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Showing posts with label law blogs. Show all posts

Labor law blog: The Labor Law Center Blog

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I ran across this blog last week and think it is worth taking a look. Its origins are not clear to me but it is a group blog and labor law seems a bit of a misnomer. Most often labor law tends to mean only the law governing unions and an union relations with employers. This blog goes beyond that narrow definition to include employment law issues such as overtime pay and EEOC discrimination matters. On top of all that, the writers write clearly about the subjects. So take a look at The Labor Law Center Blog.
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Indiana Blog: Indiana Commercial Foreclosure Law

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I ran across this blog in the past week and with more time I would have mentioned it earlier. The writer is John Waller from Indianapolis' Wooden & McLaughlin. Well, that is what his About Me section tells me. The main entry for the blog is here.

However, not everything is about foreclosures.

What If A Borrower Ignores A Lender's Foreclosure Suit? does a very good job describing a default judgment. Too many people think that they must appear in court before any judgment can be entered against them.

One that hits home to me (especially since I am trying to research the issue of corporate piercing) was More On Piercing The Corporate Veil In Indiana, And The UFTA.
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Reading around - law, business, and technology blogs

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I wish I had time to read everything that interested me. I fight to keep up with the blogs and e-mails and articles that I need to read. Here are some blogs I ran across in the recent past which I find interesting but a bit outside of my law practice at this time.

Eric Goldman's Technology & Marketing Law Blog. I think every business needs to keep an eye on technology and every business lawyer needs to keep that eye (if not both) on where law and technology intersects. Mr. Goldman's blog is that intersection of law and technology, but for me it is just a bit more directed to technology businesses and the law. Definitely a great read but not of those I am supposed to be reading to keep up with my practice areas.

Law and Technology Theory. Definitely one that does not directly aid my law practice but I am tempted to read. Tempted for no other reason than to test my understanding of what I am reading. It has not been updated in three months and gives links for those interested in the more academic reaches of the law. Here is a taste of the blog:
The first draws upon Haraway’s desire that “[a]ny interesting being in technoscience, such as a textbook, molecule, equation…can – often should – be teased open to show the sticky economic, technical, political, organic, historical, mythic and textual threads that make up its tissues.” (Haraway Modest Witness 1997: 68). While Haraway criticizes him, this seems similar to the type of sociological and historical studies by Bruno Latour, in which complex relations between “agents” - scientists, engineers, corporate leaders, government officers, political, social and cultural events and concerns of the time, and the very machines that scientists and engineers use -interrelate in any technoscientific endeavor. This body of research suggests an approach to law and technology that undertakes detailed examinations of the networks at play behind, not just technological change, but legal responses to technological change.

LawFont.com has the subtitle of "an analysis of law, technology, economics, and policy." The blog gives an Australian perspective on law and technology because it is an Australian blog. The topics cover some of the same territory as Eric Goldman's blog and has a similar interest to me but with the added flavor of a foreign viewpoint. Remember folks, this is a global economy. I also want to give the people running this blog a compliment for a group blog without much of a mess.

Conglomerate. Back to the States for another group blog without mess. This time business law professor types. Good writing but aimed at a different kind of practice than mine is nowadays.

Finally, a blog that I have only skimmed: Truth on the Market. It describes itself as " Academic commentary on law, business, economics and more."
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New Indiana lawyer blog

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Tony Zirkle of South Bend blogs on criminal defense, products liability case, and divorces at Indiana Lawyer Blog. For those who wander in here from the South Bend area, he also has links to his practice web pages.
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The Personality Rights Database

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I posted briefly on the Seventh Circuit's wiki and here is another. At first, I thought The Personality Rights Database would only provide some mildly interesting intellectual stimulation. I think it might also have some practical value, for the wiki includes privacy rights within its definition of personality rights. More importantly, the wiki includes United States law.

