major change in law. It’s been more wishful thinking than actual change. I agree that COVID is forcing the hand of many businesses in forcing greater digital transformation. But will it be able to peirce the bubble that surrounds law and actually be the tipping point? I agree COVID Is making us do some things differently: work from home and online courts are two big examples. But will that be the stuff that transforms the legal function and creates the new models that “will drive education/training, delivery, and dispute resolution?” To suggest that Utah and Arizona regulatory reforms are caused by COVID-related change would require the Bars to work at a speed that boggles the mind. I remain wishful, but not convinced, that COVID-19 is the tipping point. Which team are you on: Team Blah Blah or Team Tipping Point? Read more at Legal Mosaic: 
Doug Austin talks about search terms, TAR, and judges vs experts deciding on parties’ search term disputes. I would argue that the ultimate conclusions from this post are that one size does not fit all and when in doubt, go to the experts. Read more at eDiscovery Today: 
This post really resonated with me in two major ways: my work life and my association life. Shane Parrish writes, “Our desire to fit in with others means we don’t always say what we think. We only express opinions that seem safe.” One of my great manager moments has always been when I can get someone new to take a stance opposite mine or disagree with me. It indeed means that they do feel comfortable and secure in their role. The second has been when a small faction inside an organization rise to power and create an environment where free opinions cannot be expressed. The first you want to achieve and the second you want to prevent or break when you find it. Find out how the spiral of silence works and how to discover what people really think by reading more at Farnam Street: 
The list starts off with my favorite, DuckDuckGo, and ends with Firefox Focus. It includes Startpage, which doesn’t use its own index, but rather “allows users to obtain Google Search results while protecting their data.” That can be a major plus, because often the other privacy indexes are not as complete as the major players. To see more privacy browsers, read more at BLEEPINGCOMPUTER: 
The collection of five authors (Sarun Charumilind, Matt Craven, Jessica Lamb, Adam Sabow, and Matt Wilson) attempt to answer the question we all want answered. They first break it down into two parts, the epidemiological end point and the end of the social and economic upheaval we live. They write, “The two ends are related, of course, but not linearly. At the latest, the transition to normal will come when herd immunity is reached. But in regions with strong public-health responses, normalcy can likely come significantly before the epidemiological end of the pandemic.” Make some time to read more at McKinsey and Company Blog: 
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