Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/2/08

Lots of good stuff today. Max Kennerly has an interesting post on Apple’s lack of a document retention policy and John Schaak’s legal take on Barack Obama giving up his Blackberry is also a good read.

• Now is the Time for Creative Billing to Gain More Clients – Legal marketing specialist Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog
• IRS Adjusts Standard Mileage Rate for 2009 to 55 cents – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Negotiating Women: Never Negotiate Out of Fear, But Never Fear to Negotiate – Lawyer-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• Obama To Give Up His Blackberry. Should You? – Milwaukee attorney John Schaak of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s blog, E-Discovery Bytes
• Washington Supreme Court Upholds Wind Energy Project – Hartford lawyer Brad N. Mondschein of Pullman & Comley on his Green Energy & Development Law Blog
• Accounting for the Financial Impacts of Climate Change: ASTM Steps Into the Breach – Boston attorney Seth Jaffe of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Law & The Environment
• Does A Company Have To Have A Document Retention Policy? Apple Doesn’t Have One. – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Solos, Leverage and Diversify Thyself; Biglaw, Take Heed! – Washington, D.C. attorney Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle
• The End of Lawyers? Rethinking the Nature of Legal Services – Self-help law specialist Richard Granat on his blog, Law That You Can Afford
• How Prepackaged Bankruptcy REALLY Works – Columbus lawyer Teri Rasmussen of Lane Alton & Horst in her Ohio Practical Business Law Blog