Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/11/07

Today’s update features news from around the country, covering a range of practice areas from injury law to IP litigation.

Discussions in the LexBlogosphere on December 11, 2007 include these posts:

• Ho-ho-ho…contractor hired to audit the naughty – New Jersey attorney Helen Oscislawski of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s HIPAA Health Law Blog
• Social security changes – Silver Spring lawyer Dory Sutker of Greenberg & Bederman in the firm’s Maryland Injury & Disability Law Blog
• SEC targets securities fraud with help from FBI – Minneapolis attorney Chris Grgurich of Lindquist & Vennum in the firm’s Over Reg’d: Corporate Securities Regulation & Litigation Resource Blog
• Bribing the judge to be considered as a factor in awarding equitable distribution – New York attorney Daniel E. Clement in his blog, the New York Divorce Report
• Year end collections – does it help or hurt your marketing efforts? – Legal marketing specialist Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog
• Res judicata bars relitigation of 1938 Buras Levee District lease’s validity – New Orleans attorney Cheryl Kornick of Liskow & Lewis in the firm’s Energy Law Blog
• Sexual harassment: settlement in the Knicks case – Somerville lawyer Frank Steinberg in his New Jersey Employment Law Blog
• Judge Dow joins the Northern District Bench – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• Water bottle blues – Food safety blogger Gerald Pugliese in Dr. Joel Fuhrman’s blog, Disease Proof
• Forensic evidence: blood splatter analysis admitted – Texas lawyer Cliff Hutchinson of Hughes & Luce in his blog, Science Evidence