Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/20/08

Lots to report from the LexBlogosphere on this rainy Wednesday, with plenty of great content being published – in a few cases, multiple posts by the same author – fairly early in the day. The selections from today’s batch of 10 include:

• Second Army major guilty of bribery – New York attorney Fred Abrams in his Asset Search Blog
• Are lawyers risk-averse for not working on contingent fees? – Philadelphia lawyer Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Total Body Formula recall: MD, VA, DC, PA – Rick Kuykendall, blogging at the Trial Lawyer Resource Center
• RAM copying – an issue of more than transitory duration – New York attorney Jeff Neuburger of Proskauer Rose in the firm’s New Media & Technology Law Blog
• Appeals Court strikes EPA ban on monitoring pollution – The blogging constitutionalists at the American Constitution Society in their ACS Blog
• Life after Riegel: a glimpse of the possible – Los Angeles lawyer Lisa Baird of Reed Smith in the firm’s Life Sciences Legal Update
• Big verdicts against nursing homes – Illinois attorney Jonathan Rosenfeld of Strellis & Field in the firm’s Chicago Nursing Home Lawyer Blog
• When must staff counsel reveal their identity? – Boston lawyer Mike Aylward of Morrison & Mahoney at the National Insurance Law Forum
• Discrimination claims can cut to the core of an organization’s values – Lancaster attorney Michael Moore of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
• Passing of accounts and conflicts of interest – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Hull & Hull in the firm’s Toronto Estate Law Blog