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Lawyers’ Use of AI Notetakers and Client Conversations: Ethics Rules, Risks, and Best Practices (2026 Update)

This post has been updated as of July 2026 to incorporate guidance from NYC Opinion 1270 on ethical issues related to attorneys using AI transcription as

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Worth Reading - AI has made work almost endless, but it doesn't have to be this way

e aren't disciplined enough to stop ourselves, especially when the culture rewards those who don't. In my opinion, that's what most organizations get wrong: they talk about not burning out, not working too many hours, and maybe they even understand the negative impacts on work quality that come from overwork.  But who gets the kudos during team meetings or all-hands meetings? It's not the ones setting boundaries to protect their mental health. It's the ones who work all the time.

Hate “The Algorithm?” RSS Is One of the Tools You’ve Been Looking For

Since at least the moment Facebook introduced (and apologized for) its News Feed, “the algorithm” has been shorthand for the ways the tech giants control what we see and when we see it. In the age of enshittification, there is a push to reclaim our feeds and networks. Good news: there’s a tool that’s been around for decades that can help wrangle many of your feeds into something manageable: Really Simple Syndication, more commonly known as RSS.

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Have We Considered that it's not Remote Work that Causes Mental Health Issues, but a Culture That Makes it Harder?

We could create a workplace where people could work from the coffee shop and interact with other humans in person. Where they didn't spend so much time working that they could use that saved commute time to attend community events. We just don't. Instead, we expect remote workers to be available all the time; we tie them up in meetings for 5-6 hours a day because that's how we "keep an eye" on them, and still expect them to hit all their deliverables.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) July 26, 2026

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AI agents are not your “coworkers”

Marketing AI agents as digital employees may make human workers worse at spotting errors and more likely to offload accountability.

M365 News Roundup for - July 2026

Another new Copilot feature = another new cost

TechnoLlama

The under-16 social media ban and the rise of “show me your papers” internet

There’s a small indie game from 2013 that I think about often. In Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please you play an immigration inspector at the border of the gloriously miserable communist repub…

M365 News Roundup for August 2026

Copilot Super-app?

Microsoft warns customers AI will mean busier Patch Tuesdays

More patches mean more reasons to buy Redmond’s auto-patching tools

Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #195

Are we destined to never stop working?

Career Sherpa

The Networking Strategy: Building Your Foundation

Stop relying solely on job boards. Learn how to build a proactive networking strategy, identify key connections, and master your elevator pitch to land your next role.

Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #196

What does the foundation of your network look like?

Dr Victoria Holt: life, the universe and everything: AI Governance is a Hollow Framework Without Data Governance

Music influencers are getting paid to promote songs — and they're not telling you

Social media can make a song go viral — even push it up the pop charts — seemingly overnight. Perhaps it's not surprising that some influencers are being paid to promote music without disclosing it.

Class actions against law firms for data breaches takes a new turn

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Why AI is Bad for Women Workers

turns out there are lots of reasons!

Snopes

How to spot AI images: A fact-checker

Though artificial intelligence tools have improved, our team has developed more skills for detecting AI fakes.

New Ideas Legal Tech

AI Security: A Human In The Loop Is Essential. It's Not Enough.

"Human in the loop" has quickly become one of the most reassuring phrases in the modern AI vocabulary. It suggests prudence, restraint, and—above

Hunting for Agentic Attack Artifacts

Traditional indicators of compromise still matter, but agentic attacks leave a different class of residue.

You can't teach organisations to value information management until you teach them to value information - and why that's a blindspot for us

Why would anyone spend money to manage something that they don't value?

Prosearch

Discovery Isn't Sequential. So Why Is Your Workflow? - Prosearch

Our profession is redrawing its map as we speak. EDRM 2.0, the first real update to the reference model in over a decade, is in public comment through the end of July, and it is thoughtful work by people who care deeply about this field. But a reference model has one job: documenting the consensus about how the work flows. It can't tell you why the work flows that way. It isn't supposed to.

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Worth Reading - America is Heading Toward the Infinite Workweek Thanks to AI

Wait, I thought AI was supposed to give us more time back? Turns out that's not what is going on; the AI is creating more work and raising expectations that we all keep doing more.

Rising ‘bring your own AI’ trend can spell trouble for employers, expert warns

Without clear oversight, employee adoption of personally sourced AI tools can lead to issues with accuracy and compliance, career expert Keith Spencer said.

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Worth Reading - The AI Productivity Illusion

The core question in the post above is pretty simple. Generative AI has helped people finish tasks more quickly and probably completed more tasks, at least when their time is not taken up with cleaning up the slop from poorly generated work, but there haven't been any widespread economic productivity gains.  What if we're completing more tasks, but they have no value?

Recalled Messages

Soon you'll be able to recall external emails in different M365 tenants

The AI Protective Order Double Standard

I’ve spent forty-odd years watching the discovery process get weaponized, not always to protect legitimate interests, but often to price opponents out of the fight. I’ve seen it with discovery, pri…

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Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 | IBM

IBM’s global Cost of a Data Breach Report 2026 provides up-to-date insights into cybersecurity data breaches and their financial impacts on organizations.

Futurism

AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of Debt

AI companies are pouring tens of billions of dollars into enormous data centers. They're being built on top of a mountain of hidden debt.

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Worth Reading - EDRM Invites Global Community to Shape EDRM 2.0 via Public Comment

Those of you in the eDiscovery arena might already be aware of this new public comment period for the EDRM version 2.0. I took a quick look at it, and the one thing I will say is that I agree that eDiscovery is part of the Information Governance strategy for every firm, so I was glad to see that model as the underlying thread.  It also helps, when thinking about AI, to bring it into the full IG scope rather than considering it only as an eDiscovery problem. Because it's likely not that big of a

Stop Overloading Your Middle Managers and Start Redesigning the Role

Middle management are juggling two roles at once — and struggling with both. The problem is the role was never properly designed in the first place.

Thought-provoking Things Worth Sharing - Issue #194

Deep holiday weekend thoughts about career changes

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Worth Reading - Corporate America spends billions on mental health services. 97% never use it.

The combination of the stigma of calling in the first place, along with a program that doesn't meet the needs, means 97% of people won't bother with it. We should be looking at alternatives, for sure.

eDiscovery Today by Doug Austin

Comprehensive ESI Protocol Includes Hyperlinked Files, Generative AI and More

In this comprehensive ESI protocol, the parties negotiated the handling of hyperlinked files, disclosure of AI prompts and more.

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Shared Links (bi-weekly) July 12, 2026

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