Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/14/08

Unintentionally, the majority of posts selected for today’s update are from the West Coast…but not all of them: we’ve also got David McCranie representing Florida, Jeffrey Mehalic from West Virginia, and Eric McLennan in Colorado.

• Second DCA: employer not estopped from asserting “exclusive remedy” defense – Orange Park attorney David McCranie in his Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Arkansas teachers sue company directors for risk taking – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance at her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• IP ADR Blog selected as “top blog” for LexisNexis Copyright Law Center – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in the IP ADR Blog
• EU data protection watchdog supports breach notification law – Los Angeles lawyer Jeremy Mittman of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s Privacy Law Blog
• Chinese patent system: problems and best practices – Los Gatos attorney Kristie Prinz in her California Biotech Law Blog
• Is ESA rated “O” for over? – Seattle lawyer Kraig Baker of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Technology, eBusiness & Digital Media Law Blog
• Appellate court allows “on-duty” meal period class action to proceed – Los Angeles attorney Anthony Zaller of Van Vleck Turner & Zaller in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Defense Blog
• Study looks at foreclosures in Denver – Eric R. McLennan of HindmanSanchez in the firm’s blog, HOA Legi-Slate
• Federal government calls polar bear threatened but limits impact – San Francisco journalist Dennis Pfaff writing in Thelen’s Climate Law Update
• Court approves settlements, but refuses parties’ request for confidentiality – Charleston lawyer Jeffrey Mehalic in his West Virginia Business Litigation Blog