Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 3/2/09

Wow, it’s March. For me, that means the end of ski season and the rapid approach of graduation. For the LexBlogosphere, it means a gradual shift in the legal news cycle. It feels like this is the first  time in a while we don’t have a post on the stimulus package.

• Welcome to the Nut House” Might Become “Welcome to the Big House” – Seattle lawyer Bill Marler of Marler Clark in his Marler Blog
• Increased compliance after posting inspection results – Kansas State University student Katie Filion on Dr. Doug Powell’s BarfBlog
• Defense Invokes Roe v. Wade in Birth Injury Case – New Hampshire attorney David Austin of Burke & Eisner in the firm’s Cerebral Palsy Law Blog
• Unemployed Lawyers, Solo Practice University, the Last Time the Baby Boom Was Poor, and the Gig Economy – Lawyer-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• First Circuit Clarifies CAFA Removal Standards – New York attorney Russell Jackson of Skadden on his blog, Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts
• Appellate Court Orders Retrial In Nursing Home Negligence Case With $29.8M In Punitive Damages – Illinois lawyer Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in the firm’s Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Blog
• 16 Years After the Whitehurst Revelations, Forensic Science Still Tainted – Marshall Chriswell of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense & Education Fund in their Whistleblower Protection Blog
• There must be millions of NDAs out there, so go figure… – Boston attorney Dave Broadwin of Foley Hoag on the firm’s Emerging Enterprise Center Blog
• Can A Trial Lawyer Use Magic Tricks in Their Closing Argument? (Should They?) – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Why ABCs Aren’t Popular Alternatives to Bankruptcy in Ohio – Columbus attorney Teri Rasmussen of Plunkett Cooney in her Ohio Practical Business Law Blog