My dream was to be the first American Pope. I ended up an FMLA blogger...

As a young tyke growing up on the South Side of Chicago, I regularly reminded my mom and dad that when I grew up, I planned to be the editor of the Chicago Tribune and a second baseman for a major league baseball team, right before I became the first American Pope.

Foolish as I was, I didn’t lack confidence. Can you tell?

As you might have predicted, I fell woefully short of my three rather ambitious goals above. No sweat, cause little did I know at the time that I would reach even greater heights — some 30 years later, in 2016, I would be named to the ABA Journal‘s Blogger’s Hall of Fame!

Seriously, did you even know something like the Blogger’s Hall of Fame actually existed? Surely not my mom who, with an authentic Catholic soul, is still holding out hope I might rekindle that ambition for the Papacy!

That was far too long an intro to announce that, for the 6th straight year, our FMLA Insights blog has been selected as one of the Top 100 Legal Blogs of 2016 by the ABA Journal! In its 10th Annual ABA Journal Blawg 100, we were only one of seven employment blogs to receive the honor.

I’m even more excited to announce (as forecasted above) that our blog was named to ABA Journal’s Hall of Fame! Though the honor includes no plaque in Cooperstown and no rambling acceptance speech, I am humbled by the fact that this tiny little FMLA blog has caught the attention of the finest attorneys and HR and leave professionals over the years, and that so many of you have come to rely on my advice when it comes to all things FMLA. I am extremely grateful for your support.

Despite this really cool Hall of Fame honor, we ain’t going anywhere — our FMLA blog posts will still come fast and furious! So, if you are not already subscribed to our blog, please enter your email in the box to the right on our home page so that our posts can be sent directly to your Inbox.

About the ABA Journal:

The ABA Journal is the flagship magazine of the American Bar Association, and it is read by half of the nation’s 1.1 million lawyers every month. It covers the trends, people and finances of the legal profession from Wall Street to Main Street to Pennsylvania Avenue. ABAJournal.com features breaking legal news updated as it happens by staff reporters throughout every business day, a directory of more than 4,000 lawyer blogs, and the full contents of the magazine.