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Video Transcript My name is Kraig Marton and I work in Healthcare here at Jaburg & Wilk. Do healthcare professionals have to report legal trouble to their licensing board? It turns out that healthcare professionals have a duty to report certain things to their licensing board. What kind of charges must be reported? Any kind of felony must be reported, ag...

There is nothing more frustrating than learning that the technical or product information that you wrote, or the photographs that you took for your website have been stolen and used on someone else's website.  Sometimes the copying is so blatant that the other website looks just like yours! If a competitor steals your website content, it can do real damage to ...

There is a good chance you have never even heard of greenwashing. Yet, your company may be at risk by engaging in the practice of greenwashing. Wikipedia defines greenwashing as the practice of companies disingenuously spinning their products and policies as environmentally friendly. In today's world, "green" is good marketing, but saying your product is green whe...

Let's face it, some marketing ploys are pretty clever and some spam is brilliantly disguised as valid e-mail. There are many great reasons to register your trademark with the United States Patent & Trademark Office, including: Constructive notice nationwide of the trademark owner's trademark rights Preventing others from registering and limiting your geograp...

Maybe you have heard that the Internet is about to drastically change.  Maybe you have heard that by the middle of this year, domain names ending in .app, .web, .pizza, .shop, .hotel, .restaurant and over a thousand others will become available for public registration.   These new extensions are called generic top level domains, or gTLDs. If you are a br...

You are employed at Intel.  They decide to move the R&D facility to Utah and unless you move with your team, you are out of a job. However, your former spouse has a stable job in Tempe and has parenting time with the children one-half of the time and most certainly has no desire to give up his or her parenting time.  It is lose-lose situations like t...

In recent years it has become more common for divorcing spouses to agree to jointly engage one expert to value the marital interest in a business or professional practice.  While choosing one expert is not suitable for all situations, the potential benefits of using one expert include saving time in the process, reducing the cost of the valuation and increasi...

As far as the outcome is concerned, it should make no difference which party chooses to file the petition for divorce.  However, one of the parties is able to control the process, the person filing (known as the Petitioner) is ultimately able to control the initial portion of their dissolution case. Advantages of Being the Petitioner Firstly, at any proceedin...

In the State of Arizona, any and all property is presumed to be community property. However, property is characterized at the time of its acquisition and therefore, if you owned property prior to your marriage, it is and remains your separate property – unless you gifted same to your spouse, entered an agreement to transfer same to your spouse, or commi...

If you used to think that SOPA was a misspelling of soap, after January 18th, 2012 you know better. What is now being called, National SOPA Blackout Day, the internet was flooded with thousands of articles, hundreds of petitions and most chilling to many users - blocked websites. Wikipedia shut down its services for the day and Google's home screen icon contained ...