I am continuing with the countdown of my top ten most popular blog or LinkedIn posts of 2025, and we have now made it all the way to number four. For those of you new to the countdown, you can find the rules of the contest here.

The fourth most popular post of 2025 is one I am very fond of, because it draws on my experience litigating a range of cases in a variety of areas over the past thirty years. In it, I discuss how my past life as a patent and IP litigator (which was at least a third of my practice running up to the Wall Street collapse in 2008, at which time ERISA class action defense and related litigation arising out of the downturn swallowed up every spare minute I had) can help us figure out the way forward for defanging the boom in ERISA class action litigation.

With that introduction, the fourth most popular post on my blog in 2025 was this one: “Déjà vu All Over Again! What Patent Trolls Can Teach Us About Tackling Problems in the ERISA Class Action Industry.“