Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : October 12, 2011

Though it isn’t much of a surprise, the biggest legal story of the day is that Obama’s plan to ‘get America back to work’ took a bit of a hit last night as the American Jobs Act failed to garner the 60 Senate votes needed to proceed with further consideration. Ilyse Schuman and Jeffrey Mullan offer up their commentary in two of the stories below. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 154.

• Rhyme or Reason? Trying to Make Sense of the NLRB’s Social Media Cases – Boston lawyer Scott Faust of Proskauer on the firm’s Labor Relations Update
• A Bump in The Road Toward Getting America Back To Work – Boston attorney Jeffrey Mullan of Foley Hoag on the firm’s blog, Law & The Environment
• Senate Votes Against Advancing Jobs Bill – Washington, DC lawyer Ilyse Schuman of Littler on the firm’s blog, Washington, DC Employment Law Update
• Legal Issues Surrounding Social Media Background Checks – Los Angeles attorney Michelle Sherman of Sheppard Mullin on the firm’s Labor Employment Law Blog
• Look Around…The FTC Is Really Busy – Chicago lawyer Jamie Rubin on the InformationLawGroup blog
• E-Discovery: Cutting Costs with Predictive Coding – Chicago attorney Steven Hunter of Quarles & Brady on the firm’s blog, E-Discovery Bytes
• Freedom of Speech in the Workplace – Toronto lawyer Lisa Stam on her blog, Employment & Human Rights Law in Canada
• Inventions of Steve Jobs Define Us – Buffalo attorney Vincent LoTempio on his LoTempio Law Blog
• Can An Employer Ask a Job Applicant … The Nuts & Bolts of Legal Preemployment Inquiries – West Bloomfield lawyer Jason Shinn of E-Business Counsel on his blog, Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• Can Foreclosure Be Erased Because Mortgagee Doesn’t Hold The Note? – Boston attorney Gordon Orloff of Rackemann, Sawyer & Brewster on the firm’s Massachusetts Land Use Monitor