. . . is what my colleague Eric Brodie calls this article, in which I am interviewed about the pros and cons of legal blogging.
People are Talking . . .
A Top 50 Blog? I Always Thought So
During the Olympics, I read an interview with someone who said he just wanted to be the Michael Phelps of something, anything at all. While my aspirations may not run quite that unrealistically high, its certainly fun to be recognized as one of the top 50 of anything. LexisNexis has announced its list of the…
Gone Fishing – Not Really
Passing Along an Interesting Blog: Number One
One interesting thing about the LaRue case is the amount of blog commentary it inspired. For me personally, the best aspect of that wasn’t so much what other bloggers had to say about the subject, but more the fact that the discussions brought some blogs to my attention that I had not previously been aware…
The Governance of Retirement Plans in the Aftermath of the Subprime Meltdown
Fellow blogger Susan Mangiero and I are quoted extensively in a very interesting article, available here, in the January issue of the Institutional Real Estate Letter. The article, titled Investing in Good Governance, focuses on one of – if not the only – potential silver linings in the whole subprime mortgage mess, namely the…
SmartMoney on the Practicalities of Complying With ERISA
This is a law oriented blog, obviously, and one of the things that is always worth remembering is that the complicated legal issues played out in the cases discussed here have real world implications for plan participants and for businesses trying to provide benefits to their employees. A nice reminder of that is here,…
Looking Under the Hood of Pension Plan Investments
Word comes to me today from Susan Mangiero, who pens the Pension Risk Matters blog (that phrase reminds me just a little of one of my favorite move phrases of all time, “a lot of alliteration from anxious anchors”), that I am quoted in an interesting article by Liz Peek in the New…
A Top Blog at the LexisNexis Insurance Law Center
Some years back, I was on a job interview when I was asked a question by a senior partner in a fairly good sized firm. When I began my answer with the comment that I was loathe to brag, he interrupted me to say that it was a job interview, so if there was ever…
Scott Turow on the Billable Hour
I’m really veering off topic here on today’s post, although I have in the past managed to post about the billable hour system and link it to the question of how policyholders should pay their lawyers in insurance coverage disputes. Today, though, I won’t even rely on that fig leaf, preferring instead to just pass…
Me and LaRue, and Business Insurance Too
There is an article in Business Insurance magazine this week, the June 25th issue, on the Supreme Court accepting review of the LaRue decision, in which I am quoted. The article is here – subscription required – and if you read it, you will note that it ends on my comment that I expect the…