Not that the wiki has copious amounts of information at this point in time. It does get me thinking of applications closer to home. One thing crossed my mind was how much of a future West's Indiana Digest (and all those other digests) will have when enough enterprising attorneys join together to create wikis on an area of law. For example, what would happen if the Family Law Section of the Indiana State Bar created a wiki exploring the fullness of Indiana's family law? I do not recall writers like Dennis Kennedy using the analogy to the West Digests but I think it is one that other attorneys will understand immediately.
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Reading around: Employment and business law blogs

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A caution: these blogs interest me because they the qualities of good information being well-written and not because they have anything directly to say about Indiana law. I make this caution for the non-lawyers reading this blog who might not understand why a blog written by an attorney practicing in the State of Washington (such as Jill Pugh who runs two of the blogs below) does not mean much in Indiana. State law still controls a large swath of employment law and each state has its own local variations. Even with federal law, differences exist between the different federal circuit courts of appeal.

For example, Ms. Pugh's Employee Handbooks Blog does have several posts that are useful outside of Washington. The post FLSA Online Overtime Calculator has utility because the federal regulations apply nationally and the overtime calculator does not necessarily require a judge's interpretation. While the post When You Have to Fire An Employee - 10 Things to Keep In Mind has really good ideas, I must point out that Indiana law also says what cannot be withheld from an employee's paycheck. It is a lawyer thing, see? The point made by in the post still applies. Then there is,Handling Employee Personal Data, which deals with applying a specific Washington statute. However, this does give me an idea for a post of my own.

As I read her Employment Law Blog, I see as providing more general information for both employers and employees. I must admit to some muddling of the employment law part of my practice since leaving my in-house counsel job. Employment law for me has been employer oriented and that has had to change a bit. I think small businesses need access to counsel for employment issues but I am finding few in the area interested in my overtures to provide these services. If I do not scale down employment law as part of my practice, I find Ms. Pugh's blog has some inspirational ideas for this blog.

Taking a far broader scope than this blog is West Virginia Business Litigation. My aim here was to stay closer to home with more specifically Indiana focus. I am finding myself with plenty to write about, so much that posts planned have been postponed, and I find myself envious of this blog.
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Sites to check out: franchising and bankruptcy

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Finding information on franchising is not all that easy. For technical information, nothing beats the FTC site. Franchising news, however, gets trickier. Some sites are just about drawing in potential franchisors and franchisees. Now I have found Blue MauMau and I think it hits all the marks for a franchising news site. Anyone with any interest in franchising should check it out.

I no longer have a consumer bankruptcy practice and for any insolvent businesses I am suggesting state law alternatives . Why? Because I detest the 2005 bankruptcy amendments. However, I still like to keep an eye on what is going on under the new law. I still think that any case involving money means taking bankruptcy into consideration and I am keeping up the creditor side of my bankruptcy practice. So far I have been quite taken with the blog Credit Slips. Credit Slips is a blog written by a group of law professors. Quite a lively read and one I would suggest for others to read.
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Construction Law and Trucking Litigation

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For those lawyers and businesses dealing with the construction industry, check out Construction Risk Management Portal and Library.

I ran across Truck Injury Lawyer Blog through the Inter Alia blog. I would say this is blog is directed more to lawyers but if you are interested in the subject you need to give it a look.
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Blog review

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A new blogs relating to business and law came to my attention this week that I found interesting:

BSA Audits. I hear little these days about the Business Software Association suing and raiding businesses for unlicensed software. I the early through mid-nineties I recall the Association making a lot of news over businesses using unlicensed software. That kind of news belongs nowadays to the music and movie industries suing college students and younger kids for downloading movies and music. However, the BSA still lives and the attorney running this blog is keeping track of them. I recommend my business clients take stock of their software and make sure that all of it is licensed, but I must admit it has been along time since it has been in the forefront of my brain. That may need to change.
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Employment law - news for applicants

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When I was in-house for a local company I made a daily stop at George's Employment Law Blawg. I noticed today that George is altering his blog away from lawyers towards job applicants.
I was very pleased to see my #17 ranking. I didn’t make the American Bar Association’s “Blawg 100,” which was the cover story (just about the only story) in this month’s ABA Journal, but I’m positioning this blog more in the general career market and don’t try to appeal to lawyers too much — so this ranking means more to me.
His writing is just as good and I still think this is one of the best employment law blogs.
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Consumer Rights Law Blog

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An Ohio attorney who practices also in Indiana. I have just started reading this one - long posts, lots of photos, but with a lot of information about defective autos, washing machines (yes, washing machines), and identity theft.
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Business law blogs

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Yes, another round up of business law blogs.

