Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 4/21/08

Welcome back to the working week, with another group of legal news updates from around the country. From Fred Abrams on identity theft to Franck Wobst on the FMLA, the web is already alive with legal conversations.

• Fourth Circuit allows Massey lawsuit against WV Supreme Court to proceed – Charleston attorney Jeffrey Mehalic in his West Virginia Business Litigation Blog
• 50% shareholder may not sue other 50% shareholder in company’s name – New York lawyer Peter Mahler of Farrell Fritz in his New York Business Divorce Blog
• A tax fraud & identity theft from Miami – New York attorney Fred Abrams in his Asset Search Blog
• E-filing is serious business – Bakersfield lawyer Terrence T. Egland of Klein Denatale Goldner in the firm’s California Business Bankruptcy Blog
• On discovery problems and solutions – Massachusetts attorney Stephen Rosenberg of The McCormack Firm in his Boston ERISA & Insurance Litigation Blog
• FERC approves request related to West Coast renewable transmission project – San Francisco journalist Dennis Pfaff, writing for Thelen’s Climate Law Update
• Estate planning: what to live for – Massachusetts lawyer John Gosselin of Gosselin & Associates in the firm’s Law for Life Blog
• Claim that LLC made unlawful distributions was derivative, not direct – Greensboro attorney Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report
• FMLA update – are you posted? – Ohio lawyer Franck Wobst of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Employer Law Report
• Required mentoring for new lawyers – what do you think? – Washington, D.C. attorney Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle