Do you have a side hustle? I now do, albeit an unpaid one. I just started my gig as a volunteer legal advisor for my daughter's high school mock trial team.
This year's case is fascinating. It's a suppression hearing over the issue of whether a student should have been Mirandized prior to being questioned by a school administration and a school resource officer. For the record, the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education's production values are off the chain.
I'm not a criminal attorney, and I've handled exactly one criminal case in my career (which I won at trial). In fact, nearly everything I know about criminal procedure I learned from a law school class I took 27 years ago plus my Law & Order addiction. That said, trial skills are trial skills, and I'm looking forward to using mine to help Lake Ridge Academy's team return to states for the 2nd consecutive year (and the 17th time overall).
While I'm on the topic of my daughter, please do she and I a solid and check out the latest episode of The Norah and Dad Show, now streaming everywhere, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Overcast, Stitcher, and on the web.
Here's what I read this past week that I think you should read, too.
Ransomware 3.0: The Next Frontier — via Dark Reading
EEOC's LGBT Bathroom/Dress Code/Locker Room Guidance Gets Nixed by Another Federal Court Judge — via The Employment Brief
Can a company fire someone who it believes will join a pending wage and hour class action against it? — via Eric Meyer's The Employer Handbook Blog
Apple Ramps Up Union-Busting Ahead of Latest Apple Store Union Election — via More Perfect Union
Apple fires exec after he made crude jokes on the expensive car guy's TikTok — via The Verge