For a bit more formal sort: BusinessAssociationsBlog.com. Written by Stephen Bainbridge of UCLA School of Law. Professor Bainbridge writes about law, business and more interesting topics here.

Warning: my recommendation here may be just a sign of my innate contrariness. Written by another law professor, I found Legal Infrastructure more the interesing blog

I do not watch The Office. Not its American or BBC incarnation. Which may be why I do not get "that's what she said" which uses The Office as the springboard for employment law issues. Good writing, though.

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Employment law, civil litigation, white collar crime

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Some new resources I ran across this week.

First, another of the Law Professor Network Blogs - Workplace Prof Blog. Lively, with news as well as case reporting but still academic (if less so than most of the Law Professor Blogs).

Second, is the Trial Lawyer Resource Center. The site's format differs from the usual blog but it calls itself a blog and it has an RSS feed. The site describes itself:
You've found the blog where a number of the USA's top trial attorneys join together with litigation experts to lend their expertise on topics that matter in your trial practice. Gain insight in case selection, work up, trial strategy, evidence, and post settlement issues. Contributors will regularly share their real life experiences and knowledge to help you represent injured consumers.
The Daily Caveat covers white collar crime and corporate fraud but is not written by an attorney.
About the Daily Caveat
The Daily Caveat is written by Michael Thomas, a recovering corporate investigator in the Washington, DC-area. Michael was a co-founder of Caveat Research, LLC., a business-oriented private investigative firm providing sophisticated corporate research and investigative services to corporate boards, law firms, consultancies and investment banks.
DocuTicker poses some interest and a problem for me. The site describes itself as "DocuTicker offers a hand-picked selection of resources, reports and publications from government agencies, NGOs, think tanks and other public interest organizations." The interest comes from the range of topics covered including small businesses. The problem lies in the more academic tendencies of the posts and applying them to practicalities of my practice.

I am very much intrigued by Settle It Now Negotiation Blog. Practical and lively written. This blog lead me to Trial Lawyer Resource Center, so I am very impressed.
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Reading Around the Blogs

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I envy Your Name Is My Business from Anthony J. Tambourino. I wish I could be as succinct and lively. Mr. Tambourino describes his blog as musings on Trademark, Copyright, Business and other legal matters.

On the other hand, Ideoblog has things to say about business but a bit more and maybe at a level that is not so practical. Lot of fun to read, though. It bills itself as "A blog about ideas." It has them and they worth reading and thinking about.

I was checking up on Deliberations when I learned about Mortgage Meltdown in the post Welcome, Mortgage Meltdown Blog. This is the is the first blog I have seen on the subprime mess. I think this one will be seeing a lot of traffic over the next year.

I have not checked out a few blogs for a while. One of these is the Texas Non-Compete Blog. Considering how often I have been writing about the problems of hiring employees from competitors (See here and here), I think Texas Trade Secret Law: When Your New Employee Knows Too Much has sound advice. One caveat: what works in one state may not have the same result in another and I know of no Indiana case with the same facts as these. However, I would not mind trying a case where the new employer used this strategy.

Dean Hanley writes about employment law from a slightly different perspective in his Alaska Employment Law. I only had a chance to skim and I see some things I want to go back and check out.

Another blog I have not read lately is Arkansas Business Litigation Lawyer & Attorney. Looks like they have been having some "fun" trademark cases in Arkansas.

Binary Law Blog writes about law in the digital age. I admit lawyers might find this more interesting - if they have interest in high tech. I think anyone who wants to know more about the intersection of law and high tech will have a good time.
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Law Prof writing on partnerships and limited liability companies

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The Law Professor Network publishes Unincorporated Business Law Prof Blog by Gregory Duhl. The blog describes itself as the Official Blog of the AALS Section on Agency, Partnership, LLCs, and Unincorporated Business Associations.

