Top 10 in Law Blogs: Trademarking Emoticons, Medicare Lawsuit Tax, 2013 Securities Filings

As we head into the first full workweek of 2014, we have some very hot topics in the Top 10: there’s fracking, the Consumer Electronics Expo, NSA surveillance and immigration reform. In addition, Max Kennerly has an opinionated post on Congress sneaking a tax on Medicare/Medicaid lawsuits into a piece of legislation. Total posts on the LexBlog Network today: 158.

• Key 2013 Delaware Corporate and Commercial Decisions – Francis G.X. Pileggi and Kevin F. Brady of Eckert Seamans on the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog
• Can an Emoticon be Protected as a Trademark? – Washington, DC lawyer Susan Neuberger Weller of Mintz Levin on the firm’s blog, Copyright & Trademark Matters
• There is Still Time for Immigration Reform – Washington, DC attorney Laura Reiff of Greenberg Traurig on the firm’s blog, Immigration Compliance
• Report Calls On Environmentalists to Support Hydraulic Fracturing – Washington, DC lawyer Wayne D’Angelo of Kelley Drye on the firm’s blog, Fracking Insider
• OCR Lacks Insight into HIPAA Security Rule Compliance – Washington, DC lawyer Alaap Shah of EpsteinBeckerGreen on the firm’s blog, TechHealth Perspectives
• Is NSA’s Surveillance Legal? Yes or No? – Hayes Hunt and Joshua Ruby of Cozen O’Conner on Hayes’s blog, From the Sidebar
• Happy New Year from the Oregon Legislature: New Employment Laws To Watch Out For in 2014 – Portland attorney Edward Piper of Stoel Rives on the Stoel Rives World of Employment blog
• CES Convention Won’t Showcase This Trove of Technology – Blank Rome LLP attorney Brian Wm. Higgins in the Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog
• Congress Slips In A Stealth Medicare/Medicaid Lawsuit Tax – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm on his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Securities Lawsuit Filings Up Slightly in 2013 – Ohio attorney Kevin LaCroix of RT ProExec in his blog, The D & O Diary

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