Law Blog

During the first decade of my career, I had one formal mentor and several informal mentors. Most of my mentors were attorneys or judges, which makes sense given my chosen profession. Others were in different professions or businesses. The string running through all those relationships was the professional and life lessons I learned from each one, many of which I fo...

Arbitration is an underutilized tool in Arizona family law cases. Put simply, arbitration is a dispute resolution process where an agreed-upon third party—the arbitrator—resolves a family law dispute outside of a traditional courtroom. The parties jointly select a neutral, third party to consider the facts and evidence in the dispute, the arbitrator makes an aw...

Success comes from constantly assessing the results from actions you take and adjusting, depending on what is or is not working. If something you’re doing is not successful, you need to change it or try something new. The funny thing is that the flip side is the same: if something you’re doing is successful, it helps to tweak or change it to see if it can be ev...

You may not think it, but it is good to be the dumbest person in the room.  Knowing and acknowledging it to others lets you learn. This allows you an opportunity to learn what otherwise would be lost. The room may be full of people or just one other person. The point is all of us can learn no matter whether you view yourself as a leader or not. You know we all ar...

Phoenix, AZ (August 29, 2024) - Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that twenty of their partners have been included in the 2024 Edition of the Phoenix Magazine’s Top Lawyers list.  Jaburg Wilk would like to congratulate the following partners:Mark Bogard (Construction) Roger Cohen (Legacy) Ian Fischer – (Civil Law Litigation) Lauren Garner (Wills...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (08/26/2024) – Micalann C. Pepe was elected as a Director serving in the Board of Directors of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC) for 2024-2025 at their recent annual meeting.  Pepe is a partner in the insurance law department of Jaburg Wilk where she focuses her practice on bad faith litigation, insurance coverage, and civil...

Recently I was speaking with a young attorney who was lamenting the workload and hours the partners at his firm expected of him and talking about his time at night and on the weekends being his time, not theirs. This struck me.  When I was a young attorney, I expected to work hard and do whatever was asked of me as I learned a profession. I think that attitude and...

Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that 15 of their partners have been included in the 2025 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America and an additional 5 attorneys have been included in the 2025 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 to lega...

Each of us is a part of a group in relation to our work. You are a part of the company where you work.  And you are probably part of smaller formal groups comprised of you and co-workers, as well as part of other professional, industry, or similar groups outside of your company. In every group there is a dynamic of those who speak and those who generally don’t. ...

In Joseph Silence v. Shane T. Betts No. 1 CA-CV 23-0178, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed Maricopa County’s Superior Court’s decision and clarified how Proposition 209’s Savings Clause applies to garnished wages before the effective date of Proposition 209. The Takeaways The court clarified how Proposition 209 affects ongoing wage garnishments that wer...