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

Since news broke last week of a draft report from the EPA linking hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination, I’ve been very interested to see how the publications on the LexBlog Network covering fracking would respond. Today, Keith Hall chimes in on the Oil & Gas Law Brief. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 162.

• Significance of Test Results from Pavillion, Wyoming are Disputed – New Orleans attorney Keith Hall of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann on the firm’s Oil & Gas Law Brief
• House End of Year Package Would Cut Hospital Funding More than $17 billion – Karen S. Sealander and Erika Stocker of McDermott Will & Emery on the firm’s blog, Health Care Law Reform
• Financial Times Reports That SEC Has Written At Least Dozen Companies About Their Business Dealings in Countries Deemed “State Sponsors” of Terror – Washington, DC attorney William McGrath of Porter Wright on the firm’s Federal Securities Law Blog
• Louisiana Supreme Court Follows Wal-Mart v. Dukes to Reverse Certification of Nuisance Class Action – New York lawyer Russell Jackson on his blog Consumer Class Actions & Mass Torts
• Is Your Firm Rewarding or Punishing Practice Group/Office Leaders? – Dallas, Texas attorney coach Cordell Parvin on the Cordell Parvin Blog
• Steps To Home Ownership After Bankruptcy – LA attorney Christine Wilton on her blog, Los Angeles Bankruptcy Law Monitor
• Fifty Ways to Find Legal Work and Earn a Living as a Practicing Lawyer – West Des Moines attorney Steve Lombardi on his blog, The Iowa Edict
• Asking Departing Employees to Sign a “Legal Hold Waiver” is the Wrong Tool for Meeting E-Discovery Preservation Obligations – West Bloomfield lawyer Jason Shinn of E-Business Counsel on his blog, Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• Divorced Parents may be Liable to Provide Children with a Private College Education – NY lawyer Neil Cahn on his blog, Divorce: New York
• The Immigration Appeaser-in-Chief Should Try Some New Ammunition – Los Angeles attorney Angelo Paparelli of Seyfarth Shaw on his blog, Nation of Immigrators

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