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Thursday, January 19, 2023

Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon Makes Its WIld Way to ERISA

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The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon trope has become so omnipresent that I guess it should not be surprising that a connection between ERISA and ...
Sunday, December 25, 2022

Xmas Music, Etc. - 2022 Edition

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Merry Christmas!  In the past, I've done some ERISA and non-ERISA posts with some Holiday music and other Holiday-themed nuggets.  Somet...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

401(k)s in Jeopardy?!?

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As noted previously , IRAs have made their way onto Jeopardy.  Now, while IRAs got their own column all to themselves, 401(k)s apparently (w...
Saturday, December 3, 2022

Tim Conway's 35-Year-Old Orphan as . . . Independent Fiduciary?!?

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So I was trolling the internet and I came upon Tim Conway as the 35 year-old orphan .  I think in the annals of television Tim C...
Friday, October 21, 2022

Shark Tank and 401(k)s/IRAs

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There's a disturbing aspect of Shark Tank, which is generally a great show (but may have Jumped the . . . ahem . . . Shark* when it did ...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

SNL and 401(k)s - SNAP!

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With increasing frequency, 401(k) plans get prominently mentioned in pop culture.  And I've noticed that in the mainstream press economi...
Sunday, August 14, 2022

Breaking Bad, Breaking Legs, Breaking HR Rules, Breaking My Heart (just a bit)

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So a central part of my life over more than a decade is about to end.  On Monday, we get the last episode of Better Call Saul.  The Breaking...
Friday, August 5, 2022

A "Search Party" Finds the Pillaging of an Employee Benefit Plan

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Sometimes, ya gotta listen really carefully to find ERISA references in unexpected places.  In the once-promising Search Party, on HBO Max b...
Saturday, July 2, 2022

SNL's Hobson's Choice - 401(k) Contributions or Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets

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I happened to find my way to an old Saturday Night Live bit, and was surprised to see my practice area find a way to wheedle its way in.  Le...
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Some "Cause" for Checking Out a New "Urban" Legend

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Well, THIS didn't go well, did it?  Another high-profile for-cause termination now hits the world of sports and entertainment.   Not sur...
Friday, December 10, 2021

Can I See the Baroness von Hellman's Form of Employment Contract?

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So "Cruella" with Emma Stone is certainly an unexpected joy.* To those who say it's the distaff counterpart to "Joker&qu...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

A Metal Christmas Via the . . . Chipmunks?

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Well, here we go again for a Holiday note with <shudder> no ERISA component. For prior non-ERISA entries during the Holiday Se...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Maxwell's Not So Smart

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As we head into the Ghislaine Maxwell trial (it certainly has been quite the trials arc we're in), let us not forget the connection (in ...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Control: Let's Take It from Britney to . . . VCOCs?

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OK, I admit it.  I like Britney Spears.  I like her music, and she seems (or at least at one time seemed) very nice.  I thought South Park n...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Gary Gulman, . . . ADA Expert?!?

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So we just saw Gary Gulman earlier tonight.  We've been fans of his for what seems like centuries, ever since his initial appearances on...
Saturday, November 20, 2021

Pension Investing for "Succession" Planning

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ERISA practitioners have long known that pension money is a (if not the) main source of investment in the global capital markets. ERISA mo...
Friday, November 12, 2021

ESPN's Max Kellerman on Aaron Rodgers and HIPAA

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During  the November 4, 2021 installment of ESPN's Keyshawn, JWill and Max , we get a well-placed HIPAA reference from Max Kellerman reg...
Wednesday, November 10, 2021

Body Heat - Not About ERISA but About . . . the Rule Against Perpetuities?!?

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Previously, I've pointed out movies that are ERISA-centric, with my favorite example being Wall Street (a pension-overfunding movie*). ...
Tuesday, November 9, 2021

Working at a Pension Fund Goes Straight into the Toilet at SNL

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During the November 6, 2021 episode of Saturday Night Live, we are treated (if that's the right word) to a bunch of guys, and their inne...
Sunday, April 18, 2021

From CIGNA v. Amara to . . . Leo Moracchioli?!?

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Some things confuse me.  Like how I and the rest of the world (the DOL excluded) could've missed CIGNA v. Amara's eventual surcharge...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

Nobody Can Beat a 401(k) for the Russian Mob (except maybe Bob Odenkirk)!

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[originally posted 4/15/21 - typographical error later corrected] OK, so I go to “Nobody” (that’s right: f COVID, now that I'm double-va...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

From Spic and Span to SPAC and Spam - Maybe With an ERISA Angle?

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Well, the flavor du jour is clearly special purpose acquisition companies ("SPACs").  It's becoming pretty apparent they they ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers Are . . . Diversified 401(k)s?!?

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I had to laugh while reading the yahoo!sports commentary  on the wins by the Bucs and Packers that have set up a truly epic Conference Champ...
Thursday, December 24, 2020

Bad Cyber Actors Find Their Way to Hollywood ERISA Plan

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One of the main ERISA plans for our friends in Hollywood is allegedly at the center of a new cyber breach.  The complaint in Gilbert v. AFTR...
Monday, December 21, 2020

A Holiday Gift from Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin

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Holiday time has returned, and I want again to do a post devoid of an ERISAn theme.  In the past I've focused on my own favorite Xmas so...
Friday, November 27, 2020

Bruce Willis Promotes Retirement Savings

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So what is it with Bruce Willis, maybe my all-time fave? In Live Free or Die Hard, he battles Timothy Olyphant's* Thomas Gabriel in ord...
Saturday, November 21, 2020

ADEA or A/D-EA? - the AC/DC in Employment Act of 2020

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  I will choose to remember an otherwise horrific 2020 as the AC/DC in Employment Act ("A/D-EA").  I've been listening to AC/D...
Saturday, October 3, 2020

How Not to "Gett" Out of a Multiemployer Plan

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Sometimes the dissolution of the marriage between an employer and a multiemployer plan can end in a messy divorce .   In American Federation...
Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Dividend Equivalent Rights II, the 409A Sequel; and Toy Story 3, the Oscar-Nominated Sequel

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  [originally posted in 2011; see note at end below]   DIVIDEND EQUIVALENT RIGHTS - THE 409A SEQUEL   General Background   Dividend equi...
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Monday, June 29, 2020

Idris Elba Took Your 401(k)

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I just came across a dose of retirement-related reality that crept into an (indeed "The" ) Office over a decade ago.  During some ...
Saturday, June 6, 2020

Slayer, Part II - The Karavas File

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I've previously commented on (what I think are interesting) developments regarding so-called "slayer" statutes and the eff...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

A Hater CARES Maybe Too Much While Swimming with the Sharks

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I watched an old Shark Tank segment the other day.  The guy with the Hater dating app, in chronicling his path, noted how, among the things ...
Sunday, April 19, 2020

Planning for Education in the Ozarks

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So it looks like drug-dealing money-laundering accountants in the Ozarks take advantage of tax incentives to plan for their children'...
Sunday, April 12, 2020

"The Good Place" to Retire

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Well, we just finished watching the single most intelligent television show ever - The Good Place.  Yup.  Number One.  Now this is not to sa...
Friday, November 22, 2019

Disney Meets Rocky in a Tale of ERISA Litigation?

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Only here could you get a strained connection between Disney and Rocky in the guise of an ERISA discussion. Years ago, I posted about ho...
Friday, July 12, 2019

Secretary Acosta - Another One Bites the Dust

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Saw Bohemian Rhapsody and really liked it. I get it that there's plenty of fake news wrapped up in the movie, but . . . so what? Did yo...
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