Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 1/7/09

A lot of different topics covered in today’s best posts from LexBlog blogs. The best of the best include posts from the always-insightful Max Kennerly and an entry by Dennis Westlind on business groups suing to block E-Verify, the federal government’s Web-based system that uses Social Security files to ensure that employees are legal immigrants or citizens eligible to work in the United States.

• Nearly 400 Sickened, Many Hospitalized, with Salmonella Typhimurium Linked to Poultry, Eggs or Cheese – The blogging lawyers and attorneys at Marler Clark on the firm’s Salmonella Blog
• Blackwater Legal Malpractice Suit Dismissed – Chicago lawyer Cassandra Crotty of The Coleman Law Firm on their Illinois Legal Malpractice Blog
• An Ounce of Prevention: Dismissal Upheld In Derivative Suit Because of Independent Inquiry – Philadelphia attorney Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Walk the Line – Milwaukee lawyer Monika Harris of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s blog, E-Discovery Bytes
• Getting Out Ahead of the Curve on the Green Building Front: EPA Announces Voluntary Agreement With Cushman & Wakefield – Boston attorney Seth Jaffe of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Law & The Environment
• Polk City Sign Language: Freedom of Speech or Defamation? – West Des Moines lawyer Benjamin Clark of Sullivan & Ward on the firm’s Iowa Law Blog
• Forced Opportunities – Ridgefield, Connecticut attorney Angelo Tartaro on Rogers & Tartaro’s Business Litigation Blog
• Texas Medical Board Makes Progress in Reducing Application Processing Times – Austin lawyer Louis Leichter of Leichter Law Firm on their Texas Medical Licensing Law Blog
• Business Groups Sue to Block E-Verify Rule – Portland attorney Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s World of Work Blog
• Ohio Foreclosure Proceedings Roadmap – Part II: From Complaint to Sheriff’s Sale – Columbus lawyer Teri Rasmussen of Lane Alton & Horst in her Ohio Practical Business Law Blog