Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/11/08

The end of the work week, and here in Seattle that brings the first sun we’ve seen in a long time. It also brings these posts:

• Recent case could make Ohio employers more vulnerable to defamation claims – Columbus, Ohio attorney Rob Stalter of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Employer Law Report
• Collecting prejudgment interest on debts – New Jersey lawyer William H. Brosha of Stark & Stark in the firm’s New Jersey Law Blog
• Batter up! Case note discusses interplay of CAFA and supplemental jurisdiction, asking who’s on first? – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at McGlinchey Stafford in the firm’s CAFA Law Blog
• Does following the rules matter? – Illinois attorney R. David Donoghue of DLA Piper in his Chicago IP Litigation Blog
• Microsoft e-discovery summits – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at K & L Gates in their Electronic Discovery Law Blog
• Planning gain taxes resurrected? – Business specialist Cathy Corns of Mercer & Hole in the English accounting firm’s SME Plus Blog
• Scruggs Nation, day 45: the reckoning – Portland lawyer David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Putting profits over care – Spartanburg attorney Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• Clash of the titans – Los Angeles lawyers Elizabeth Schilken and Olivier Theard of Sheppard Mullin in the firm’s Real Estate & Construction Law Blog
• Whistleblower’s ALA speech now being censored by the FBI – Marshall Chriswell of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense Fund in their Whistleblower Protection Blog