Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 4/23/08

Corporate fraud, coastal restoration and Wesley Snipes – who, as Tom Withers notes, faces sentencing tomorrow – are just some of the topics of discussion in the news on this Wednesday. See the full batch of ten below.

• Corporate fraud – FBI speaks out – Financial risk manager Susan Mangiero of Pension Governance in her blog, Pension Risk Matters
• House votes to close code of ethics loophole on contracts performed outside the United States – Pennsylvania attorney Michael Payne of Payne Hackebracht & Sullivan in the firm’s Federal Construction Contracting Blog
• John Barry states federal government should pay for coastal protection and restoration in Louisiana – Baton Rouge lawyer Erich Rapp of Kean Miller in his Louisiana Coastal Wetlands Blog
• PCAST’s second NNI assessment – Washington, D.C. attorney John C. Monica, Jr. of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Nanotechnology Law Report
• Managing employees with personal financial problems – Lancaster lawyer Michael Moore of Russell, Krafft & Gruber in the firm’s Pennsylvania Employment Law Blog
• 30 day reprieve on filing franchise tax returns under the new law – Texas attorney Jack Howell of Sprouse Shrader Smith in the firm’s Tax Law & Business Organization Strategy Domain Blog
• Reforms to improve the Spanish economy – Spanish tax barrister Fernando Del Canto at his blog, Tax Precision
• Malpractice plaintiff obtains peer review records – Pennsylvania lawyer Michael Cassidy of Tucker Arensberg in the firm’s Med Law Blog
• NJ Legislature to consider applying the Franchise Practices Act to “mobile” franchises – Lawrenceville attorney John E. MacDonald of Stark & Stark in the firm’s New Jersey Law Blog
• Snipes sentencing tomorrow – no defense sentencing memo – Georgia lawyer Tom Withers of Gillen, Withers & Lake in his Federal Criminal Defense Blog