It’s that time of the week again! As some of you know, every Friday I cover five of the many things that have crossed my desk over the week, but which I have not had time to write about yet,
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It’s that time of the week again! As some of you know, every Friday I cover five of the many things that have crossed my desk over the week, but which I have not had time to write about yet,…
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…
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…
About 24 years ago I won a trial on behalf of Liberty Mutual in an insurance bad faith action in which plaintiff’s counsel sought to multiply an underlying multimillion dollar judgment against the insured based on an alleged bad faith…
I wasn’t quite sure what to do about Five Favorites for Friday this week, given that today is an unofficial holiday, Black Friday. I couldn’t move it up a day, as that would require publishing it on an actual national…
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…
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…
Late Thursday night is one of my favorite times of the week. The house is quiet, the dog is snoozing on my feet, the football game is on the tube, and I have time to write this week’s Five Favorites…
ERISA litigation goes through phases and waves. It wasn’t that long ago that it seemed I was constantly litigating, in multiple cases, the distinction between so-called ministerial functions – which cannot support fiduciary liability – and fiduciary conduct. Here’s one…
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…