Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 2/19/08

Before launching into the rest of our highlights for today, it’s worth noting that Wilmington attorney Francis G.X. Pileggi was cited yesterday in Stephen Bainbridge’s Business Associations Blog. The post Bainbridge featured was Francis’ Sunday update, Are Caremark duties of directors real? And that’s the only good news from the LexBlogosphere…

• Consumer product reform bill would protect whistleblowers – Marshall Chriswell of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund in their Whistleblower Protection Blog
• Patent reform is again before Washington legislators, as Congress continued to fail to reach a consensus on the legislation in 2007 – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Sheppard Mullin in the firm’s Intellectual Property Law Blog
• US Supreme Court tackles employment law cases this week – Los Angeles attorney Anthony Zaller of Van Vleck Turner & Zaller in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Defense Blog
• Reality takes a holiday on High Street – Portland lawyer David Rossmiller of Dunn Carney in the firm’s Insurance Coverage Law Blog
• Online game causes divorce – Mobile attorney Michael Sherman of Sherman & Jeffries in the firm’s Alabama Family Law Blog
• Waiver making you nevrous? Rule 502 purports to help – Wisconsin lawyer Josephine Benkers of Quarles & Brady in the firm’s E-Discovery Bytes Blog
• Texas Supreme Court again addresses royalty class actions – Houston attorney Robert Theriot of Liskow & Lewis in the firm’s Energy Law Blog
• Faxed notice of appeal not “filed”, not effective – Birmingham lawyer Craig Rosler of Lightfoot Franklin & White in the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch Blog
• Want to learn more about the tripartite relationship? – Massachusetts attorney Stephen Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Law Blog
• Obama – where is the beef? – Seattle lawyer Bill Marler of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog