Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/26/07

Here’s hoping everyone had a great Christmas, with plenty of fun and family time to make even the most professional, hard-working folks among us feel relaxed.

Getting back to the LexBlogosphere, the highlighted posts for December 26, 2007 include the following:

•  Move medical malpractice out of the courts? – New Hampshire lawyer David Austin of Burke & Eisner in the firm’s Cerebral Palsy Law Blog
• Practice & procedure: the comptroller intends to add more administrative hearing decisions to the STAR database – Dallas attorney Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Wolf Greenfield deals humor to market IP law – Legal marketing specialist Larry Bodine in his Law Marketing Blog
• Are numbers protected expression? – Texas lawyer Ray Nimmer of the University of Houston Law Center in his Contemporary Intellectual Property, Licensing & Information Law Blog
• Plan sponsors win – beneficiaries over 65 lose – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance in her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• DEFRA publishes research report on manufactured nanomaterials – Washington, D.C. attorney Lynn Bergeson of Bergeson & Campbell in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Blog
• NLRB broadens employers’ ability to ban union communications using corporate e-mail – Denver lawyer Philip Gordon of Littler Mendelson in the firm’s Workplace Privacy Counsel Blog
• Is the party over? – Senior consultant Ronda Muir at Robin Rolfe Resources in her blog, Law People
• Judge Ervin co-authors amicus brief in support of petitioner in Murray – Orange Park attorney David A. McCranie in his Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Ends runs around the statute of limitations – Maryland lawyer Ron Miller of Miller & Zois at the Trial Law Resource Center
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