Employment Attorney @strowhirolaw | AWI-CH | #teenylaw | mom | #penfluencer, crocheter, & golfer | views, pens, pans, & puns are my own

Joined May 2016
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Hello! I’m Michelle Strowhiro, an employment lawyer based in Southern California. Today, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of my boutique employment law firm: @strowhirolaw.
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When I post about brands getting sued for using unlicensed music in social posts, people ask whether it's just the big record labels going after the big brands. Here's a case filed today by the producer of a Dario Lessing track who owns the rights to it. He's suing Tastemade over an IG post using that track. The complaint notes that the track "is not contained in any commercial music libraries licensed to Meta, TikTok, or other social networks." Key word there being "commercial." If you post content to a brand/business page, assume that you are posting commercial content. And if you post commercial content, you cannot use the general music library available to individual users, which includes popular and trending tracks. Instead, you either need to use the platform commercial libraries, a third-party library cleared for commercial use, or separately negotiate a license to use the track that you want to use.
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The CDC issued this Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to inform clinicians and health departments about the hantavirus disease cases caused by infection with Andes virus. The risk to the public's health in the United States is considered extremely low at this time. As a precaution, CDC is working to increase awareness of the outbreak among travelers, public health agencies, laboratories, and healthcare professionals nationwide. cdc.gov/han/php/notices/han0…
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Go Bruins! 🐻💙💛
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The astronauts not having an out of office on is making the rest of us look bad
JUST IN: Artemis II crew experiences issues with Microsoft Outlook on their way to the Moon, asks ground crew for assistance.
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I’m too trusting to be on the internet on a day like this
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Kids are on Spring break & I work from home. Me: "Okay kids, I'm going to my office to work now, let me know if there are any emergencies." *opens email* Kids: "MOM! CAN YOU COME HERE?" *closes email* Me: "Yes?" Kids: "Can you tell us which one of us is skipping correctly?"
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Just a reminder: don’t pinch your coworkers. Even if they’re not wearing green. There is no St. Patrick’s Day affirmative defense to harassment or assault. This has been a PSA from your friendly neighborhood employment lawyer.
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a reminder that these kinds of prompts are not privileged
ngl i was sweating for 2 mins
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i read this article in esquire when it was released in 2015 and i still think about it once a month: esquire.com/lifestyle/a34905…
Hugely sad for GQ and Esquire that "Why isn't there a The Cut for guys?" is a question that keeps swirling around!
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From the transcript. Can only imagine how many subpoenas these companies will receive in the future.
Your AI conversations aren't privileged. Yesterday, Judge Jed Rakoff ruled that 31 documents a defendant generated using an AI tool and later shared with his defense attorneys are not protected by attorney-client privilege or work product doctrine. The logic is simple: an AI tool is not an attorney. It has no law license, owes no duty of loyalty, and its terms of service explicitly disclaim any attorney-client relationship. Sharing case details with an AI platform is legally no different from talking through your legal situation with a friend (which is not privileged). You can't fix it after the fact, either. Sending unprivileged documents to your lawyer doesn't retroactively make them privileged. That's been settled law for years. It just hadn't been tested with AI until now. And here's what really hurt the defendant: the AI provider's privacy policy (Claude), in effect when he used the tool, expressly permits disclosure of user prompts and outputs to governmental authorities. There was no reasonable expectation of confidentiality. The core problem is the gap between how people experience AI and what's actually happening. The conversational interface feels private. It feels like talking to an advisor. But unless you negotiate for an enterprise agreement that says otherwise, you're inputting information into a third-party commercial platform that retains your data and reserves broad rights to disclose it. Judge Rakoff also flagged an interesting wrinkle: the defendant reportedly fed information from his attorneys into the AI tool. If prosecutors try to use these documents at trial, defense counsel could become a fact witness, potentially forcing a mistrial. Winning on privilege doesn't make the evidentiary picture simple. For anyone advising clients or managing legal risk, this is a wake-up call. AI tools are not a safe space for clients to process their counsel's advice and to regurgitate their legal strategy. Every prompt is a potential disclosure. Every output is a potentially discoverable document. So what do we do about it? First, attorneys need to be proactive. Advise clients explicitly that anything they put into an AI tool may be discoverable and is almost certainly not privileged. Put it in your engagement letters. Make it part of onboarding. Don't assume clients understand this, because most don't. Second, if clients want to use AI to help process legal issues (and they clearly will, increasingly), then let's give them a way to do it inside the privilege. Collaborative AI workspaces shared between attorney and client, where the AI interaction happens under counsel's direction and within the attorney-client relationship, can change the analysis entirely. I'm excited to be planning this kind of approach, and I think it's where the industry needs to head. storage.courtlistener.com/re…
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Remembering Catherine O’Hara. A master of simple yet brilliant delivery - this among her best
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Goodbye to a great actress 😎
catherine o'hara would want us to be laughing, so i've gotta post this schitt's creek clip where everyone thinks moira is dead
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catherine o'hara would want us to be laughing, so i've gotta post this schitt's creek clip where everyone thinks moira is dead
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Federal agents in Minneapolis wrestled Alex Pretti to the ground and secured the handgun he was carrying moments before shooting him multiple times, according to a Washington Post analysis of video footage. Read more: wapo.st/4qGOx8M
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“Please get the truth out about our son.”
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RT @TVietor08: This video shows Alex Pretti trying protect a protestor who is being assaulted, then he gets viciously beaten by federal age…
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“Imagine the chaos”
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Thousands of people have been arrested during ICE operations in Minnesota over the past two weeks. Multiple attorneys allege that for some of those detained, including at least one U.S. citizen, DHS is denying their constitutional right to see an attorney. abcnews.link/DkI8rEI
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I knit a sweater
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RT @rebmasel: And a video if you need to send to someone who won’t read it themselves. #ReneeGood (🧵4/4)
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