Today’s wrap-up of the best posts from around the LexBlogosphere brings a number of great entries. There are multiple posts on the two biggest news stories from the last couple days: Hurricane Ike and today’s economic turmoil.
- Sales tax breaks in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike – Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
- Hurricane Ike and Houston Courts – Texas attorney J. Shannon Cavers in her Houston Divorce & Family Law Attorney Blog
- Is Employee Web Surfing During Working Hours Really a Problem? – San Francisco lawyer Philip Gordon of Littler Mendelson on the firm’s Workplace Privacy Counsel
- Some Good Ideas About Federal Sentencing – Texas attorney Jamie Spencer in his Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
- Journalists, and the future of the media. Part II – Patrick Maines, president of The Media Institute, at the Institute’s Media & Communications Policy Blog
- Negotiating Justice: Are Mediators Corrupting the Legal System? – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog
- Sports-Related Concussions Increase in America’s Youth – New Jersey lawyer Bruce Stern of Stark & Stark on the firm’s Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
- Black Monday: Economy Heads South. Will Law Firms Follow? – Chicago attorney Patrick J. Lamb of Valorem Law Group at his blog, In Search of Perfect Client Service
- Wall Street Debacle Will Have Ramifications for Manhattan Housing – New York real estate broker Douglas Heddings at his blog, True Gotham
- Free Fall: Lehman Enters Chapter 11 – Chicago lawyer Steve Jakubowski of The Coleman Law Firm on the The Bankruptcy Law Blog
Also worth noting: Kudos to Steve Jakubowski, as his excellent post on the Lehman bankruptcy was featured today on The Wall Street Journal Law Blog.