Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/7/08

Our blogging clients have already gotten a head start on the week: by the time I logged on and checked my RSS feeds this morning, there were already nearly 50 new posts published on this Monday morning.

• SEC to provide better monitoring of insider trading in 2008 – Seattle attorney Joseph M. Wallin at Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Corporate Finance Law Blog
• The three rules of the tripartite relationship – Massachusetts lawyer Stephen D. Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• Supreme Court preview: Baze v. Rees: what is and is not at stake in the lethal injection litigation – Fordham University School of Law professor Alison J. Nathan, guest blogging for the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• University of Arkansas has sovereign immunity from copyright infringement lawsuit – Little Rock attorney Kevin Lemley at the Allen Law Firm in their Arkansas Business Litigation Blog
• Contractors now required to prepare a Code of Business Ethics and Conduct and to implement internal controls and ethics training – Pennsylvania lawyer Michael Payne of Payne Hackenbracht & Sullivan in the firm’s Federal Construction Contracting Blog
• Reductions in Force (RIF) are back; are employment lawsuits (and MySpace pages about layoffs) close behind in 2008? – Stamford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Epstein Becker & Green in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Get thee to the Commercial Division! – New York lawyer Peter A. Mahler at Farrell Fritz in his New York Business Divorce Blog
• New podcast offers free business development advice – Legal marketing specialist Larry Bodine in his Law Marketing Blog
• Scruggs Nation, Day 41 – Portland attorney David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog