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
This week’s Five Favorites is very ERISA heavy. Sometimes that’s just the way the world spins, as there is a lot going on with retirement plans and ERISA litigation, even at the Supreme Court. A lot of it touches on some of my favorite topics, such as the role of the jury trial in ERISA
I am determined to finish my countdown of my ten most popular posts of 2025 while we are still within sight of the beginning of the year – in other words, before the calendar flips over to February.
So with that said, I am taking a break from drafting a number of complaints that I
There’s a lot of good content out there these days on the subjects that I care enough to write about here or on LinkedIn: AI and the practice of law, AI and insurance, ERISA litigation and exposures, insurance industry developments, and a number of other topics. I could have easily identified and included way more
And their off! The old racing call seems like a good fit for the first week of a new business year, as everything and everyone that was put to the side for the last two weeks of December comes racing back onto the desktop.
And so it has been as well with articles, blog posts
So much to choose from to write about this week, but I am, by my own rules for this series of posts, limited to five topics. I noted last week that there was a risk I would beat holiday jokes into the ground this month, and here I go again, starting with an article about
For this week’s Five Favorites for Friday, I have a full stocking of gifts (too early for Xmas allusions? Maybe, but I was in New York for work and saw the Rockefeller Center Tree, which inspired that lede). Let’s get right into opening them up (and yes, I will probably beat that gag to death
Financial expert turned professional writer Susan Mangiero has a new article out on the issue of adding alternative investments to 401(k) plans. It provides an excellent summary of the issues and is particularly helpful if you are new to the topic – it will get you up to speed quickly.
I make a guest appearance
This week, I cheated. I have known since Tuesday that I wasn’t going to have time to either blog or post on LinkedIn this week on even a small portion of the articles, ideas, podcasts and presentations that were crossing my desk and catching my eye. So I started writing this week’s Five Favorites for
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