Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/1/08

It’s officially August…and today is the first time in as long as we can remember that this LexBlogosphere update has been pushed out before 12 p.m. PST.  Though a lot of people may be on vacation, there was a tremendous amount of blogged content produced already this morning…and it’s still early in the day.

• For tithing or other gifts to church – get valid receipt – Chapel Hill attorney Greg Herman-Giddens of TrustCounsel PA in the firm’s North Carolina Estate Planning Blog
• Heightened confidentiality for mental-health information – Megan Ford at Barley Snyder LLC in the firm’s Pennsylvania Litigation Blog
• Virginia Boy Scout reservation associated with E.coli outbreak – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Pritzker Ruohonen in the firm’s Food Poisoning Law Blog
• Using the corporate website to make securities disclosures – Ohio lawyer Jack Gravelle of Porter Wright Morris & Arthur in the firm’s Federal Securities Law Blog
• PKF Texas – The Entrepreneur’s Playbook: recruitment – PKF Texas director Greg Price at his blog, From Greg’s Head
• A closer look at the Housing Bill’s “HOPE” – San Francisco attorney Daniel O’Rielly of O’Rielly & Roche in the firm’s California Consumer Finance Litigation Blog
• Who needs lawyers when we’ve got…Dear Abby? – Iowa lawyer Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry in his blog, Rush on Business
• FDA warning: possible dangers of CT scans for patients with pacemakers – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Regan Zambri & Long in the firm’s DC Metro Area Medical Malpractice Law Blog
• Homeowner saves house from foreclosure – Connecticut attorney Beverley Rogers of Rogers & Tartaro in the firm’s Business Litigation Blog
• Associates develop new Business in ’99 Days’ Program – Legal marketing expert Larry Bodine at his Law Marketing Blog

Also worth noting: Our clients keep finding their way into the Wall Street Journal’s “Breaking Law Stories from Around The Web” section. Today, Wilmington attorney Francis G.X. Pileggi of Fox Rothschild – author of the Delaware Corporate and Commercial Litigation Blog – is prominently featured…and this isn’t the first time he’s been noticed by the publication.