Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/28/07

Today is Friday, but the content continues to flow in the LexBlogosphere: it’s just after noon, but dozens of blogging lawyers and attorneys have updated with entries covering a wide range of content.

The posts worth highlighting today, December 28 2007, include:

• Social Security disability abuse – Maryland attorney Dory Sutker of Greenberg & Bederman in the firm’s Maryland Injury & Disability Law Blog
• Bio-excretion of smaller quantum dots – Washington, D.C. lawyer John C. Monica of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Report
• New rule 5.2 formalizes privacy protections for e-filed documents – Milwaukee attorney Joe Wilson of Quarles & Brady in the firm’s blog, E-Discovery Bytes
• ERISA preempts another one: striking down the San Francisco ordinance – Massachusetts lawyer Stephen D. Rosenberg if The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• Make the DMZ an international peace park? More hope for the new year – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• Medicare provides new definition of physical therapist assistant – Pennsylvania lawyer Michael Cassidy of Tucker Arensberg in the firm’s Med Law Blog
• Medicaid reimbursement rule is now final – Pennsylvania attorney Karl A. Romberger, Jr. of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Education Law Blog
• Acts constituting a refusal – Red Bank lawyer Travis A. Tormey from the law office of John Marshall in their New Jersey Criminal Defense & DWI Blog
• PKF Texas: The Entrepreneur’s Playbook: flex initiatives – PKF Texas director Greg Price in his blog, From Greg’s Head
• ERC launches plan to make gas markets transparent, monitor price information – New Orleans attorney Lawrence J. Hand, Jr. of Kean Miller in the firm’s Louisiana Law Blog
• A look at the Trademark Dilution Revision Act of 2006 – Illinois lawyer R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog