Legal.io Newsletter - September 30, 2022

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Legal.io Newsletter - September 30, 2022

News

Gavin Newsom Signs Law Requiring All Companies to Include Salary Ranges 
- The new pay transparency law will require nearly 200k California companies with 15+ employees to disclose pay starting next year. More here

Lawyer Burnout Bad, But Not as Bad as Q4 2021 
- A Bloomberg Law survey reports lawyers feel burnout an average of 47% of the time in the first half of the year; which is down 5% from the last quarter of 2021. More here

Average office occupancy for law firms 
nationally was 60.7% for the week of Sept. 21, compared to 47.3% average occupancy of all other industries for that week, marking the highest level of occupancy since the start of the pandemic. More here.

TikTok Faces $29M Fine in UK - After the Information Commissioner's Office provisionally found that the company breached child data protection laws for a two-year timespan between May 2018 - July 2020. More here

AI: How Will In-House Law Depts Run in 10 Years? - Senior Legal Counsel Elizabeth Colombo talks through her predictions on how in-house law will change as AI becomes more integrated into workflows. More here

'Talent is Talking': Glassdoor Survey on What Matters Most to Employees - Of 850 employed professionals, 69% say it's extremely important that their employer has a brand they are proud to support. Download the report here.

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