Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : June 24, 2011

Before I head off to a bizarro National League-rules game being played at Safeco Field, let’s look back at Friday’s best posts. We’ve seen a lot of dialogue lately on the environmental impact of hydraulic fracturing and it appears as though the EPA has taken notice—as Keith Hall notes that they’ve selected locations for conducting case studies on fracking’s effects on the surrounding environment. Have a great weekend, everyone.

• Public Employers May Place Criminally Charged Employees on Unpaid Administrative Leave – Arden Hills attorney Tiffany Schmidt of Abrams & Schmidt on their Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
• EPA Selects Locations for Seven Hydraulic Fracturing Case Studies – New Orleans attorney Keith Hall of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann on the firm’s Oil & Gas Law Brief
• If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it (and you can’t finance it!) – Philadelphia LEED AP Shari Shapiro on her Green Building Law Blog
• PART ONE: SEC and Employment Law Protect and Compensate Whistleblowers – Long Beach attorney Walter Haines of United Employees Law Group on the firm’s blog, The California Employee Advocate
• Mississippi — Unauthorized Transfer and Deed of Trust in LLC Property Is Void, Lender Loses Its Security – Seattle lawyer Doug Batey of Stoel Rives on the firm’s blog, LLC Law Monitor
• I’m a funeral director, not a fund manager! – Kansas attorney Bill Stalter on his Death Care Compliance Law blog
• LinkedIn – Making the Most out of Groups – Legal marketing expert Lindsay Griffiths of International Lawyers Network on Zen & The Art of Legal Networking
• Keeping Your Vehicle During Chapter 13 Bankruptcy – Dallas attorney Bryan Fears of Fears Nachawati on the firm’s Texas Bankruptcy Blog
• US Supreme Court’s Bombshell Opinion in Stern v. Marshall Draws the Line Against Incremental Erosion of Article III Judicial Power – Chicago attorney Steve Jakubowski of The Coleman Law Firm on the The Bankruptcy Litigation Blog
• Man Who Killed Wife Is Denied Her Life Insurance – Toronto attorney Megan Connolly of Connolly Law on her blog, Toronto Estates & Trusts Monitor