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
It’s the first Friday of the Year of the Horse, making it time for the first Five Favorites for Friday post of the year. As a reminder, every Friday, I do an entry in this series, each of which covers five topics, posts, articles, podcasts or videos that caught my attention over the preceding week
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
Boxing Day is my favorite post-holiday holiday, similar in many ways but better than the day after Thanksgiving, because the latter has, over the years, been overtaken by pressure to either shop or get started on end of the year rushes for work. Boxing Day, at least for me, suffers from none of that.
Boxing
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
Busy, busy week. I don’t know who thought it was a good idea to put Thanksgiving in the fourth quarter but they probably should have given a little more thought to whether a three day week in the middle of the last quarter of the year really makes sense.
Oh well, as I pointed out
