Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/17/08

This will be the last LexBlogosphere post I make from Missoula this week. All others will be done during the 2,100 mile drive to Chattanooga, TN, where the Montana Grizzlies will be playing the Richmond Spiders for the FCS National Championship. If you’re interesting in following the trip, you can on Twitter, otherwise here are the best posts from the day so far.

• NFL Struggles To Improve Coaching Diversity, Issue Brief Says – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• The Ninety-Day Rule Strikes Again: Untimely Appeal Dismissed – Birmingham lawyer Nikaa Jordan of Lightfoot, Franklin & White on the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch
• e-Bleak House: Twitter “Tweets” Discoverable – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Announces Revised I-9 Form – Columbus lawyer Kyle Knapp of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur on the firm’s Employer Law Report
• Bill to Abolish MA Noncompetes Imminent – Boston attorney Michael Rosen of Foley Hoag on the firm’s Massachusetts Law Noncompete Law Blog
• Food safety suffering from funding cuts – Seattle lawyer Bill Marler of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog
• Reporter Invokes Fifth Amendment Privilege to Protect Confidential Source – Charles Coble of Brooks Pierce on the firm’s Newsroom Media Law Blog
• Blogging, The First Amendment and Legal Malpractice – Andrew Lavoott Bluestone on the New York Attorney Malpractice Blog
• Call Centers Relocate to the US – Dallas attorney Peter Vogel of Gardere Wynne Sewell on his Vogel Internet, Information Technology and e-Discovery Blog
• What to Watch in 2009: Carbon Credits Are a Hot “Commodity” – San Francisco lawyer Michèle Corash of Morrison Foerster on the American College of Environmental Lawyers blog