I notice that no updates appear after October and I assume the content will find more interest with lawyers than with laypeople. For laypeople, I say the blog reflects the little use lawyers make of partnerships. That does not explain the lack of information on LLC litigation.
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An Interesting Business Law Related Blog

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I ran across madisonian.net on November 27. Do not be put off by it being written by law professors. Anyone alluding to Chumbawamba possesses a good sense of humor which translates into a writing that is anything but pedantic. The following example comes from Real Online Competition: The Right to Exit (and I suggest reading all of the post):
I can just imagine the howls of protest–”Lock-in is the whole Web 2.0 business model! Give ‘em stuff for free, use their UGC, and monetize the eyeballs!” But my hope is that (user sunk costs + lock-in) becomes a much less compelling business model over the coming decade. Although optimism on “innovation markets” has largely anesthetized antitrust authorities looking at these situations, we should reconsider whether encouraging big players to compete to capture a market produces more gains and innovation than rules that reduce the cost of exit from dominant players.
I am aware of the Web 2.0 business model but have not studied it in any depth. Yet, I can see the writer's point quite clearly. One that is well worth thinking about for businesses, for consumers and for their lawyers.
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Oh, boy, electronic discovery - businesses be aware

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Electronic discovery does not mean using some electric gadget to find something. For lawyers, discovery means finding the evidence from the other side. The federal and state rules have changed to recognize a world now mostly computerized. I am trying to get into this a bit deeper for my business clients and getting them ready for any future litigation.

Educating the clients on this subject, has been a bit difficult. Outside of the media reporting on e-mails in regards to the United States Attorney firings, there really is a lack of understanding with the general public about how much of our lives and business now resides in electrons dancing with one another in computer hard drives. Finding something written for clients instead of lawyers or technicians has not been easy. The clients do understand do not delete anything in any way that looks suspicious, if you delete anything the do it as part of a company policy that is neutral, and have some means of retrieving everything there is on any subject.

Meanwhile, I am educating myself with articles from blogs such as the The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog. That blog has posts such as Emails as "Smoking Gun" Evidence and All You Need to Know About Electronic Discovery. Dennis Kennedy is required reading on this subject. Thanks to The Illinois Trial Practice Weblog I also found myself back to DiscoveryResources.org.

All this and trying to keep with the stuff on my desk, too. Such is the practice of law.
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New Employment Law Blog: Manpower Employment Blawg

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Thanks to Rush on Business for leading me to The Manpower Blawg. While I disagree that The Manpower Blawg uniquely provides free legal information (I think I and all other legal bloggers are doing this), I fully endorse this statement: "This blog -- or blawg -- is designed to provide you with up-to-the-minute employment law information without putting you to sleep...." The blog does anything but bore and worth keeping an eye on - especially for plaintiff attorneys.
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Business blogs November 2007

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If you are new here, you can find where I have posted on other non-lawyer business blogs. Just look click on these links: business blogs, online resources, and/or General business information.

I decided this month to just make a monthly review of business related blogs that might not be also law related. My biases may show - I do tend to tilt towards the marketing blogs and towards any business related blog that is well written. Here goes this month's selections:

Branding & Marketing

Victor Medina's Small Business and Solo Law Practice Blog

Small Fuel Marketing

Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Blog

FC Now - The Fast Company Blog

BizzBangBuzz - Which is much more and much more impressive than its description: "Law blog focused on small business, technology start ups, entrepreneurs and emerging growth companies"

Duct Tape Marketing Blog - marketing for the small business
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Fashion Apparel Law

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Fashion apparel has not been a major issue in my practice but I got to say I like Fashion Legal Issues from the Sheppard Mullin Law Firm and Faking It: What Designers Should Know About Piracy, Purse Parties, and Parking Lots touches on an interest of mine - copyright law.

"Piracy is not just a problem on the high seas or the internet: fashion designers have fallen victim, too. Current copyright laws protect only the artwork of a design, such as labels, logos, prints and embroidery. Leave off the label or change the logo slightly, and manufacturers and copy-cat designers have free reign to duplicate the cut, shape, style, and silhouette of an item of clothing or an accessory. This widespread practice of design piracy by popular retailers is legal…for now."
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