Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/12/07

Another mid-week update today, featuring posts from around the country…and one from a French lawyer working in Proskauer Rose’s Paris office.

Today is December 12, 2007, and some of the posts in the LexBlogosphere this afternoon include the following:

• Settle It Now joins the Forbes.com Business and Finance Network – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• Texas Breach of Fiduciary Duty law: mere silence can constitute breach – Dallas lawyer Robert Wood of Hughes & Luce in the firm’s Texas Non-Compete Law Blog
• Cost to restore inaccessible backup tapes exceeds possible yield of relevant information – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at K & L Gates in the firm’s Electronic Discovery Law Blog
• Ninth Circuit finds insured’s claim for diminution in the sale value of contaminated properties not covered under CGL policy – Portland attorney Diane Polscer at the National Insurance Law Forum
• Medicare liens: can personal injury lawyers do anything about them? – Maryland lawyer Ron Miller at the Trial Law Resource Center
• Hillary Clinton weighs in on Social Security backlog – Greensboro attorney Joel Davis of The Deuterman Law Group in the firm’s North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Focus on the EU and France – can U.S. employers collect sensitive data about their employees residing in the EU? – Paris lawyer Cecile Martin of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s Privacy Law Blog
• Talkin’ with Tom Gies, counsel for the respondents in LaRue – Massachusetts attorney Stephen D. Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• Liability for failure to trim bushes and trees – Tennessee lawyer John Day of Day & Blair in his blog, Day on Torts
• Additional quality of care concerns – Lara Pettiss Harrill at Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog