[JamesBarney]

5-6 years ago enterprise guidelines preventing LINQ/lambda's were more common. Current C# practices for enterprise companies(familiar with 6+ fortune 500's, have not seen or heard of them being banned in the last 4 years) definitely allow lambdas and LINQ.

The "required brackets" is more common but I think it's a good rule :). Readability is only slightly hindered by the extra brackets, but I've seen quite a few errors from

if(shibboleth)

    DoSomething();

    DoSomethingElse();