Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : January 11, 2012

When I prepped the front page of LXBN this morning, I knew it was going to be a good day on the Network. Over there, we have a roundtable as bloggers respond to Barack Obama’s recess appointments. And here in the roundup we have Russell Jackson with a great post forecasting the world of class action and mass torts in 2012, along with the first post on the LexBlog Network from former Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 159.

• Attorney General and Public Defenders Team Up to Support Double Standards for Poor People – McDonough lawyer Scott Key on his Georgia Criminal Appellate Law Blog
• Wal-Mart Ordered to Pay $187.6 Million Over Employee Handbook – Arden Hills lawyer Tiffany Schmidt of Abrams & Schmidt on their Minnesota Labor & Employment Law Blog
• Can Data Breaches Save the World? – Boston attorney John Lacey of The McCormack Firm at his Massachusetts Data Privacy Law Blog
• BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court Supports Fairly Broad “Ministerial Exception” to Anti-Discrimination Laws – Hartford attorney Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Tim Cook, $378 Million Dollar Man: Is he worth it? – Washington, D.C. lawyer Steven Berk of BerkLaw on the firm’s blog The Corporate Observer
• State Attorneys General: Key Players in 2012 – Atlanta lawyer Thurbert Baker of McKenna Long & Aldridge
• 2012 Predictions for Consumer Class Actions and Mass Torts – New York attorney Russell Jackson on his blog Consumer Class Actions & Mass Torts
• What Does Your Company Worry About At Night? – Boulder lawyer Ted Laszlo of LaszloLaw on the firm’s blog, the Product Liability Insider
• Supreme Court Sets The Tone For 2012 Term: Might Makes Right – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm on his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Tips for Attorneys: direct exam of a treating physician – Seattle attorney Karen Koehler on her blog, The Velvet Hammer

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