Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 8/8/08

It’s a monumental date, at least as far as the calendar is concerned: 8/8/08. It seems like just yesterday we were talking with our friends about the excitement of 9/9/99…how time flies. Before you go enjoy the couple days you have off this weekend, take a look at today’s roundup below.

• Fed issues revised Consumer Compliance Handbook – San Francisco attorney Dan O’Rielly of O’Rielly & Roche in the firm’s California Consumer Finance Litigation Blog
• 84 boy scouts with symptoms of E. coli 0157:H7 – The blogging lawyers & attorneys at Marler Clark in the firm’s E. coli Blog
• Mediation offers better odds than going to trial – New Jersey lawyer Richard J. Webb of Healthcare Neutral in his Healthcare Neutral ADR Blog
• New study suggests defendants should try more cases – Portland attorney Dennis Westlind of Stoel Rives in the firm’s employment law blog, World of Work
• Altering medical records: what not to do when being audited by Medicare – Pennsylvania lawyer Todd Rodriguez of Fox Rothschild in the firm’s Physician Law Blog
• The REAL reason the Packers traded Favre – Iowa attorney Rush Nigut of Brick Gentry at his blog, Rush on Business
• Learning from a sex discrimination suit – part 1 – New York lawyer Angeo Tartaro of Rogers & Tartaro in the firm’s Business Litigation Blog
• Brokerages that process stock trades made over the Internet won’t like this – Dallas attorney Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Think tank releases nano-technology report – Philadelphia lawyer Sean Wajert of Dechert LLP in his Mass Tort Defense Blog
• The power of the public guardian and trustee – Canadian attorney Rick Bickhram of Hull & Hull in the firm’s Toronto Estate Law Blog