Live LexBlog blogs for the week of 12/1-12/5

Five launches in total this week. There’s three labor-related blogs, a great-looking green building law blog and an interesting blog focusing on how lawyers can use Macs to better their law practice. Take a look.

• The Illinois Workers Compensation Blog—covering topics that include benefits, repetitive trauma and tips for injury victims—is published by Chicago lawyer Michael Helfland.
• With insight and commentary on a wide range of labor and employment issues, the Alabama Employment Law Report is written by Daniel Burnick of Sirote & Permutt.
• The second green building blog done by LexBlog, Green Building Law, is published by Philadlphia attorney Shari Shapiro of Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel. 
• The Mac Lawyer, J. Benjamin Stevens, covers hardware, software, OS X, the iPhone, switching to a Mac and other relevant topics on his second blog with LexBlog.
• Written by attorneys Maria Greco Danaher and Marla Presley at AmLaw 200 firm Ogletree Deakins, Employment Law Matters is intended to update, inform and explain current employment and labor-related issues.