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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...

A recent Arizona Court of Appeals decision reinforces that Arizona courts will not automatically throw out non-competes and non-solicitation agreements. But the outcome is almost always depends on the specific facts. What the Case Was About A construction equipment salesperson signed a non-solicitation agreement, then left for a direct competitor and allegedly be...

Dolly Parton passed away at 80, and by last night my feed was already full of thoughtful quotes her fans refer to as “Dollyisms, repeated so many times they are remembered. That happens with people who spend seven decades telling the truth in a way nobody minds hearing. You don’t get quoted that much by accident. You get quoted that much because you kept saying...

The law firm of Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that Philomena "Mena" Patiño has been promoted to partner. Patiño focuses her practice in family law, representing clients in divorces, child custody disputes, and post-decree modification matters. Since joining Jaburg Wilk, she has built a reputation for compassionate, results-oriented advocacy on behalf of her ...

We tell ourselves a story about limits, and the story is almost never true. It holds you back even when you have talent or are in the right circumstance. This happens because of people’s fears. Fear is clever that way. It rarely announces itself. It shows up disguised as “I’m just being practical” or “now isn’t the right time,” and because it sounds s...

Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that Shareholder Micalann C. Pepe has been re-elected as a Senior Director on the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel's (FDCC) Board of Directors and has taken on an expanded set of national leadership appointments within the organization. Pepe was appointed Chair of the FDCC's Projects & Objectives Committee, which...