Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 5/9/08

It’s Friday again, meaning that today’s update is our last batch of ten news briefs for a few days. So why not end the week in style? We’ve got some long-dormant blogs back in business today…and when their posts are combined with the work of our more familiar guests, a unique batch of news is born.

• Rule 35 IMES under attack – Matt Fankhauser of the Salt Lake City firm Strong & Hanni in their Utah Insurance Law Blog
• Opening of South Korean market to U.S. beef sparks protests – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Marler Clark in the firm’s Mad Cow Blog
• Illinois insured loses evidence and coverage too – Boston attorney Michael Aylward of Morrison & Mahoney at the National Insurance Law Forum
• Texas tax enforcement: anatomy of a Texas state tax collection case (part five – collecting tax from a corporate officer by “piercing the corporate veil”) – Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• How to write contracts for business people – Iowa attorney Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry at his blog, Rush on Business
• Your preneed forecast: exams, followed by audits – Kansas lawyer William Statler of Statler Legal Services in his Death Care Compliance Law Blog
• Working with legal recruiters – Texas legal consultant Courtney Sapire in her Law Department Search Blog
• PRO-IP Bill passes in House of Representatives – Washington, D.C. attorney Brian Wm. Higgins of Blank Rome in his Maryland Intellectual Property Law Blog
• Teen drivers and over confidence: new study – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Regan Zambri & Long in the firm’s DC Metro Area Personal Injury Law Blog
• The penalties to Connecticut employers for hiring illegal immigrants – Hartford lawyer Daniel Schwartz of Pullman & Comley in his Connecticut Employment Law Blog
• Online library quashes National Security Letter – The blogging constitutionalists from the American Constitution Society at their ACSBlog