Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/18/07

LexBlogosphere updates will take a temporary hiatus for the next two days, as I will be entirely out of communication. We’ll have a roundup of highlights from the missed days when I return Friday.

The posts highlighted for December 18, 2007 include:

• Sexual harassment of Santa Claus – what’s an employer to do? – Stamford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Epstein Becker & Green in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog (this post was also picked up by Above The Law)
• Health insurance providers going after injury settlements – Juliet Sallette at LaBovick & LaBovick in the firm’s Injury Law Blog
• Anonymous in Arizona? Maybe not – Los Angeles lawyer Jeremy Mittman of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s Privacy Law Blog
• Florida will-drafting attorney at center of $1.5 million estate battle has law license suspended – Miami attorney Juan Antunez of Stokes McMillan Maracini & Antunez in his Florida Probate & Trust Litigation Blog
• Update on the 2007 term of the U.S. Supreme Court - Las Vegas lawyer Tami Cowden of Kummer Kaempfer in her blog, Appealing in Nevada
• Covered opinions under Circular 230 – Texas attorney Jack Howell of Sprouse Shrader Smith in the firm’s Tax Law and Business Organization Strategy Domain Blog
• Bringing Medicare to the settlement table is not so easy – New Jersey lawyer Richard J. Webb of Healthcare Neutral in the firm’s Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog
• Senate passes S.274, a whistleblower protection law for federal employees – Marshall Chriswell of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund in their Whistleblower Protection Blog
• Prepaid Legal Services: is it worth it? – Liz Overton at Sullivan & Ward in the firm’s Iowa Law Blog
• Bill seeking broadcast performance royalty introduced in Congress – Washington, D.C. attorney David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Broadcast Law Blog