Hi,

Welcome to With Less - a weekly newsletter dedicated to helping legal creatively do more with less. 

By popular demand, I've added a new date for my Doing More With Less Using Legal Design workshop for in-house counsel! 

Join me on Friday May 6th at 12:00 pm Eastern for this free legal design workshop for in-house counsel. Full details are here.

In this highly interactive and hands-on workshop, we’ll connect the dots between legal design and tackling the common refrain of in-house having to do more with less.

Here's a Taste of What We Will Do Together:
✔ Move away from thinking like a lawyer to thinking like a legal designer (and learning what that means)
✔ Participate in roleplaying exercises to get you using legal design (without knowing it) to take your legal service delivery to the next level
✔ Get you thinking big
✔ Set you on the right track to developing solutions to real problems
✔ Show how it doesn’t take years or tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to make an impactful change (the good kind) to the legal function
✔ Have fun & get creative

As this is a workshop, spaces are limited so grab your spot soon!

Go here to register.

Have a great rest of the week!  

Marty

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Here are the articles, tips, think pieces, and other reads I want to share with you this week.

!Events in bold are new to the list this week.

Webinars & Online Events

• Apr. 21 @ 11:30 am GMT: Developing your in-house legal skills. (The Centre for Legal Leadership)
  
• Apr. 21 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Digital Transformation Essentials For Corporate Counsel: Key Basics For Driving Legal Tech Innovation In Your Legal Department. (In-house Connect)
• Apr. 21 @ 2:00 pm Eastern: Strategies and Tools for Keeping Clients Happy. (Clio)
• Apr. 24 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: How to Negotiate US Government Contract & Subcontract Provisions with Christoph Mlinarchik. (How to Contract Network)
• Apr. 27 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: Legal Automation - How Soon is Now? (ECFX).
• Apr. 28 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: European Compliance Update: What In-House Counsel Need To Know About The New Deal For Consumers (AKA The Next GDPR). (In-house Connect)
• Apr. 28 @ 4pm BST: Doing Things Differently In Legal: An Expert Discussion. (Summize)
• May 5 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: Environmental Social Governance & How Enterprises Can Advance Sustainability Initiatives: A Discussion with Christine Uri, Chief Legal Officer of ENGIE Impact. (Hanzo)
• May 11 - 12: Counselwell Summit 2022 - virtual conference for in-house lawyers. ($ Counselwell).
• May 17 @ 4:00 pm Eastern: Communication Skills For In-House Counsel: Key Tips For In-House Lawyers To Better Communicate With The Business. (In-house Connect)

Substantive News & Insights

• The risks of negotiating a proposed transaction with an expired letter of intent. (via Dentons)
• Liability clauses – do they exclude what you think they exclude? Key ruling on wasted expenditure and loss of profits from the UK Court of Appeal. (via Baker McKenzie)
• Cryptocurrency as compensation: beware of the risks. (via Hunton Andrews Kurth)
• Overview of recent key EU digital regulation & compliance developments. (via Mofo)
• New UK Court of Appeal determination on no privacy of personal emails sent on business email accounts. (via DAC Beachcroft)
• Greenwashing – a new regulatory risk. (via WilmerHale)
• Peppa Pig verdict in Russia worries IP rights holders. (via Klemchuk)
• Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms. (via TechCrunch)
• Shareholder activism – lessons from Huntsman’s proxy fight victory over Starboard. (via Kirkland &Ellis)
• In a first of its kind trial, a defendant accused of negligently responding to a data breach was cleared of all liability by a jury last month. (via Hogan Lovells)
• Global M&A market drops to pre-pandemic levels. (via White & Case)
• How new tech is creating privacy concerns and modernizing IP law in Canada. (via Lexpert)

In-house

• What is a deal desk? How legal, sales & revenue ops can win together. (via Juro)

• In-house counsel denounce rising Biglaw bills as ‘out of kilter with reality’. (via Above the Law)

• Most US and UK-based in-house counsel want to work from home. (via NZ Lawyer)

• Legal departments face increasing technology risks, from AI to computer code. (via Law.com)

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• Legal operations tips for controlling outside counsel costs. (via Global Legal Post)
• Modern legal operations are at the intersection of law, business and technology. (via ABA Journal)
• The legal tech tools clients are actually using – TR report. (via Artificial Lawyer)
• BriefCatch rolls out new version of its legal editing tool, now compatible with Macs. (via LawSites) I'm a big fan and user of BriefCatch.
• Is mobile the future of legal tech?(via Lawtomated)

Lawyers & Lawyering

• National group of professional responsibility lawyers calls on ABA to eliminate geographic restrictions on law practice. (via Law Sites)
• ALSPs? Big Four are the ‘dominant brands’. (via Artificial Lawyer)
• 'I'm sick of it': from pants to pantyhose, female lawyers are tired of wardrobe scrutiny. (via Law.com)

Work

• The guilt-free guide to working from home with kid. (via Work Life)
• Keeping it real: how to prioritize authentic business choices. (via MailChimp)
• Stunning stat: 92% of executives at medium to large firms think workers who turn cameras off during meetings don't have long-term futures at the company, according to a new survey  (via Axios)
• Why you should schedule all your emails? (via Fast Company)
• Ergonomics experts explain how to set up your desk. (via Open Culture)

Life

• The case for taking naps (even at work). (via Harvard Business Review $)

• How to find that book you’ve spent years looking for. (via Utne Reader)

• 11 ways to upgrade your wi-fi and make your internet faster. (via Wired)

• 7 ways to improve your privacy in 2022. (via Mashable)

Balance

• We’ve underestimated sprinkles. (via Taste)
• Here’s how an algorithm guides a medical decision. (via The Verge)
• Anonymous buyer pays over $1 million for a piece of invisible art. (via Smithsonian Magazine)
• A rebrand for Barcelona’s waste collection services paints an unexpected and delightful picture-book depiction of the city. (via It's Nice That)

• The great restaurant name vibe shift. There’s a reason so many restaurants have *almost* the same name. (via Bon Appetit

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