New blogs joining The LexBlog Network for the week of 2/28-3/4

On a dark and damp evening in Seattle, we have six new publications joining The LexBlog Network. While some familiar parties launch new publications—Foster Pepper, K&L Gates, Latham & Watkins, Kelley Drye—we also have some great new perspectives from Boston lawyer John Lacey and rainmaking expert Mark Maraia. Oh, and there’s a redesign and website launch for one of The LexBlog Network’s most senior authors as well. Have a great weekend everyone.

• Washington Workplace Law, the fourth publication on The LexBlog Network from Foster Pepper, discusses issues affecting both private and public employees. Seattle attorney Janelle Milodragovich serves as Editor while six other lawyers from the firm’s Employment and Labor Relations Practice Group also contribute.
• Latham & Watkins keeps their blogging movement rolling with the launch of their Clean Energy Law Report. With quite the team of editors and contributors, you can expect a breadth of coverage on energy regulations, tax law in the energy industry and financing energy projects, amongst other things. This is the firm’s third blog on The LexBlog Network.
• Attorneys Todd Fisher and Chad King serve as editors on K&L Gates‘ Legal Cloud Central Blog. As a number of companies take their data and, along with that, their customers’ personal information to the cloud, it will be interesting to track how data privacy and security law keeps up. This will be a good blog to follow if you’re looking to find out.
• For those of you who don’t know, hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) is the process used in stimulating oil and gas wells. With that in mind, you can expect attorneys at Kelley Drye to offer insight into federal policy and regulatory developments on the subject from their blog, the Hydraulic Fracturing Insider.
• Where many data privacy and security law blogs are authored by attorneys at larger law firms who have spent most of their career in that field as lawyers, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Law Blog presents an excellent new perspective. Author John Lacey of The McCormack Firm is a former Suffolk County District attorney who worked extensively prosecuting criminal cases involving data theft.
• Maraia’s Rainmaking Blog is brought to The LexBlog Network from client development and relationship-building coach Mark Maraia. Similar to the advice he gives to the lawyers and law firms he works with, you can expect the guidance and insight on this publication to be specific, practical and actionable.

Also worth noting: This week brings the re-launch of the Frank Steinberg‘s New Jersey Employment Law Blog. First launched way back 2006, the blog not only sees a new look this week, but we were also able to give Steinberg Law, LLC‘s website new coat of paint as well.