Top 10 in Law Blogs: May 7, 2013

Earlier this year, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals dealt the NLRB quite the blow when it struck down President Obama’s recess appointments to the board. The court handed out more tough love as it today invalidated the NLRB’s rule requiring applicable private-sector employers display a poster informing employees of their labor rights. We have a couple posts on the story in the roundup today and more on our LXBN section dedicated to the NLRB posting rule.

• Tribal Pay Day Loans Increasing – And Being Watched – Seattle attorney Greg Guedel of Foster Pepper on the firm’s Native American Legal Update
• What’s Wrong With This Process? Why Are So Few Lawyers Willing to Assess How They’re Delivering Legal Services? – Senior Consultant Carla Landry of LawVision Group on their blog, LawVision Insights
• Are Women’s Initiatives Meant To Fail? – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon in her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• GC Focus – an LMA Annual Conference Recap – Legal marketing expert Lindsay Griffiths of International Lawyers Network on Zen & The Art of Legal Networking
• Michigan Supreme Court Rejects Heightened Standard in Whistleblower Protection Claims – West Bloomfield lawyer Jason Shinn of Shinn Legal on his Michigan Employment Law Advisor
• D.C. Circuit Vacates NLRB Posting Rule – Enforcement Provisions Violated NLRA and Posting Requirement Could Not Be Severed – Washington, DC lawyer Lee Beck on his blog, the Federal Regulations Advisor
• D.C. Circuit Vacates NLRB’s Notice Posting Rule – Atlanta attorney Brennan Bolt of McKenna Long & Aldridge on the firm’s blog, Labor Relations Today
• Do Your Clients Know, Like and Trust You? – Business development coach Robin Hensley on her Raising the Bar Blog
• Who Decides Who Visits a Hospital Patient? – Albany lawyer Laurie Chisolm of Iseman, Cunningham, Riester & Hyde on the firm’s blog, Healthcare Integration Advisors 
• California Cities and Counties Can “Just Say No” to Medical Marijuana Dispensaries – San Francisco attorney Alan Murphy of Perkins Coie on the firm’s California Land Use & Development Law Report

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