Soccer, Sick Leave, Sean Connery, Striking Dockworkers. Must Be…

… Wednesday’s JD Supra Buzz. Here’s what we learned in law news today:

Law is like soccer: the ball is always in play and there’s no time to rest (Fenwick & West) 

What NOT to do when you’re writing your estate plan (Davis Brown) 

Can employees take sick leave when they’re not sick? No, it’s not a trick question (Pullman & Comley) 

Sean Connery can’t survive in a Daniel Craig world. Yes, we’re talking about HIPAA (Davis Brown) 

The East and Gulf Coast dockworkers union is threatening to strike on October 1 (Venable) 

Would Bradley Birkenfeld’s $104 million whistleblower award be erased if he hadn’t revealed tax crimes? (Morvillo Abramowitz)

Maybe this guy’s problem isn’t his friends, but posting evidence of his crimes on Facebook in the first place (Lawyers.com) 

The Department of Justice will soon be coming out with guidance on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (Michael Volkov) 

The FDA is cracking down on “cosmeceuticals” (Winthrop & Weinstine) 

A lawsuit alleging debt collection fraud against more than 100,000 consumers was certified as a class action (Ballard Spahr) 

An expert witness is not entitled to appeal a ruling that rejected his testimony as unreliable (Manatt, Phelps & Phillips) 

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