Top 10 in Law Blogs: Minor League Baseball, Sporting Goods, and the Washington Football Team
July 7, 2016
Here’s Thursday’s Top 10 featuring more than just the sports related topics above.
- Proposal in Congress Would Prevent Overtime Pay for Minor Leaguers – Jackson Lewis’ Collegiate and Professional Sports Blog reviews the “Save America’s Pastime Act” which would prevent overtime pay for minor league ballplayers whom are often working 50-70 hour work weeks.
- LXBN Leaders: State Bar of Texas Backs Up Its Blogging Members – LexBlog’s Zosha Millman talks to Patricia McConnico, managing editor of the Texas Bar Journal about their approach to blogging and social media.
- First Year Lawyer Salary Increases Are Good for All—Clients Too – Kenneth Grady of Seyfarth Lean Consulting goes in depth on why the rising salary’s for first year lawyers will help clients find a better value.
- Sports Authority sells its customer database to Dick’s Sporting Goods for $15 million – As customer database’s become mega-assets, all companies should make sure their privacy policy allows them business to sell its biggest asset if necessary
- Microsoft acquisition of LinkedIn could spell ethics issues for lawyers – The Law for Lawyers Today, says the the combination of Microsoft and LinkedIn lead to the revealing of confidential client relationships.
- No Budding in Line Washington Redskins – Tiffany Blofield of the DuetsBlog reviews the naming rights regarding the Washington Football team, “the federal government is asking the United States Supreme Court to deny the Washington Redskins’ request to skip over the appellate court and go directly to its Court to have this dispute decided.”
- The Punishing Effect of Rule 11 – Federal courts correct bad litigation behavior, eventually. An attorney in rural Pennsylvania had to pay over $100,000 in opposing counsel fees.
- “Sue me already” – Analyzing Kanye’s (In)Famous Video (Part II) – Check out Norton Rose Fulbright’s three-part series on “the different legal claims unwitting stars of Kanye West’s “Famous” video might assert.”
- Using Co-worker’s Computer Password Ends with Federal Computer Hacking Conviction – A federal appeals court affirmed the conviction of a former executive, David Nosal in a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).
- Ninth Circuit: CFAA’s Prohibition on Accessing Computer Without Authorization “Unambiguous” – The Inside Privacy blog by Covington & Burling also takes a look on the recent computer hacking conviction.
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