Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 12/18/08

As mentioned in yesterday’s LexBlogosphere roundup, I am on my way from Missoula, Montana to Chattanooga, Tennessee for the FCS Championship Game. Today’s best posts, gathered from a WiFi hotspot in a city outside St. Louis, include the onset of carbon reporting in Massachusetts and California and the similarities between the newspaper and legal industries.

• Department of Labor Issues New FMLA Poster and Forms For Employer Use – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Sheppard Mullin on the firm’s Labor Employment Law Blog
• Get Ready for Carbon Reporting in 2 weeks! – Boston lawyer Amy Boyd of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Law & The Environment
• Looking for a New Practice Area…Just Pick Up the Newspaper – Washington, D.C. attorney Carolyn Elefant at her blog, My Shingle
• Possible Settlement Announced In Wachovia-Wells Fargo Merger Litigation – Greensboro lawyer Mack Sperling of Brooks Pierce in his blog, the North Carolina Business Litigation Report
• Is E-Discovery Eliminating the Benefits of Arbitration? – Milwaukee attorney Elizabeth Chamberlin of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s E-Discovery Bytes
• Newspapers …. and the Law. Any Parallels? – Chicago lawyer Patrick J. Lamb of Valorem Law Group at his blog, In Search of Perfect Client Service
• More Reasons to Crank Up That Marketing – Legal marketing expert Tom Kane at his Legal Marketing Blog
• Revisions to NJ Domestic Violence Handbook – New Jersey attorney John Marshall on his New Jersey Criminal Defense and DWI Blog
• Preparing for the Next Snow Storm: How to Address Those Afternoon/Rush-Hour Messes – Hartford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Bullies in the Workplace – West Des Moines attorney Liz Overton of Sulivan & Ward on the firm’s Iowa Law Blog