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Never assume the person you’re speaking with already understands what you want from the conversation or relationship. Dropping a hint or sending a vague email is indirect and unlikely to help you get what you’re looking for. You need to understand that nobody is inside your head. The colleague you casually mentioned a referral opportunity to is not sitting at h...

Phoenix, Arizona (May 5, 2025) - Phoenix law firm Jaburg Wilk has twenty two attorneys named as either 2026 Southwest Super Lawyers or 2026 Rising Star. The 2026 listing of Southwest Super Lawyers Includes fourteen partners – Neal Bookspan – Real Estate; Mervyn Braude – Family Law; Roger Cohen - Business Litigation; Ian Fischer – Civil Litigation, Defense...

Many professionals wear exhaustion like a badge of honor. They are always available, always grinding, always the last one to leave albeit figuratively.  In an era when the office follows you everywhere on your phone and laptop, you can grind. Anyone who has been that person can tell you that it is not something to be proud of. It is something to fix. To sustain a ...

If you’ve served in the military and experienced discrimination, adverse employment action, or other retaliatory action such as job or promotion denial, cuts in pay or benefits, demotion, or a failure by your employer to return you to the same position after employment, you may have legal rights under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act ...

There is a moment all professionals know, even though we never talk about it. You are working. You could cut the corner on the project in front of you. You could let the small thing slide. You could tell yourself it doesn’t really matter, because who would ever know? That moment is, in many ways, the most important moment of your professional life because your ch...

If your business employs W-2 workers, chances are you’ve dealt with a wage garnishment. They’re common and can be confusing, especially when something doesn’t seem right and your employee is asking why the deductions haven’t stopped. This article explains what a wage garnishment is, why employers usually can’t stop one on their own, and what to do if a cr...

The energy of a workplace is not an accident. It is a direct reflection of the people in it, and more specifically, the attitudes those people choose to bring through the door every single morning. Science has long confirmed what most of us already know, intuitively, emotions spread. When one person on a team leads with enthusiasm, optimism, and genuine warmth, tho...

Arthur Brooks draws a distinction that should make every professional stop and think. There are two fundamentally different categories of problems in the world, and confusing one for the other is one of the most common mistakes professionals make. A complicated problem is hard, but it is ultimately knowable. It can be mapped, modeled, and solved with enough technic...

A recent Ninth Circuit decision, Roman v. Commissioner (Mar. 18, 2026), reinforces how narrow the tax-free treatment of settlement proceeds is. In most cases, settlement payments are taxable unless they clearly compensate for physical injury or sickness. Missing that distinction can be costly. The Core Rule: Physical Injury Required Under IRC § 104(a)(2), settle...

It is March, which means both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are in full swing. What makes March Madness so compelling, beyond the upsets and buzzer-beaters, is that it is a masterclass in team dynamics played out on a national stage. Every year, highly recruited rosters full of individual talent get sent home early by teams that simply play ...