Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/17/07

Hot on the heels of our Sunday update, today we start off the week with a fresh batch of legal news.

Some of the posts we’re highlighting for December 17, 2007 include the following:

• Does divorce impact the environment? – Birmingham attorney Steven D. Eversole in his Alabama Divorce & Family Law Attorney Blog
• The road not studied – Sacramento lawyer Joel Ellinwood of Abbott & Kidermann in the firm’s Land Use Law Blog
• Glaxo falters again – Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog
• Appeals court unsettles $18 million agreement between freelancers and publishers – Seattle attorney Hozaifa Cassubhai of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Privacy and Security Law Blog
• Does Seagate signal the end of bifurcated patent trials, and caution against procuring opinions of counsel? – Washington, D.C. lawyer Brian Wm. Higgins of Blank Rome in his Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog
• AARP Homeowner Survey – reverse mortgage – Massachusetts attorney John Gosselin of Gosselin & Associates in the firm’s Law For Life Blog
• Eighth Circuit refuses to enforce Arkansas noncompete agreement – Little Rock lawyer Kevin Lemley of the Allen Law Firm in their Arkansas Business Litigation Blog
• Joke of the day: UGA professor David Hazinski proposes “certification” of “citizen journalists” – Atlanta attorney Scott Riddle in his Georgia Bankruptcy Law Blog
• Again, cancel your Yellow Pages ad – Legal marketing specialist Larry Bodine in his Law Marketing Blog
• 2007 letter to pension Santa – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance in her blog, Pension Risk Matters