It’s not just happenstance that this weekly round up section of my blog is called “Five Favorites for Friday.” It’s in honor of Elmo, who did not rap about the number four, or nine, but the number five. Thus, “Five Favorites for Friday.”
And so let’s get right to it, as there is a
I appreciate being named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer. I happen to know a lot of the lawyers on the list and have litigated against many of them. I know from their presence on the list that it’s the real deal.
But at the same time, I am never really all that comfortable broadcasting it and
My “Five Favorites for Friday” series is quickly becoming one of my favorite undertakings. It’s a terrific opportunity for me to go back over the stories and videos that have crossed my desk during the week, and think about what they mean for my practice, my clients and the readers of my blog. Hopefully, you
I talked briefly about withdrawal liability in my very first “Five Favorites for Friday” post, which you can find here. Because there is often so much money at stake, and because unions are aggressive in pursuing and claiming withdrawal liability payouts from departing employers, and because departing employers so want to not pay withdrawal
As I discussed in this earlier post just last Friday, I am now running a series of posts, each to be published on Friday, covering five articles of interest that I didn’t have time to write about – or write enough about – during the week just ending. This past week was busy and full
When all the AI hype and AI promoters were insisting that AI would eliminate lawyers and law firms, I said no, over two years ago – I explained in this post here, in June of 2023, that instead the history of technical adoption in lawyering demonstrated the opposite. I did note as well, however
I am launching a new series of posts on the blog, starting today, listing five topics from the week just ended that are worth paying attention to, but which any busy person might have missed during the preceding week. For each, I will include a link or two if you want to read more deeply
I was a guest last week on the Real Lawyers Podcast hosted by Kevin O’Keefe, one of if not the founding fathers of legal blogging. As we discuss in the podcast, I had come across a reference to blogging and Kevin (as well as his then new company, LexBlog) in an article and thought blogging
Fred Reish has an excellent article out on the technical and substantive aspects of the executive – and soon to be regulatory – efforts to open 401(k) plans to alternative investments, with a particular focus on the targeting (pun intended) of target date funds as the channel for bringing them into the investment holdings of
Insurance coverage lawyer Geoffrey Fehling had a great LinkedIn post concerning a Massachusetts court dismissing class action claims against Liberty Mutual because of the failure of plaintiffs’ counsel to identify and then name the correct Liberty Mutual affiliated insurance companies as defendants. I wanted to add three points to it which, in their absence, could