Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 2/27/08

Seattle, Chicago, Miami and more…today’s update brings together posts from these three cities – and a handful of others – in one place. Some are covering big news (i.e. the Microsoft fine), others are answering questions…but all are entering the discussion in one form or another.

• Do arbitration clauses really reduce time and expense? – Wilmington attorney Francis G.X. Pileggi of Fox Rothschild in his Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog
• Supreme Court amicus brief filed in support of FOIA requesters – Washington, D.C. lawyer David Colapinto of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund in their Whistleblower Protection Blog
• Fishermen are entitled to punitive damages from Exxon – Center for Progressive Reform scholars Alexandra Klass and Sandra Zellmer, guest blogging at the American Constitution Society’s ACS Blog
• Some state data encryption requirements more effective than others – Seattle attorney Randy Gainer of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Privacy and Security Law Blog
• Microsoft hit with $1.3 billion fine by EU regulators – Chicago lawyer Sam Conforti in his Software Licensing & Master Service Agreements Blog
• Can your business weather a possible recession? – PKF Texas director Greg Price in his blog, From Greg’s Head
• More on variable material – New York attorney Cailie Currin in her Life Insurance Compliance & Regulation Law Blog
• Complete planning: what happens if you don’t make it home tonight? – Arizona lawyer Stephen Follett in his Arizona Estate Planning & Probate Blog
• DOJ touts increase in counterfeiting prosecutions, stiff sentences – Miami attorney Leora Herrmann of Kluger Peretz Kaplan & Berlin in her Counterfeit Blog
• Probate and the history of women’s inheritance rights – Sarah Hyndman Fitzpatrick of Hull & Hull in the firm’s Toronto Estate Law Blog