Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : December 13, 2010

It’s December 13th and, as I’m sure everyone is starting to feel it a little, Christmas is getting closer. In the theme of “12 Days of Christmas,” Greg Herman-Giddens lays out 12 estate planning gifts for your family. Total posts on The LexBlog Network today: 138.

• Executives of Canada’s Royal Group Technologies (now part of Georgia Gulf Corp.) Acquitted of Fraud Charges – Georgia attorney Anthony Lake of Gillen, Withers & Lake in the firm’s Federal Criminal Defense Blog
• Will JP Morgan Chase Dodge Another Bullet? – Washington, DC lawyer Steven Berk on his blog, A Voice For Main Street
• Fee Award is Overturned Where Trial Court Failed to Consider the Question of Settlement Effort – San Francisco attorney David McMahon of Barger & Wolen on the firm’s Litigation Management & Attorney Fee Analysis Blog
• Supreme Court Declines to Hear Key Eminent Domain Case – Irvine lawyer Rick Rayl of Nossaman on the firm’s California Eminent Domain Report
• The Parade of PHI Security Breaches: Escalating Enforcement Activity by Attorneys General – Most Recently in Indiana – New Jersey attorney Alain Leibman on Fox Rothschild’s White Collar Defense & Compliance
• Federal Court Rejects Industry Plea to Delay EPA Greenhouse Gas Rules – Cleveland lawyer Joe Koncelik of Frantz Ward in his Ohio Environmental Law Blog
• Dementia Made Worse by Smoking & Fish Oil Not Helping – Las Vegas attorney Tim Titolo on his Brain & Spine Injury Law Blog
• 12 Estate Planning Gifts to Your Family – Chapel Hill lawyer Greg Herman-Giddens of TrustCounsel PA in the firm’s North Carolina Estate Planning Blog
• How Asset Valuation and Appraisal Really Work (or Better than Rochefort on Midway) – Chicago attorney Joshua Glazov on his blog, Construction Law Today
• Who suggests we murder Iowa’s Constitution? – West Des Moines lawyer Steve Lombardi on his blog, The Iowa Edict