Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 7/24/08

Lots to cover in today’s update, from a construction moratorium in L.A. to billion dollar biotech acquisition deals. It may be Thursday – a day not typically known as a hot time for blogging – but there have been quite a few LexBlog clients updating their blogs today, which gave us an even greater crop of posts to pick from than usual.

• State Water Board imposes moratorium on new construction in Los Angeles region – San Francisco attorneys Ella Foley-Gannon and James Rusk of Sheppard Mullin in the firm’s Real Estate and Construction Law Blog
• A unified voice on U.S. immigration reform and ICE worksite enforcement – Maryland lawyer Meetesh Patel of the MVP Law Group at his Immigration Law Blog
• Supreme Court rolling out new digitization projects – Austin attorney D. Todd Smith in his Texas Appellate Law Blog
• Targeted Small Business (TSB) program – Des Moines lawyer Liz Overton of Sullivan & Ward in the firm’s Iowa Law Blog
• “Perry Mason of Hollywood” set to be indicted on criminal campaign finance charges – Georgia attorney Anthony Lake of Gillen, Withers & Lake in the firm’s Federal Criminal Defense Blog
• Texas gets tough on data disposal practices – New York lawyer Frank A. Pugliese of Thelen in the firm’s Technology Law Update
• Water from broken levees falls within insurance policy flood exclusion – Baton Rouge attorney Todd A. Rossi of Kean Miller in the firm’s Louisiana Law Blog
• Roche makes $43.7 billion bid to acquire Genentech – Los Gatos lawyer Kristie Prinz in her California Biotech Law Blog
• Niche it: stop chasing those undesirable cases and clients – Legal marketing expert Tom Kane of Kane Consulting Inc. in his Legal Marketing Blog
• NYSID posts filing guidance for EIAs under new law – New York attorney Cailie Currin in her Life Insurance Compliance & Regulation Law Blog