Hi,

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

We lawyers love checklists don’t we? Well, I’m working on a checklist to be undistracted to help attendees to this Friday’s With Less Workshop - Doing More With Less Using Legal Design (see here for more details and registration, which closes tonight) be present. 

While I have my own items for the Undistracted Checklist, I want your help. 

Reply to this email or send me a DM on LinkedIn with your suggestions for tuning down the distractions while attending an online event. What’s worked for you? What have you seen work? Thanks in advance!

As a thank you for helping me out, here’s a great playlist called Café et Croissant. I suggest playing this on random.

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. 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. 12 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Government Contracting Fundamentals Series: Changes: The Most Important Clause in Government Contracting. (via Obermayer)
  
• 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 @ 12:00 pm Eastern: Managing Outside Counsel For In-House Counsel: Learn How UBS Reduced Its Outside Counsel Spend By 20% Per Year Using AFAs Within PERSUIT. (In-house Connect)
• 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. 14 @ 1:00 pm Eastern: Delivering on the Promise of Legal Technology: What We Thought in 2008, and Where We Are Now. (Association of Certified E-Discovery Specialists (ACEDS))
• 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

• Six common contract traps: a field guide. (via Mintz)
• This contract tip from Laura Frederick about how vendors avoid responsibility for third-party elements incorporated into their products. 
• New case law on the enforceability of a consequential damages exclusion. (via Taft)
• Case law update - reasonable endeavours of the non-defaulting party in force majeure provisions under UK law. (via Stevens & Bolton)
  
• An M&A Guide for those who barely know what M&A is. (via Contract Nerds)
• Canada Business Corporations Act amendments impacting director elections and shareholder proposals are coming into force. (via Norton Rose Fulbright)
  
• EU Parliament, Council reach deal on Digital Markets Act. (via IAAP Review)
• The Digital Markets Act: What you need to know about the EU’s new DMA. (via The Stack)
• EU adopts new rules to significantly limit the power of tech platforms. (via Wilson Sonsini)
  
• California Attorney General’s Office releases first formal CCPA opinion. (via Ropes & Gray)
• Washington (the state) passes “Silenced No More Act” limiting nondisclosure and nondisparagement provisions in employment and independent contractor agreements. (via Proskaeur)
• How to conduct a due diligence review of NFTs. (via Bird & Bird)
  
• NFTs – what are they and what do they mean for retailers and their IP? (via HGF)
• What exactly is a “Transfer Impact Assessment”, and where the heck did it come from? (via Greenberg Taurig)
• Construction industry data security considerations. (via JacksonLewis)
• KEEP AN EYE ON THESE:
  
• • Introduction of new UK standard contractual clauses for personal data transfer. The key dates and next steps. (via Arthur Cox LLP)
  • UK government breaks new ground with revised Online Safety Bill. (via Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP)
  • Activist shareholders are on the rise. Whether that’s a good thing depends on who you ask. (via The Globe and Mail $) 

In-house

• Operational GC: lessons from the legal tech trenches. (via ACC Docket)
• Spring cleaning: getting your IP house in order. (via Aird & Berlis)
• Ready to receive your salary in crypto? Some things to consider. (via Carbert Waite)
• Human rights in supply chains: how new laws in Europe and the UK impact companies around the world. (via Jenner & Block)
• 4 tips for taking a people approach to deals. (via ACC Docket)
• How Invesco formalised an in-house solicitor training programme. (via Crafty Counsel)

Legal Ops & Legal Tech

• eDiscovery planning: your definitive ESI protocol checklist. (via Nextpoint)
• Claustack launches ‘oneDPA’. (via Artificial Lawyer)
• 10 European legaltech startups shaking up the industry to improve our daily lives. (via EU-Startups) A tap of the hockey stick to Dutch Legal Tech Update for this article.

Lawyers & Lawyering

• Useful outlook keyboard shortcuts for lawyers. (via Law Practice Tips) A tap of the hockey stick to MaryRose for sending that along.
• 10 tips for writing the perfect attorney website bio. (via Good2bSocial)

Work

• How to have more successful conversations. (via Knowledge @ Wharton)
• How remote work supports my career living with a disability. (via Float Blog)
• Zoom’s new virtual avatars let you show up to your next meeting as a dog or other animals. (via The Verge) SMH.
• Leaders' essential tips for async collaboration. (via Asynch Review)
• A survey of 2,000 remote and hybrid workers found a preference for more informal and emotive communication. (via Slack)

Life

• Research shows we often have an additive bias. Meaning when coming up with solutions, we look to add vs. subtract — even if it’s not the best option. (via Brain Lenses)
• A short primer on neurodiversity. (via Ness Labs)
• Stop believing these myths about creativity. (via Life Hacker)
• The multidisciplinary approach to thinking. (via Farnam Street)
• Why am I too tired to sleep (and what to do)? (via Lifehack)

Balance

• A former Yale employee admits she stole $40 million in electronics from the university. (via NPR)
• Why Canadian cities are so popular as test markets? (via Retail Brew) (Having lived in London, Ontario for years, I can vouch for this. Lots of interesting things were tested there, like McDonalds and KFC tried delivery in the 90's and digital TV and highspeed home internet in 1997.)
• The history and future of flag emojis. (via Did Someone Day Emoji)

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