By: Danielle Ulman

Welcome back to the roundup on this frigid Monday morning. Here are some law links to peruse while you defrost.

• Is Bernstein biased?
• Copyright and patent litigation cases fell in Maryland last year.
• In a case that circles back to Maryland courts, the owners of the Atlanta Thrashers and the Atlanta Hawks (those are hockey and basketball teams, for the uninitiated) have sued the lawyers who wrote up a “fatally flawed” contract to buy out the interest of one of the team’s owners.
• According to a federal class action lawsuit, those Power Balance bracelets Shaq is promoting are a sham.
• Looks like the FBI may be investigating Baltimore’s towing business.
• Major U.S. law firms laid off 745 people in 2010 — far, far fewer than the year before.
• Communicating with clients is essential for lawyers. So, what to do when your client has multiple disabilities? For one lawyer, the answer has been hiring a certified deaf interpreter.
• Not so fast — that work e-mail you thought was private might be accessible to your employer.
• The Baltimore County Bar Association oral history project is getting underway.