Best in Law Blogs : The LexBlog Network : November 21, 2011

Hey, you know what are great? Short weeks. Especially ones with Thanksgiving and a Packers game right in the middle. We start off this one with 156 posts hitting the LexBlog Network. As a highlight, Kendall Gray offers up his comments and advice to law students after a much-discussed story in the New York Times on law schools’ inability to prepare students to be lawyers.

• Hydraulic Fracturing and Gasland: Separating Fact from Fiction – New Orleans attorney Keith Hall of Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann on the firm’s Oil & Gas Law Brief
• Battle of the Branches: The Debate Rages on Regarding the Proper Breadth of Federal Cybersecurity Laws – Michael J. Lockerby, Marilee L. Miller and Ariel Fox Johnson of Foley & Lardner on the firm’s blog, Privacy & Security Source
• SEC Division Directors Testify Before Congress About Management and Structural Reforms – Washington, DC attorney William McGrath of Porter Wright on the firm’s Federal Securities Law Blog
• No Reasonable Expectation of Privacy in IP Address Information Rules Twitter-Wikileaks Court – Seattle intellectual property lawyer Tonya Gisselberg on her blog, Seattle Copyright Watch
• Mostly Dead Comments On Irrational Exuberance – Houston attorney Kendall Gray of Andrews Kurth on his blog, The Appellate Record
• Selling Your Company: Comparing Merger Structures – Seattle lawyer Kristi Lynn Darnell-Weichelt of DLA Piper on the firm’s blog, The Venture Alley
• Educational Degree is Not Marital Property Subject to Division in Divorce – Denver lawyer Steven Johnston of Pryor Johnson Carney Karr Nixon on his blog, Colorado Family Law Matters
• Congress and the Commission Look to Make FCC More Responsive and to Take Costs Into Account in Making New Rules – Will It Work? – Washington, D.C. lawyer David Oxenford of Davis Wright Tremaine in the firm’s Broadcast Law Blog
• Google Co-Founder Gives $500,000 to Wikimedia Foundation – Dallas lawyer Peter Vogel of Gardere Wynne Sewell on his Vogel Internet, Information Technology and e-Discovery Blog
• Welcome to Wonderland: Can Trust Be Your Guide? – Business advisor Mike Cook of AMJ Group on their blog, The Heart of Engagement