Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 4/22/08

Below you’ll find today’s sampling of the legal blog climate. From probate fights to fence-based debacles to the New York carriage industry, we’ve got a diverse wealth of posts to quench your thirst for legal news this Tuesday.

• Planning to avoid probate fights – Arizona attorney Stephen Follett in his Arizona Estate Planning & Probate Blog
• “Joint employers” of staffing agency employees liable for FMLA violations – San Francisco lawyer Alison Tsao of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Law Blog
• Good fences make good neighbors, but bad fences make appellate opinions – Sacramento attorney Janell M. Bogue of Abbott & Kindermann in the firm’s Land Use Law Blog
• Lawyers core competency – must we specialize or be incompetent? – Legal marketing specialist Ed Poll in his LawBiz Blog
• Interpretation of retirement for 4228 and employee benefit plans – New York lawyer Cailie Currin in her LIfe Insurance Compliance & Regulation Law Blog
• Should the carriage ride industry in New York City be banned? – Texas attorney Alison Rowe in her Equine Law Blog
• Texas property tax: another case involving an agreement between an owner’s agent and an appraisal district as to a property’s appraised value – Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Hot document: New Jersey Supreme Court rules Internet subscribers have privacy interest in anonymity – JD Supra’s Aviva Cuyler in their legal resource blog, JD Scoop
• Negotiate with your head, not your heart – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog