Welcome back friends! 

I hope you missed With Less, even just a little bit.

I’ve returned from a two-week hiatus where I was supposed to enjoy my 14^th wedding anniversary, Canada Day, my birthday, and a vacation. Instead, I’ve been experiencing “Hot COVID Summer.” COVID, especially this new BA.5 variant is no fun. I highly recommend avoiding it. It took me almost 3 weeks to feel closer to normal.

Stay safe and keep cool – well as cool as possible in this heat!

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

• July 21 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Navigating Indemnification for In-House Counsel. (In-house Connect)
• July 26 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Intellectual Property Management for In-House Counsel: Auditing And Structuring Your Company’s IP Portfolio. (in-house Connect)
• July 27 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Best Practices for Managing Outside Counsel Spend Effectively. (In-house Connect)
• July 28 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Key metrics and KPIs for in-house counsel. (In-house Connect)
• July 28 @ 3:00 pm Eastern: Challenging the Gender Pay Gap in Legal. (Law Trades)
• August 4 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: Best Practices for Negotiating Indemnification in SaaS Contracts. (How to Contract)
• August 10 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: The Power of Redlines: How Smarter Redlining Can Improve Your Contract Negotiations: Part II. (Parley Pro)
• August 17 @ 5:00 pm Pacific: Contract Nerds Mixer (Los Angeles) - in person event for lawyers & contract professionals! (Contract Nerds)

Tips, Resources, and Insights

• This explainer on four concepts in contracts for manufactured goods. (via Laura Frederick)
• Great advice on optimizing your legal department. (via Laura Jeffords Greenberg)
• The Power of Redlines: how smarter redlining can improve your contract negotiations. (via Nada Alnajafi & Parley Pro)
• Six months to go: preparing for the new and updated privacy laws in California and Virginia. (via Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP)
• Put your commission agreements in writing: 10 things to include in sales representative agreements. (via Levenfeld Pearlstein, LLC)
• Avoid legal risks when pushing brand boundaries. (via Bird & Bird)
• A non-U.S company’s guide to doing business in the U.S: a playbook for accessing the U.S market. (via Miller Nash LLP)
• Top 4 considerations when appealing commercial arbitration awards. (via Torkin Manes)

Law & Policy News

• No Non-Compete? No problem. Texas court grants TRO forcing former employees to stop working for competing business. (via Crowell)
• New UN guidance on how businesses should ensure respect for human rights in conflict-affected areas. (via Hogan Lovells)
• U.S. Supreme Court rules on the requirements for a waiver of the right to arbitrate. (via Proskauer)
• UK Information Commissioner’s Office and the National Cyber Security Centre tell lawyers don't advise clients to make ransom payments. (via Ropes & Gray)

In-house

• How to implement an effective GC succession plan. (via Legal Dive)
• How GCs can parlay showing value into getting more resources for the legal department. (via Burford Capital)
• Yikes! Former in-house lawyer disbarred for falsifying employee complaints against company, pocketing settlement money. (via Law.com - paywall possible)

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• Knowledge management basics for corporate legal departments. (via Legal Tech Hub)
• Four lessons I learned from building a legal workspace by Stephanie Ng-Fragner, General Counsel at Pollen. (via Juro)
  
• How legal organizations build competitive advantage by proactively tackling unstructured data. (via Law.com - paywall possible)

Leadership & Workplace

• A new metric can help identify potential leaders who have what it takes to thrive in times of disruption. (via Strategy & Business)
• Important steps when building a new team. (via MIT Human Resources)
• Why being humble is so important in the world of work. (via World Economic Forum)

Ideas

• 21 minute habits that can boost your productivity by 100%. (via Calendar)
• Slow down, it’s what your brain has been begging for. (via Psyche)

Looks Interesting

• This website lets you see how many people are in space at any given time and how many days they’ve been up there. 
• What does thread count really mean for bed sheets—and does it even matter? (via Mental Floss)
• Independent booksellers grew in number, diversity in 2021. (via AP News)
• An international non-profit is using fan activism, training, and community building to empower fans from across the globe and make the world a better place. (via GoodGoodGood)

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