Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/17/08

News today from around the LexBlogosphere touches on e-discovery issues, legal marketing, employment law and more.

• Studies continue regarding quality of care in nursing homes – Spartanburg attorney Ray Mullman of Poliakoff & Associates in the firm’s South Carolina Nursing Home Blog
• Current listing of states that have enacted e-discovery rules – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at K & L Gates in the firm’s Electronic Discovery Law Blog
• A new DNA-based diagnostic test to predict prostate cancer – Management consultant Cliff Mintz of BioInsights Inc. in his Bio Job Blog
• NLRB allows employers to prohibit all employee non-job-related e-mail solicitations, even if for union purposes – Sacramento attorney Christopher Onstott of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Law Blog
• Additional hurdles for slip and fall plaintiffs – Matt Fankhauser of Strong & Hanni in the firm’s Utah Insurance Law Blog
• When it comes to web searches, we’re incompetent and irritable: what’s an IP litigator to do? – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog
• Marketing for law firms – hiring a marketing person and a trend – Legal marketing specialist Tom Kane of Kane Consulting in his Legal Marketing Blog [readers also might want to check out yesterday’s LexBlog Q & A with Tom]
•  Ex-football coach removes lawsuit to federal court, defends post-resignation conduct – Charleston lawyer Jeffrey Mehalic in his West Virginia Business Litigation Blog
• The hidden costs of “independent contractors” – Ohio attorney Brian Hall of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur
• Favorite examples of guerilla marketing – Legal marketing specialist Larry Bodine in his Law Marketing Blog

Also worth noting: The Privacy Law Blog, produced by the blogging lawyers & attorneys at Proskauer Rose, has been selected by the Library of Congress to appear in their historic collection of Internet materials. From Christopher Wolf, a partner in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office:

This is yet another recognition of the significance of our blog, and kudos to everyone participating in it.

Ditto. Congratulations to Chris and the rest of the firm’s blogging attorneys for their inclusion in this historic recognition.