Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/17/08

Lots of discussion as we move into the second half of the week, with the legal bloggers featured below highlighting issues from blood transfusions to text message privacy to closed captioning at Seattle’s own Paramount Theater.

• New pension investment disclosure rules a reality – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance LLC at her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• Dangers with blood transfusions – Illinois attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in the firm’s Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Blog
• Guest post: using LifeJournal in divorce and child custody cases – Ruth Folit, president of Chronicles Software, guest blogging at J. Benjamin Stevens’ South Carolina Family Law Blog
• New Hampshire’s Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act – Manchester lawyer Kysa Crusco in her New Hampshire Family Law Blog
• Good news update on Paramount Theater captioning – Bainbridge Island attorney John Waldo in his Hearing Loss Law & Wash-CAP Blog
• Teacher pay and tenure: creating a free agent market? – Pennsylvania lawyer Karl Romberger of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Education Law Blog
• Search of employee text messages held to violate Fourth Amendment – Shannon Going and Vanessa Whang of Carlton DiSante & Freudenberger in the firm’s California Labor & Employment Law Blog
• Louisiana chosen to participate in Electronic Health Records Medicare Demonstration Project – Baton Rouge attorney Valerie A. Judice of Kean Miller in the firm’s Louisiana Law Blog
• “No money, no treatment” – hospitals requiring upfront payments – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Regan Zambri & Long in the firm’s DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog
• Five successful law firm marketing strategies to attract first-rate prospects – Small business coach Stephen Fairley of The Rainmaker Institute in The Rainmaker Blog