Best in Law Blogs : LexBlog Network : August 3, 2010

It’s seems like almost everyday a new legal issue associated with social media arises. Sometimes it’s a poor attempt at riling people up while other times there’s some legitimacy to the claims. Today, Robin Hensley examines an issue the legal profession may be forced to examine in the near future: whether or not a law firm can lay claim to an attorney’s LinkedIn connections when they leave the firm. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 122.

• There Really is No Excuse for This: Practices that Foster Dis-Engagement – Mike Cook of AMJ Group on their blog, The Heart of Engagement
• Workplace Violence: Are There Really Any “Lessons” to be Learned From Evil? – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• GSA Pushes For Reforms to Green Bulding Certification – LEED AP Chris Cheatham of Cheaham Consulting on his blog, Green Building Law Update
• WIll A Law Firm Missing a Deadline Fail to Stop the Execution of Alabama Death Row’s Cory R. Maples? – Criminal law lawyer Terry Lenamon blog on his blog, Terry Lenamon on the Death Penalty
  
• How Do You Begin a Presentation to a Skeptical Audience? – Law firm consultant Cordell Parvin on his Law Consulting Blog
• Robin, who owns my LinkedIn connections if I leave my firm? – Business development coach Robin Hensley on her Raising the Bar Blog
• Local Politicians are Criticizing the High Costs of Interpreters – McDonough lawyer Scott Key on his Georgia Criminal Appellate Law Blog
• Can You Sue the FDIC for Wrongful Contract Repudiation – Chicago attorney Joshua Glazov on his blog, Construction Law Today
• Eliminating the Risks of Separation for the “Un-Divorced” – New York lawyer Daniel Clement at his blog, the New York Divorce Report
• Court of Chancery Rejects Challenge to Interim Fee Award – Wilmington attorney Francis G.X. Pileggi of Fox Rothschild in his Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blo

LexBlog Network Highlights

• Above the Law recently quoted Connecticut employment lawyer Dan Schwartz of Connecticut Employment Law Blog in their post A Website That Laid-Off Associates Might Like To Know About.
• The Wall Street Journal mentioned Portland, OR insurance attorney David Rossmiller‘s muckracking on the Hood-trial bar insurance litigation in their post Mississippi Justice on Email.