Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/2/08

Another post to ring in the new year, featuring some more of the earliest posts from 2008.

The highlights for January 2, 2008 include:

• The IP litigator’s Holy Grail: dismissal without leave to amend – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in the IP ADR Blog
• Sheppard Mullin wins major victory in challenge to 12-hour shift pay practices – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Sheppard Mullin in the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Blog
• California Supreme Court to issue decision on medical marijuana in the workplace – Sacramento lawyer Dafna G. Levi of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Law Blog
• What’s the matter with Farmer’s Branch…again? – Dallas attorney Angel Reyes of Heygood Orr Reyes & Bartolomei in his Angel Reyes Blog
• New foreclosure law now in effect – Colorado lawyer Loura K. Sanchez of HindmanSanchez in the firm’s blog, HOA Legi-Slate
• Fraud: a New York CPA expert invades the province of the jury – Dallas attorney Cliff Hutchinson of Hughes & Luce in his Science Evidence Blog
• C.J. Robert’s Report on the Federal Judiciary – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• How to keep divorce from having long lasting effects on children – Kansas City lawyer Mark A. Wortman in his Missouri Divorce & Family Law Blog
• DHS says infrastructure more vulnerable to cyber attacks; private businesses told to be vigilant – Washington, D.C. attorney Scott J. Carpenter of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s Privacy Law Blog
• The family law attorney’s secretary – Philadelphia lawyer Charles J. Meyer of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Pennsylvania Family Law Blog