Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/3/08

We may be moving further and further away from New Year’s Day, but the year-end wrap up posts continue. Today’s update highlights a mix of posts, some looking back and others looking forward.

The highlights for January 3, 2008 include these prime selections:

• Oral declarations no longer satisfactory as evidence of citizenship and identity – Pennsylvania lawyer Michael Cassidy at Tucker Arensberg in the firm’s Med Law Blog
• New nano-environmental conference announcement: Nanogovernance 2008 – Washington, D.C. lawyer John C. Monica of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Report
• Medical malpractice – West Virginia justice dissents – New Hampshire attorney David Austin of Burke & Eisner in the firm’s Cerebral Palsy Law Blog
• Where do the presidential candidates stand on employment law issues? – Stamford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Epstein Becker & Green in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Prudential Douglas Elliman Q4 2007 Manhattan market overview – New York real estate broker Douglas Heddings in his blog, True Gotham
• Unions seek power play in Washington State – New Jersey attorney Brian A. Caufield of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Employee Free Choice Act Blog
• Two for the price of one: an excellent District Court ruling worth reading, and more on the First Circuit’s decision in Gillis – Massachusetts lawyer Stephen D. Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• Steam, electricity and law firm management – Edge International’s Rob Millard in his blog, The Adventure of Strategy
• Listeria found in coffee-flavored milk at Whittier Farms – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Pritzker Ruohonen in the firm’s Food Poisoning Law Blog
• Patent litigation in Maryland: 2007 trends – Washington, D.C. attorney Brian Wm. Higgins of Blank Rome in his Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog