Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/5/09

It’s Cinco de Mayo and while there’s a lot of great stories from the legal world, the biggest one in the mind of this LexBlog employee is Brett Favre potentially playing for the Vikings next season. Really Brett, really? He already had no fans outside of Packer diehards, now he really doesn’t have any at all. Here’s to BJ Raji delivering a blow that ends his consecutive starts streak. Anyway, here are the best posts from the LexBlogsosphere.

• Can the Jones Act help offshore workers who have been exposed to asbestos? – Texas attorney Brian Beckcom of Vujasinovic & Beckcom in the firm’s Maritime Injury Lawyer Blog
• Lawyers will still be needed in the “new economy” – Legal marketing expert Ed Poll in his LawBizBlog
• Florida Legislature Seeks An End To Nation’s Last Alien Land Law – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Brigham Moore in the firm’s Florida Eminent Domain Law Blog
• Negotiation 101: Putting “No” into a “Yes Sandwich” – Lawyer-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• 10 Questions to Help You Find Your Passion – Dallas attorney Cordell Parvin on his Law Consulting Blog
• Commercial Landlords Beware: Questions To Ask Before Removing, Disposing or Returning Property Left By Tenants – Lawrenceville lawyer Thomas S. Onder of Stark & Stark in the firm’s New Jersey Law Blog
• U.S. Supreme Court Reverses Immigrant Employee’s Sentence For Use of False Identification – Orange Park attorney David McCranie in his Florida Workers’ Compensation Law Blog
• Chrysler Bankruptcy Analysis – Part III: Will The “Absolute Priority Rule” Kill The Sale? – Chicago lawyer Steve Jakubowski of The Coleman Law Firm on the The Bankruptcy Law Blog
• Court Bars Identity-Theft Law as Tool in Immigration Cases – Texas attorney Robert A. Kraft in his Immigration Law Answers Blog
• DOE Announces Up to $13 Million in Funding for Advanced Combustion and Emissions Controls R&D – Hartford lawyer Brad N. Mondschein of Pullman & Comley on his Green Energy & Development Law Blog