When I started this series of posts that count down the most popular posts on my blog in 2024, I called back, nostalgically, to the old days when radio disc jockeys would count down the most popular songs of the past year and play them, one after the other, over the course of a day or two. Back then, everything took place in real time and not internet time, and thus those countdowns always finished as scheduled and advertised.

Here, though, in the world of the blog, time is more malleable. While I meant to finish the countdown of the most popular posts from 2024 at least during the first month of 2025, time has shown that plan to have been little more than the idyll daydream of an eternal optimist. Not only did actual client work and court hearings alter the schedule, but so too did new legal developments over the past few weeks, which I also wanted to blog about, thereby taking up time that would otherwise have been spent on my countdown of the top blog posts from 2024.

Oh, well. I at least know, since we have now counted down to the third most popular post from 2024 on this blog, that one way or the other, this countdown will conclude in the second month of the new year. And with that, here is the third most popular post on this blog in 2024, “Loper, Chevron and the (Underrated) Value of Predictability,” which, unsurprisingly and perhaps predictably (get the joke?), addressed the impact that the demise of Chevron deference, and with it the decrease in predictability for regulated entities, will likely have on ERISA governed entities.