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And poof! It’s December! It’s also Hanukkah! Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating!

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There are lots of interesting links in this week’s issue, so have a look below. But before you do, I want to let you know about an interview I am doing with Tessa Manuello Friday at noon EST. I will be making the big reveal on a project I have been working on to make working from home more productive and more socially engaging for lawyers. 

I don't have streaming details at this time, but you will be able to access the LinkedIn Live via Tessa's LinkedIn profile at noon on Friday. This will also be broadcast on YouTube. Reply to this email if you would like for me to send you broadcast details or a calendar reminder. 

Have a great rest of the week,

Marty Finestone

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

Events & Experiences

• Dec. 2: Loio - How to Make Your Legal Practice Thrive: choose the right tech for boosting your contract workflow efficiency. Details and registration here.
• Dec. 2: Gartner - Strategy to Action: Your Roadmap to Navigate Corporate Sustainability Risks. Details and registration here. 
• December 3: Singapore Academy of Law - Legal Talent Transformation: Enabling Trusted Future-ready Professionals. Details and registration here.

Substantive News & Insights 

• Make the effort to read this one (pun intended). The wording “all reasonable endeavours” was recently considered by the UK High Court. (via CMS Law-Now)
• Doing business in or with Taiwan is likelier to get tougher, or spell trouble, for those who also do business in or with China. (via Harris Bricken)
• Knowledge @Wharton's Beyond Business series considered how corporate governance and the function of boards are changing. (via Knowledge @ Wharton)
• The Court of Justice of the EU found that ads displayed in email inbox that are made to look like emails are subject to direct marketing rules.

In-house

• What In-House Counsel Need to Know About Managing Environmental, Social and Governance Issues. View the webinar recording here. (via In-House Connect)
• Navigating the challenges associated with external counsel. (via Coventus Leadership)
• The cyber insurance landscape is rapidly changing. Here's why keeping pace with the requirements of your cyber insurance provider is essential to protecting your company from risk. (via FTI Consulting)
• The Department of Slow & No – Value Storytelling. (via 3 Geeks and a Law Blog)

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• Google talks about its entry into the legal tech market. (via Artificial Lawyer)
• One document AI provider shares how it feels to now have Google as a competitor.
• Viewing IP rights through an information governance lens. (via Connect on Tech)

• "People working within legal ops must have 3 essential skills: 1. Legal expertise. 2. Some degree of tech literacy. 3. A fundamental understanding of business. Here is why." (via Contractbook)

Lawyers & Lawyering

• This is a longer and a bit sad of a read giving an inside look of the negatives of litigation financing. Clients Cry Foul Over Litigious Litigation Finance Company. (via Bloomberg Law)
• Five reasons lawyers avoid retirement. (via Attorney @ Work)
• The Winners in Law’s ‘Great Resignation’ Will Be Firms that Focus on Innovation, Not Compensation. (via Artificial Lawyer)

Work

• Here's a video on how to write and edit with inclusivity and sensitivity. (via PerfectIt)
• Three theories for why you feel like you are always running out time or have no time. (via The Atlantic $)
  
• Advice for how to take criticism. (via The School of Life)
• 8 advanced Slack features that'll make your life easier. (via Make Use Of)
• This website lets you play background noise replicating an office.

Life

• Three tricks to maximize your coffee drinking to be more productive. (via CNBC)
• Making friends as an adult is just hard. (viaWBUR)
• 12 books to read before you start something. (via The DO Team)
• Results from a recent study that followed 365,682 individuals over 10-14 years, showed that regular coffee or tea drinkers had the lowest incidence of stroke or dementia. Looks like coffee will keep you going for years to come. (via Good News Network)

Balance

• Yikes! It looks like we are really living in the worst timeline. The internet unearthed an article from the July 1997 issue of WIRED magazine that made some eerily prophetic predictions about the 21st century and most of which have "come true in one way or another" — including a pandemic, skyrocketing energy prices, climate change and Brexit. (via Digg)
• Just like in the movies! NASA is going to try to re-direct the path of an asteroid by crashing a spacecraft into it. (via The Weather Network)
• The Smithsonian’s Museum of African American History and Culture goes digital. (via Hyperallergic)

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