Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : July 19, 2010

This morning, the Washington Post published what some have called the publication’s most important piece of the year: a three-part investigation into into America’s post-9/11 intelligence community. On the LexBlog Network, Lindsey Williams examines the need for whistleblowers in this “Top Secret America.” Total posts on the Network today: 111.

• Ninth Circuit Applies New Hardt Decision to Deny ERISA Participant Attorney’s Fees – Los Angeles attorney Bob McKennon of McKennon Schindler on the firm’s California Insurance Litigation Blog
• Important Ohio EPA Updates on Brownfield Redevelopment – Cleveland lawyer Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog
• The Need for Whistleblowers in “Top Secret America” – Lindsey Williams of the National Whistleblower Center on their Whistleblowers Protection Blog
• Illinois Supreme Court Holds Transit System Has No Duty to Clear or Warn of Snow and Ice – Chicago attorney Kirk Jenkins of Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold on the firm’s blog, The Appellate Strategist
• Failure to Warn Claim Survives- But Why? – Philadelphia lawyer Sean Wajert of Dechert LLP at his Mass Tort Defense Blog
• Imposition of Minimum Wage Looms for California State Workers – Long Beach attorney Walter Haines of United Employees Law Group on the firm’s blog, The California Employee Advocate
• Opposing Views on the Estate Tax / Death Tax – New Jersey lawyer Deirdre Wheatley-Liss of Fein, Such, Kahn & Shepard on her New Jersey Estate Planning & Elder Law Blog
• Are You Being Overcharged On Your Mortgage? – LA attorney Christine Wilton on her blog, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Law Monitor
• Engagement Rings: What Happens When the Bride Is Already Married? – New York lawyer Daniel Clement at his blog, the New York Divorce Report
• Royal Caribbean Cruises Treats Rockland Maine Like a $1 Store – Miami attorney Jim Walker of Walker & O’Neill on his blog, Cruise Law News