Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/30/08

It’s an amazing afternoon out in Missoula, MT as it’s time to do the daily roundup of the best posts from around the LexBlogosphere. There were several posts about the bailout and the ongoing economic turmoil. Most notably: Max Kennerly uses his entertaining writing style in a post on the lesson lawyers should learn from the failed bailout.

• Third Circuit Reverses Bankruptcy Court’s Exercise of Jurisdiction Over Non-Debtors – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at MorrisJames in the firm’s Delaware Business Litigation Report
• FDA Stands for "Freaking Doesn’t Act." – Dallas lawyer Angel Reyes of Heygood, Orr, Reyes, Pearson & Bartolomei in his Angel Reyes Blog
• Delegating Division of Assets Made Divorce Judgment Non-Final – Birmingham attorney Craig N. Rosler of Lightfoot Franklin White in the firm’s Alabama Appellate Watch Blog
• Breaking Up Is Hard To Do – Johnette Hassell, founder and CEO of Electronic Evidence Retrieval LLC, in her Computer Forensics & E-Discovery Blog
• New Mortgage Laws in California – San Francisco lawyer Dan O’Rielly of O’Rielly & Roche in the firm’s California Consumer Finance Litigation Blog
• A Lesson for Trial Lawyers from the Bailout Bill’s Failure – Philadelphia attorney Maxwell Kennerly of The Beasley Firm at his blog, Litigation & Trial
• Negotiating the Economy: You Can’t Save Your Face and Your Ass at the Same Time – Lawyer-mediator Victoria Pynchon at her Settle It Now Negotiation Blog
• Managing Layoffs and Reductions in Force – Lancaster attorney Michael Moore of McNees Wallace & Nurick in the firm’s Pennsylvania Labor & Employment Blog
• Chicago announces plan to reduce area emissions to Kyoto Protocol levels – Washington , DC lawyer James Boles of Howrey on the firm’s Global Climate Law Blog
• Non-Compete Agreements Getting Harder to Enforce? – Somerville attorney Frank Steinberg in his New Jersey Employment Law Blog