Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 3/16/09

Twitter has grown to the point where it’s far past being just trendy. Every day there’s something new. Today, we have a post on a story that’s been floating around the legal blogosphere; Max Kennerly comments on how a tweeting juror may have caused a mistrial.

• Getting TIFFed Off: The Dangers of Not Going Native with ESI . . . Or, The Perils of Killing the Bunny – Phoenix attorney Wendy Akbar of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s E-Discovery Bytes
• U.S. DOL Further Defines What Constitutes Compensable Training Time – Cleveland lawyer Bradley Sherman of Littler Mendelson on the firm’s blog, Wage & Hour Counsel
• Court Imposes Sanctions on Plaintiff and Counsel, Orders Plaintiff to Provide Access to Database and for Attorney and his Law Firm to Pay Defendant’s Costs, Fees, and Expenses – David Bowerman of K&L Gates on the firm’s Electronic Discovery Law blog
• 9th Circuit Certifies Economic Loss Doctrine Issues to Washington Supreme Court – Seattle attorney John Parnass of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Washington Construction Law Blog
• Employment Discrimination Litigation will Increase in 2009 and Beyond – Lancaster lawyer Michael Moore of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog
• Does The Fumo Juror’s Twittering Warrant A Mistrial? – Philadelphia attorney Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Equality of Pay in Recessionary Times – Frances Green of EpsteinBeckerGreen on the firm’s Executive Women’s Networking Blog
• AIG Proposes to Pay the Guilty Hundreds of Millions in Bonuses! CEO Claims he Has a Contractual Obligation to Pay! – Minneapolis lawyer Gavin Craig on his Twin Cities Business Litigation Blog
• DNA Evidence is Only as Reliable as the People and Methods Used to Examine It – Florida attorney Ron Chapman in his Palm Beach Criminal Defense Blog
• Meet the Newest Frontier in Debt Collecting: The Dead – Toronto lawyer Megan Connolly of Hull & Hull on the firm’s Toronto Estate Law Blog