Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : December 1, 2009

Whenever I get an ATM receipt, I tear it up and throw it in the nearest garbage can. On the off chance someone were actually scouring garbage cans for receipts, and provided they had any potentially harmful information on them, my tactic would probably have little effect. In the business world, the equivalent for some companies is to ship sensitive documents to third-party vendors who shred them. As Nick Beermann notes, their tactics may be just as useless because of what these companies are doing with the shredded remains.

• Is Shredding Enough? – Seattle lawyer Nick Beermann of Jackson Lewis on the firm’s Workplace Privacy, Data Management & Security Report
• Court Upholds $1.9 Million Dollar Verdict In Gender Discrimination Case Against Wal-Mart – Ohio and Arizona attorney Ellen Simon on her blog, Employee Rights Post
• 10 Facts from the IRS – Extended First-Time Homebuyer Credit – New Jersey lawyer Deirdre Wheatley-Liss of Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard on her New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog
• Fairness In Allocating Greenhouse Gas Allowances: A Difficult Balancing Act – Des Moines attorney Chuck Becker of Belin Lamson McCormick Zumbach Flynn on Becker’s Iowa Environmental Law Update
• Rights of the Minority Shareholders in Small Corporation! Can you Safely Fire a Minority Shareholder – Employee? – Minneapolis lawyer Gavin Craig on his Twin Cities Business Litigation Blog
• When Troubles Come – They Come In Battalions – Boise attorney Chuck Peterson on Peterson Law Offices’ Idaho Criminal Defense Blog
• 9th Circuit: Independent Contractor Can Assert Disability Claim Under Rehabilitation Act – Portland lawyer Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s World of Work Blog
• E-mail Supervision Failures Lead To $1.2 Million FINRA Fine – Minneapolis attorney Chris Grgurich of Lindquist & Vennum in the firm’s OverReg’d Corporate Securities Regulation & Litigation Blog
• Black Friday Shopping and Your Safety – The blogging lawyers at Greenberg & Bederman on their blog, Maryland Injury and Disability Law
• U.S. EPA to Impose Numeric Discharge Limits at Construction Sites – Cleveland attorney Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog