Hi,

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

I want to give a warm welcome to all the new subscribers who have joined With Less recently. I am excited to have you on board!

There were two notable developments over the past week: 

1. The SEC released a proposed rule which will require public companies to disclose climate-related information in their filings. 
2. The EU and US agreed in principle on a new trans-Atlantic data flow agreement. 

I have a round up of articles on both developments below.

And now for something much more exciting, I am running a legal design for in-house counsel workshop on Friday the 8th!

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Doing More With Less

Using Legal Design

- a With Less Workshop - 

Join me on Friday April 8th at 12:00 pm Eastern, for the first With Less Workshop - Doing More With Less Using Legal Design.

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. Go here for more information.

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 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 actually 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 free spot today!

I hope you can attend 🙂

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. 6 @ : 8:30 am GMT: Sole lawyers and small in-house teams. (The Centre for Legal Leadership)
  
• Apr. 6 @ 11:00 am Eastern: Crossing the Contract AI Chasm: 6 Key Trends Uncovered. (Malbek)
• Apr. 8 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: With Less Workshop: Doing More With Less Using Legal Design. (Marty Finestone)
• Apr. 8 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: LinkedIn For In-House Counsel: How To Leverage LinkedIn To Grow Your Personal Brand & Increase Visibility For Career Success. (In-house Connect)
• Apr. 12 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Trademark Essentials For In-House Counsel: Best Practices For Managing The Most Common In-House Trademark Issues. (In-house Connect)
• Apr. 13 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Redlines: How Smarter Redlining Can Improve Your Contract Negotiations. (Parley Pro)
• Apr. 14 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Terms and Conditions: A Review of Commercial Agreements in the Alcohol Industry. (McDermott Will & Emery)
• Apr. 14 @ 1:00 pm Eastern:  How to Streamline Contract Management by Leveraging the Right Technology, at the Right Time. (Today's General Counsel)
• Apr. 21 @ 11:30 am GMT: Developing your in-house legal skills. (The Centre for Legal Leadership)
  
• May 11 - 12: Counselwell Summit 2022 - virtual conference for in-house lawyers. ($ Counselwell).
  

Substantive News & Insights

• SEC issues ground breaking climate disclosure proposal. (via WilmerHale)
  
• It’s here - the move from voluntary to mandatory ESG disclosures begins with climate. (via Seyfarth Shaw)
• Sea Change: The SEC makes waves with new proposed climate disclosure rules. (via Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld)
  
• ESG disclosure in Canada - legal requirements, voluntary disclosure and potential liability. (via Fasken)
• Updates on CBCA diversity disclosure guidelines: how to successfully disclose diversity for the upcoming proxy season. (via Fasken)
• EU, US agree 'in principle' to new trans-Atlantic data agreement. (via IAPP)
• United States and European Commission announce trans-Atlantic data privacy framework: Setting the scene for Schrems iii? (via National Law Review)
  
• White House announcement on United States and European Commission Announce Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. 
• In the meantime.....5 things to know about Google Analytics, Transfers and Schrems II. (via Fox Rothschild)
  
• In first CCPA “opinion”, California AG clarifies scope of access requests. (via Sheppard Mullin)
• Key takeaways: 2021 ABA private target mergers & acquisitions deal points study. (via National Law Review)
• DOJ’s guidance confirms businesses open to the public must make web content accessible. (via Ballard Spahr)
• Copying of unpatented technology permitted by English law when confidentiality obligations terminated. (via Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP)
• US Copyright Office Review Board reaffirms that human authorship is a prerequisite for copyright protection. (via Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman)
• Are your construction contracts ready for the ongoing impact of COVID? (via Cole Schotz)
• Businesses buzzing with news of Utah’s new comprehensive privacy law. (via Clearly Gottlieb)
• Voiding a subcontract term because it violates a procurement statute. (via Kristi Morgan Aronica)
• Delaware Court of Chancery rejects claim for veil-piercing. (via Fox Rothschild)

In-house

• In-house counsel out of a job after using wildly inappropriate nicknames for co-workers. (via Above the Law)
• Checklist to prepare for possible Russian cyberattack. (via Sensei Enterprises)
• What international businesses need to know about the U.S. Corporate Transparency Act. (via Klemchuk)
• NYC Commission on Human Rights issues guidance on salary disclosure law. (via Proskauer)
  
• What to consider when launching a cause marketing campaign. (via Global Advertisers Lawyers Alliance)
  
• Giving the law a second chance and what makes a great in house lawyer with Brittany Leonard. (via Counsel podcast)
• Hybrid work tests in-house attorneys' relationship-building skills. (via Law.com)

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• How to screw up like a pro choosing your enterprise CLM. (via AXDRAFT)

• Invoice review will bring us together. (via Elevate)

• After COVID pauses, legal departments tech spend flourishes in uncertain environment. (via Law.com)

Lawyers & Lawyering

• Help! I’ve forgotten how to network! (via International Lawyers Network)
• Linked: Google routinely hides emails from litigation by CCing attorneys, DOJ alleges. (via Mike McBride Online)
• How to create a stronger LinkedIn cover image. (via Stefanie Marrone)

Work

• A manual for finding and building a mentor-mentee relationship. (via Mailchimp)
• The future of work: Not the office or home. (via The Hill)
• Calendar mastery to support wellbeing. (via Rowena Hennigan)
• Stop wasting people’s time with meetings. (via Harvard Business Review $)

Life

• Stop venting! It doesn’t work. (via Slate)
• Productivity addiction: when we become obsessed with productivity. (via Ness Labs)
• What happened when I ditched social media in the mornings. (via Zapier)

• Watch: How to control your impulses so you don't ruin your life. "I think nowadays there’s so much opportunity and so much reward for 'go' that we don’t train the 'no go' pathways." (via The Knowledge Project s YouTube Channel)

• Watch: The productivity secret of Michelin-star chefs. (via Tiago Forte's YouTube Channel)

Balance

• Goldman Sachs CEO to DJ at Lollapalooza. (via Consequence of Sound)
• YouTube adds nearly 4,000 tv episodes to stream for free. (via Variety)
• Lessons from 19 years in the metaverse. (via Galaxy Brain)

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