Legal News – LexBlogosphere: 9/15/08

Today’s wrap-up of the best posts from around the LexBlogosphere brings a number of great entries. There are multiple posts on the two biggest news stories from the last couple days: Hurricane Ike and today’s economic turmoil.

• Sales tax breaks in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike – Dallas lawyer Alan E. Sherman in his Texas State & Local Tax Law Blog
• Hurricane Ike and Houston Courts – Texas attorney J. Shannon Cavers in her Houston Divorce & Family Law Attorney Blog
• Is Employee Web Surfing During Working Hours Really a Problem? – San Francisco lawyer Philip Gordon of Littler Mendelson on the firm’s Workplace Privacy Counsel
• Some Good Ideas About Federal Sentencing – Texas attorney Jamie Spencer in his Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog
• Journalists, and the future of the media. Part II – Patrick Maines, president of The Media Institute, at the Institute’s Media & Communications Policy Blog
• Negotiating Justice: Are Mediators Corrupting the Legal System? – Attorney-mediator Victoria Pynchon at the IP ADR Blog
• Sports-Related Concussions Increase in America’s Youth – New Jersey lawyer Bruce Stern of Stark & Stark on the firm’s Traumatic Brain Injury Law Blog
• Black Monday: Economy Heads South. Will Law Firms Follow? – Chicago attorney Patrick J. Lamb of Valorem Law Group at his blog, In Search of Perfect Client Service
• Wall Street Debacle Will Have Ramifications for Manhattan Housing – New York real estate broker Douglas Heddings at his blog, True Gotham
• Free Fall: Lehman Enters Chapter 11 – Chicago lawyer Steve Jakubowski of The Coleman Law Firm on the The Bankruptcy Law Blog

Also worth noting: Kudos to Steve Jakubowski, as his excellent post on the Lehman bankruptcy was featured today on The Wall Street Journal Law Blog.