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I never worked for big law, but medium law is terrible. Partners can just order the IT department to do anything. We had a new head of IT that tried to implement some common sense changes for an organization that handles sensitive data. Basic stuff: Block websites that tend to be malware vectors, don't let users be admins on their own machines, restrict USB storage to certain users, etc. We were forced to override it on the partners machines almost immediately.

I had the great fortune of knowing Andrzej Jesmanowicz, one of the participants in this story. He did MRI research at the Medical College of Wisconsin. He was also a helicopter pilot, skydiver (how I met him), and total maniac in the best possible way. Andre died in 2016 and some of his friends got together to spread his ashes over Wisconsin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZhCCohSBg