The tryptophan should be through your system by now — no excuse for napping under your desk this Monday. Take a look at these law links to ease you back into work after the extended weekend.

• Meet Maryland’s “bedbug barrister.”
• Stephen Janis’ take on Baltimore City’s criminal justice system.
• What is there to be thankful for? Here’s a rundown of one divorce lawyer’s list.
• A history of the old Baltimore County Jail. (Here’s part II of the entry and part III).
• Police won’t charge a store owner who shot a potato-chip stealing teen in the butt.
• Associate bonuses at New York firms remain on the low end (compared to the boom years).
• A surplus of collections lawsuits are keeping judges busy.
• Woman claims she owns the sun. She has staked her claim with a notary public.

Welcome back! Time to catch up on some law-related tidbits:

• In a rough divorce, who gets to keep the friends?
• Even good doctors make mistakes — and doctors who do work on superstar athletes are not immune from malpractice lawsuits.
• Consumers struggling with payments really have to be on the lookout these days for scammers,  but some in Erie, Penn. have been duped beyond the norm. A debt collection company there set up a FAKE courtroom, complete with faux judges and sheriffs. This one’s a doozy.
• An insurer is suing the D.C. Water and Sewer Authority for $8 million because its water lines are so leaky that firefighters could not get enough pressure to put out a fire in the home of Peggy Cooper-Cafritz, a collector of fine art.
• Voters in Iowa ousted three judges from the state’s Supreme Court last week. The three were part of the unanimous decision to allow same-sex marriage in 2009.
• Lamebook v. Facebook
• The University of Missouri, Kansas City has launched a small firm and solo attorney incubator for recent grads.