Last year, I did a top ten countdown of the ten most popular posts on this blog in 2024, inspired by how radio DJs in my youth would count down the top 100 songs of the year to close out the year. It was a lot of fun and people seemed to enjoy it, so I am doing it again this year.

However, this year, I am changing the rules of the contest a little bit. First, the pool of competitors has been expanded from just blog posts to also include LinkedIn posts and articles, so that the countdown is now of my top ten blog posts, LinkedIn posts and articles on LinkedIn in 2025.

Second, last year’s countdown was solely based on numbers – in other words, the most popular post finished at number one in the countdown, the second most popular post finished at number two in the countdown, and so on down the line. This year, a more subjective element is being added to the judging as well, sort of like the way Soviet judges would put their thumbs on the scale in ice skating or gymnastics judging in the old days, even though the results were supposedly objective and mathematical. So in effect, standings in the countdown will be based on two elements – the first strictly numerical in terms of readers, the second subjective, in terms of quality or interest value, in the eyes of the judges (i.e., me).

So without further ado or introduction, let’s get right to the countdown. Here is the tenth most popular blog post, LinkedIn post or article on LinkedIn for 2025, which was my blog post titled “Best Practices for ERISA Plan Sponsors and Fiduciaries in a Changing World: Handling Vendor Contracts.” As the title suggests, it was part of my series covering the need for ERISA plan sponsors and fiduciaries to modernize their practices, and covered the art of negotiating and interpreting vendor contracts in the ERISA space.

You can find my Tenth Most Popular post of 2025 here.