1. Everything said when you are functioning in a legal context must be accurate. Period. Exaggerations or any false statements, even made thinking they are correct at the time can bite you later. Research and understand what you are talking about before commenting.

2. The Legal team needs to have a solid relationship and good communication practices with the IT group. Courts are relying more and more on the lawyer being able to speak intelligently about the organization’s capabilities to do things like recover documentation and what specific information would be needed to find the right data.

3. Your policies (exampled via data retention policies) must be modeled with all applicable laws and industry rules in mind - not just a single one, or a group of laws/rules/guidelines your specific industry is required to follow. By strictly complying to or fixating on one set of rules you could be breaking others or ignoring common sense. Remember the big picture.

4. Identification and Signatures are two different things and should not be confused. Signatures are “a symbol adopted with intent”, meaning that even items you might not think of as a signature (such as a email from your account to another person - or your name typed at the bottom of a message) might be considered legally binding depending on circumstance and intent.

5. When talking about Terms and Conditions - make sure everyone knows yours, and repeat them as often as you must in order to keep them known.

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After going through the vast majority of this winter there are only a few additional thoughts I have on the lasik experience:

1. When my eyes get tired, they are tired. It’s time to shut them for a bit, otherwise I’m blinking for the rest of the evening and they feel slightly irritated.

2. I still get dry eye occasionally, which rarely (never?) happened before Lasik, but it’s a pretty minor experience. A bit of rest, or hanging out in a slightly humid environment fixes them up pretty quick. One other trick I can use in emergencies is to put a eye drop or two in each eye and close them for five minutes or so, that usually gets them back on track. The one time when the dryness of my eyes is more apparent than others is when driving with the A/C on - airflow on my face without enough humidity will suck the moisture right out of them. It’s quickly remedied by turning off the A/C for a few moments in most cases.

That’s about it. The vast majority of the time I don’t think about my vision or have any issues with it. Still have 20/20 or better and am very satisfied with the experience.

In interest of full disclosure I’ll state that my near-sight vision is a bit worse than it was a few years back, but I started to notice that a bit before the Lasik. That particular issue is a side effect of age, not eye surgery :^). I just need to stop opting for the highest resolution possible in the smallest screen size when buying computer monitors, for day to day reading and non-monitor activities my vision is still great.

Rating of Lasik so far: Absolutely worth it.

For those of you who want a second opinion, there was a article on Lasik in Consumer Reports at some point in the last several months. Here is a link to a tidbit about it: Consumer Reports