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The Major Microsoft Teams Challenge Stumping Legal & Compliance Teams

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Since 2019, the number of users on Microsoft Teams has risen 1500%, from a modest 20 million users in the pre-pandemic year (2019) to over 320 million users in 2024. Microsoft's collaboration platform is now the default...more

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Ephemeral Messaging

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As U.S. regulators and enforcement authorities alike become increasingly focused on corporate oversight practices of their employees' use of third-party messaging applications, including ephemeral messaging, companies should...more

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The Dangers of Texting for Business Communications

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In the not-so-distant past, there were fewer channels utilized for business communications, and business norms often limited communications to traditional channels even if other methods of communication were available. This...more

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National Employment Perspective: Focus on the NLRB and Employee Communication

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Recent Changes to NLRB Guidance Regarding Employers’ Policies Involving Employee Communication - Two recent decisions by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have significantly overturned earlier rulings regarding...more

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National Labor Relations Board Expands Employers’ Rights to Enforce Workplace Rules

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In a pair of significant year-end rulings, the National Labor Relations Board overturned two Obama-era precedents that had restricted the ability of both unionized and non-unionized employers to limit the use of company email...more

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Board Overturns Purple Communications, Restores Employer Right to Restrict Email Use

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On December 17, 2019, in a 3-1 decision split along party lines, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) restored to employers the right to restrict employees from using company email systems for nonbusiness purposes.  The...more

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NLRB Restores Employers’ Right to Restrict Employees’ Personal Use of Company Email and Other IT Resources

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In Caesars Entertainment d/b/a Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino, Case 28-CA-060841 (December 16, 2019), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) ruled that employees do not have a statutory right under the National Labor...more

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NLRB Reverses Purple Communications – Holds Employer May Restrict Employees’ Use of Email and Other Information Technology Systems

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On December 17, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) ruled that an employer’s rule prohibiting use of its email system for nonbusiness purposes did not violate employees’ rights under the National Labor...more

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NLRB Strengthens Right to Restrict Non-Work Use of Company Email

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On December 16, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (the “Board”) issued a new decision that strengthens employers’ right to restrict employees from using company email for non-work reasons. Caesars Entertainment, No....more

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Collaboration Platforms: Great for Collaborating, Problematic for Ediscovery and Compliance

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Most knowledge work these days demands some form of collaboration. You draft a document; your colleagues comment on it and make suggestions for how it could be better. You chat on Slack about how to incorporate those...more

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