Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : May 11, 2011

What’s really the benefit of producing an “App”? For so many companies and the lackluster products they produce, the “Hey, look who has an app!” stories seem to generate more buzz than the actual application itself. It remains to be seen if the Department of Labor’s wage and hour tracking app, which we mentioned yesterday, will prove to be useful but at this point it’s certainly getting a lot of coverage. Today, Jennifer Gokenbach examines the app’s potentially positive effects for employers. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 158.

• School Administrator’s Sexually Explicit Craigslist Ad Costs Him His Job – San Diego lawyer Frances Rogers of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore on the firm’s California Public Agency Labor and Employment Blog
• New York’s Highest Court Reverses Summary Judgment Based on Burden of Proof – New York attorney Russell Jackson on his blog Consumer Class Actions & Mass Torts
• The Biggest Winner in Latest Round of High-Speed Rail Grants – Northeast Corridor – Washington, DC lawyer Kevin M. Sheys of Nossaman on the firm’s blog, Infra Insight
• The Raj Guilty Verdict – What Took So Long? – Philadelphia attorney Amy Greer of Reed Smith on the firm’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
• The Role of Health Insurance Exchanges in Reforming Health Care Payment and Delivery Systems – Kansas lawyer Martie Ross of Spencer Fane Britt & Browne on the firm’s blog, Health Law Navigator
• Can Counterclaims Be Removed Under the Class Action Fairness Act? Ninth Circuit Says No – Hartford, CT attorney Wystan Ackerman of Robinson & Cole on the firm’s Insurance Class Actions Insider
• Industry Color Clusters – Minneapolis lawyer Susan Perera of Winthrop Weinstine on the firm’s DuetsBlog
• Applying the Child Support Formula in Shared Parenting Arrangements – NY attorney Neil Cahn on his blog, Divorce: New York
• There’s An App For That! The Bright Side of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Launch of iPhone App to Track Wages – Denver lawyer Jennifer Gokenbach of Ogletree Deakins on her blog, the California Employer’s Law Blog 
• UK Issues Guidance on Obtaining Consent for the Use of Cookies – London attorney Quentin Archer of Hogan Lovells on the firm’s blog, Chronicle of Data Protection