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Is the Workers Compensation system really there to protect us if we are injured on the job? On this Workers Comp Matters program, host Attorney Alan S. Pierce welcomes Dr. Patrice Woeppel to take an inside look at the ins and outs of the workers’ compensation system and discuss her new book, Depraved Indifference: the Workers’ Compensation System.

Well, I have finally stumbled back from the post-conference tour around China, and am in the office at last. Thank you, Jim, both for minding the blog, and for posting for me while I was in China. The great firewall of China would have stymied my attempts to blog and Twitter about the China-U.S. conference, but for e-mail and friendship!

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Stuart Basefsky advocates broadening the concept of institutional repositories (IRs) to serve as full-fledged electronic libraries and documents how they can then serve the greater purpose of collecting, disseminating, analyzing and exchanging useful digital information for academic purposes.

In many workers’ comp cases, claimants wrongly assume that Medicare should pay their medical expenses instead of their Medicare SetAside account. And this mistake could lead to some serious and sometimes financially disastrous consequences. Ringler Radio host, Larry Cohen welcomes Mike Westcott, the new president of the National Alliance of Medicare SetAside Professionals, to discuss how to handle these workers’ comp issues, explore some of the workers’ comp and Medicare SetAside concerns and look at impending liability issues.

A Southern California man is accused of impersonating a lawyer while on supervised release from a prison for….. wait for it…. wait for it….. pretending to be a lawyer.
“Harold Goldstein, 64, of Newport Beach, Calif., posted an ad on Craigslist claiming to be a retired attorney looking for lawyers to do contract work. [...]

Scott A. Hodes comments on the Obama administrations’ decision to continue to fight the release of detainee photos.

Martin Eberhard, co-founder of Tesla Motors, the makers of high-performance electric sports cars, is suing the company’s CEO, Elon Musk, citing allegations of slander, libel and breach of contract.
Eberhard’s lawsuit was filed on May 26th in San Mateo County, California Superior Court and seeks unspecified damages.
“Tesla Motors Inc. co-founder Martin Eberhard sued the company [...]

Layoffs in the legal profession have been in the news lately, but downsizing from the top? More experienced attorneys, even senior partners in some larger law firms are not as secure in their jobs as they once were in what may be more signs of practicing law as a business. Law.com bloggers and co-hosts Bob Ambrogi and J. Craig Williams welcome Ed Poll, a recognized expert and author in law practice management and Stephen E. Seckler, president of Seckler Legal Consulting, to discuss the new benchmarks the legal profession is seeing in job performance and what the business of law may look like in the future.

The Obama administration has appointed Kenneth R. Feinberg Compensation Czar; giving him the responsibility of setting the salaries for 175 executives at the nation’s seven largest companies who received government bailout funds.

On this edition of the Kennedy-Mighell Report, legal bloggers Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell discuss search, the new Wolfram Alpha”computational engine,” the future of search on the Internet, and how it may apply to lawyers. In a brand new segment “Stuff That Dennis and Tom Are Talking About,” Dennis and Tom will take an in-depth look at FriendFeed. Dennis and Tom will wrap up with Parting Shots, leaving you with lasting tips and observations. After you listen, be sure to check out Tom & Dennis co-blog and book by the same name, The Lawyers Guide to Collaboration Tools and Technologies.