November 2, 2007

• Sued if you do dept.: electronic discovery obligations imposed in U.S. litigation may force targets to violate other countries' privacy laws [IP Mag/Law.com]
• Washington Post article on political struggle over state court races draws much blog comment [via Technorati]
• "He's not a lawyer, call us if he's represented you": hardball TV ad [ABA Journal, Texas Lawyer]
• With claims experience improving, Maryland's biggest med-mal insurer no longer needs subsidies -- but should it pay back the ones it got? [Baltimore Sun]
• Illinois's Lakin Law Firm and Freed & Weiss have battled each other in court all year, which doesn't mean they can't team up to sue insurer [MC Record]
• Juries sometimes side with defendants in "take-home" asbestos cases blaming cancer on family members' dusty clothing [Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat]
• When it comes to the (somewhat misnamed) issue of mandatory retirement, European law isn't as Utopian/interventionist as ours in the U.S. [Fox]