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After several months of COVID and work frenzy, like many people, I decided to take a vacation. Any vacation taken during the WFH pandemic can quickly evolve into a working vacation and there are both good and bad aspects of that. Finding a place to safely travel to and safely stay has unique challenges during a global pandemic. Even taking a road trip, which seems ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (09/10/2020) Jaburg Wilk partner, Echo A. Reynolds, has been named to the Advisory Board of Directors of the Epilepsy Foundation of Arizona. Reynolds, a bad faith litigation and insurance coverage attorney at Jaburg Wilk, said “The Epilepsy Foundation provides medical, social, and community advocacy for Arizonans living with epilepsy. This advoc...

A few years ago, I read a quote that resonated with me. I happened upon the quote this week and had the same reaction. The quote is “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” This insightful statement is by Buckminster Fuller, and he is correct on many levels. We all have potential, but realizing that potential takes work. Think ab...

As hard as real estate agents, title companies, attorneys, and anybody else who drafts contracts, may strive for perfection in their drafting, it is not unusual for the finished product to include a provision that is ambiguous. Such ambiguity can result from a poor choice of words, or from an "honest mistake" made during the drafting process. According to Black's L...

For cost containment - or other reasons - attorneys are trying fewer civil cases to juries. Years ago, trial attorneys would easily try dozens of cases per year. Now, it is not uncommon for a “trial attorney” to try one or two cases per year. For good or bad, the nature of civil practice has shifted and discovery, particularly depositions, has, in many ways, b...

JW Way Fundamental #25: Candidly discuss, then align. "Healthy, respectful discussion creates better solutions. Discuss concepts without personal attacks. Check your ego and search for the best solution rather than proving you are right. Once a decision is made, be fully aligned and completely supportive of it."Relationships, whether they be work or person...

People generally don't go into business because they are good at running businesses. Many people go into business because they are passionate about something and they want to share that passion with the world. Whether it's food, fashion, music, technology, or something else, business owners are good at what they do. The mundane realities of running a business, howe...

Phoenix, AZ, (August 24, 2020) -- Jaburg Wilk is pleased to announce that 15 of their lawyers have been included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America and an additional 6 attorneys have been included in the 2021 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch. Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded ...

Teams are important. It takes people to have a team. For a team to perform optimally, each person must have a voice and be allowed to contribute. This has been on my mind in relation to a corporate client who, while having a management team, really has a top down decision-making process driven by a single person, the owner. I was asked to participate in a meeting o...

The Arizona Board of Regents governs Arizona's public university system, overseeing Arizona State University, Northern University of Arizona and the University of Arizona. The Board is required by law to establish uniform criterion for determining the residency status of students for tuition purposes. All three public universities employ the same procedures for det...