{"id":5832,"date":"2021-10-24T20:09:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5832"},"modified":"2021-10-24T20:09:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T00:09:21","slug":"the-meaningless-of-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5832","title":{"rendered":"The meaningless of awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I work in an industry that has a terrible reputation. Not the retirement plan industry, the legal industry. One of the big parts of the legal industry is where they create awards, sell ads in a magazine or just make money on awards. So with so many awards out there for Best Lawyer, I\u2019ve seen quite a few bad lawyers win these awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the worst ERISA attorneys I ever met (I worked for the third party administrator and she represented a mutual client), happened to win one because her law firm pt out a big ad in the Best Lawyers magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When people tout awards they won, I get suspicious if I haven\u2019t heard of the award or the award is tied to ads. Heck, the former managing attorney at my law firm that I derided for the past 11 years got a boatload of these top CEO awards and she shrunk the firm in half during the length of her 12-year reign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The point is when picking plan providers, don\u2019t get hung up on the awards they win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I work in an industry that has a terrible reputation. Not the retirement plan industry, the legal industry. One of the big parts of the legal industry is where they create awards, sell ads in a magazine or just make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/?p=5832\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class='st_sharethis' st_title='{title}' st_url='{url}' displayText='ShareThis'><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5833,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5832\/revisions\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therosenbaumlawfirm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}