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Video Transcript: Hi, my name is Larry Hirsch and I practice exclusively in the domestic relations group at Jaburg & Wilk. How Much Will I Receive in Spousal Maintenance? Talking about spousal maintenance, the great “gray area” in Arizona, dissolution of marriage law. Spousal maintenance has no guidelines. That’s one of the keys that anybody ...

Does your business have a specific culture? Of course the answer is that it does whether it is conscious or not. For instance, at my firm we have the JW Way. It is a mission statement consisting of twenty one fundamentals. We believe that since making these fundamentals of our firm’s culture a conscious part of our firm it has improved what already was a ...

Arizona voters recently passed AZ Prop 206 – the Fair Wages & Healthy Families Act – by a significant margin. Prop 206 increases the minimum wage in Arizona to:$10.00 per hour on January 1, 2017 $10.50 per hour on January 1, 2018 $11.00 per hour on January 1, 2019 $12.00 per hour on January 1, 2020After 2020, Arizona’s minimum wage will inc...

Video Transcript: Hi, my name is Mervyn Braude. I am a lawyer at Jaburg & Wilk. I have practiced in the area of family law for many years and have been certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a Certified Specialist for the past seven or so years. Is a Trial my Only Option During a Divorce? In a number of cases a trial is necessary. Ultimately the judge will d...

Video Transcript: Hi, I’m Kraig Marton and I do employment law here in the firm. Why do you Call Employment Law Alphabet Soup? Employers have to know so much when they’re engaged in the field of employment law and there’s so many acronyms that are used that just learning them becomes difficult. There’s things like FMLA, there is USERRA ther...

Video Transcript: Hi, my name is Mervyn Braude. I am a lawyer at Jaburg & Wilk. I have practiced in the area of family law for many years and have been certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a Certified Specialist for the past seven or so years. What is Legal Decision Making? In the past, custody was the term we used to determine who it is that makes legal d...

Many people use the terms "mediation" and "arbitration" interchangeably, mistakenly believing they are two different words that mean the same thing.  While the English language is curiously replete with examples of different words with the same meaning (i.e. "car" and "automobile"), the words "mediation" and "arbitration" are not such a pair.   The confu...

Video Transcript: Hi, my name is Kraig Marton. I’m the head of the employment law section at our firm. As such, I represent both employees and small to mid-size employers in all kinds of employment matters. What is wrongful termination in Arizona? There are a lot of kinds of wrongful termination, the one most common, that most people have heard about is the ille...

Not sure what I mean by this? I will explain. I mean set goals, both short term and long term. And once you set the “goal,” which you should do in writing, write the action steps to get there. If you have no roadmap how can you expect to ever find that goal, let alone reach it. One roadmap you can follow is turning your goals into SMART goals:S...

Transcript of Arbitration Vs. Trial Hi, my name is Mitchell Reichman.  I’m a board certified specialist in Family Law and chair of the Family Law Department at Jaburg Wilk. Arbitration is different than trial in important ways. First, arbitration occurs in private offices and so the process is confidential. Another way it’s different is if arbitrators are...