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Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that eighteen of their partners have been included in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America and an additional six attorneys have been included in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch.  Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide t...

Litigation can be expensive and time-consuming. Sometimes, the disputes that arise during a lawsuit have little to do with who is ultimately right or wrong. Instead, the parties spend time arguing over what documents must be produced, whether someone can amend a complaint, or whether a subpoena goes too far. Beginning January 1, 2027, a new Arizona court rule will...

Jerry Garcia once said, “You ain’t gonna learn what you don’t wanna know.” It sounds like something you’d hear in a parking lot before a Grateful Dead show, and maybe it was. But the more I think about it, the more it strikes me as one of the truest things anyone has said about learning. Information is everywhere. Teachers, mentors, data, and feedback are...

There’s an old saying, credited to so many people over the years that I’ve stopped trying to figure out who said it first, that the harder you work the luckier you get. I’d tweak it a bit. Hard work doesn’t make you lucky, but it puts you in the path of luck far more often than sitting still ever will. When I look back at the clients I’ve gained over my c...

That’s the thing, you walk out your front door and you have no idea what will happen. You don’t know who you’ll sit next to, who you’ll be introduced to, or whose path is about to cross yours for thirty seconds that turn out to matter more than a year of scheduled meetings. Most professionals treat this uncertainty as a reason to stay home, to skip the even...

Early in my career I noticed that whenever I was avoiding a decision, it usually wasn’t because I didn’t know what to do. It was because I knew exactly what to do and didn’t want to do it. The hard conversation with a client about a case that isn’t going the way they hoped. Telling a partner their strategy has a problem. Cutting ties with someone who isn’...

I have watched people mistake civility for softness many times, and it is one of the more expensive misreading’s a professional can make. Being kind to a colleague, a partner, or opposing counsel does not mean you have surrendered your judgment, your position, or your resolve. It means you have chosen a way of operating that will cost you nothing and often buys y...

I ask a version of the question “what lights you up?” to younger attorneys, friends, and clients all the time. This is not what pays the bills, not what your resume says you’re good at, not what your parents or your professors told you made a respectable career. What actually lights you up. Most people don’t initially have an answer to the question because ...

For the past few years, businesses and individuals using generative AI to draft contracts, marketing copy, articles, and correspondence have operated under a comfortable assumption: no one can really tell what came from a person and what came from a machine; and even if they could, ownership of the result belongs to whoever typed the prompt. Both assumptions are wr...

Making the right decision feels like the finish line, but it’s really just the starting gun. I have watched attorneys agonize over which case strategy to pursue, which path to recommend to a client, as if the correctness of the choice itself was the whole job. It isn’t. The decision is only half of it. What happens after you decide, how you execute, how you com...