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

Webinars & Online Events

• Feb. 10 @ 10:00 am EST: AI on the battlefield: contract review with Loio vs. manual review. (Loio)
  
• Feb. 10 @ Noon EST: International Expansion for In-House Counsel (In-house Connect)
• Feb. 10 @ 2:00 pm EST: Navigate regulatory changes and improve contract compliance with AI. (Evisort)
• Feb. 12 @ 9:00 am EST: Designing Better Contracts with Visuals - Legal Design Art Gallery and Panel Discussion. (Legal Creatives $)
• Feb. 22 @ 9:00 am EST: Judicial review of antitrust law matters on both sides of the Atlantic. (The Legal 500)
• Feb. 22 @ 10:00 am EST:  Gartner Top Legal and Compliance Tech Predictions for 2022 and Beyond. (Gartner)
• Mar. 1 @ 10:00 am EST: Is mobile the future of legal tech? (Fliplet)

Substantive News & Insights

• Top 10 advertising and marketing issues to watch for in 2022. (via Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance)
• UK clamps down on crypto. (via Gowling WLG)
• SEC settlement shows Commission’s willingness to waive penalties for investigatory targets focusing on corrective action. (via Troutman Pepper)
• FTC gives online retailer 0 stars, makes it pay $4.2 million for suppressing negative reviews on its website. (via GreenbergTraurig)
  
• Top 5 U.S. employment law trends for 2022. (Kelly Drye - Labor Days)
  
• Best practices under English law for electronic signatures. (via Burges Salmon)
• Explainer on the significant proportion of EU law kept in the UK, which is known as "retained EU law." (via Travers Smith)
• Privity of contract between the government and a subcontractor? Maybe, but don’t count on it. (via Kristi Morgan Aronica)
• Federal court in Georgia finds customer contact information may be a trade secret, interprets customer and employee non-solicit provisions under Georgia’s Restrictive Covenants Act. (via FordHarrison - no relation to Harrison Ford)
• Ontario Superior Court confirms that recent ESA amendments do not invalidate non-compete clauses entered into prior to October 25, 2021. (via McCarthy Tetrault)
  

In-house

• What’s coming for legal departments in 2022? (via Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists)
• Podcast: From Radical to Trailblazer, How Innovative GC Jeffrey Carr Disrupted the Legal Department, Part 1 (via LawNext)
  
• As the California Attorney General focuses on loyalty programs, what do companies need to remember? (via Data Privacy Dish)
• Association of Corporate Counsel and the ACC Foundation have developed a DEI maturity model to help organizations measure and improve their DEI programs. Read more about it and download the model here.
• What you don’t have can’t hurt you – reducing cyber risk through proper data management. (via Baker McKenzie)
• Counselwell announced their two-day virtual conference that will be happening May 11-12. The speaker lineup looks, wow!

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• How to set legal KPIs in 2022. (via Juro)
• How to leverage legal data for strategic business decisions as a GC. (via SimpleLegal)
  
• Can technology give legal services a transformational makeover in 2022? (via The Law Society Gazette) 
  
• Why corporate counsel should rethink the Electronic Discovery Reference Model process in 2022. (via ZyLab)

Lawyers & Lawyering

• Top growth industries and legal practice areas for 2022. (via Attorney At Work)
• Lawyers beware: criticizing judges can be hazardous to your professional health. (via Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC)

Work

• Does your team suffer from having unclear roles and responsibilities? Then do this. (via Thoughtful Leader)
• The importance of anonymous feedback. (via The Happiness Index)
• Here’s how to find happiness again at your job. (via Yahoo! Money)

Life

• Positive Thoughts + Positive Actions = Positive Results. (via Entrepreneur)
• Why is it so hard to get out of your comfort zone? (via Psychology Today)
  
• 100+ hacks for boosting your body’s happiness chemicals. (via The Emotion Machine)

Balance

• What it’s like to work out in Mark Zuckerberg’s metaverse? (via Inside Hook)
• What a hobby feels like. (via Culture Study)
• Join the U.S. National Museum of American History for an impressive lineup of virtual Black History Month events, including cooking demonstrations, virtual jazz concerts, and moderated discussions.

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