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PHOENIX, Ariz. (12/21/2018) – The Phoenix Business Journal announced their choices of the 2018 Best Places to Work companies. Jaburg Wilk was honored in the small employer category. The program recognizes companies with excellent employee morale, high employee engagement and retention. The majority of a company’s employees need to participate in a confiden...

Over the past few years if you have read my blog, you may have read about having a checkup for you and - if you have one - your business. This does not involve the doctor, but it does involve all the other professionals in your personal and business life. Based on the feedback that I receive each year, I have decided to make this topic an annual tradition. Some of ...

With technology invading almost every aspect of our life, intellectual property rights are valuable and complex.  While traditional assets are usually easy to identify, IP assets are not.  Successful business owners and managers know that identifying a problem and solving it is at the heart of maintaining profitability and providing a superior service or ...

As we head into the end of the year it is a good time to reflect on the past year and plan for the coming year. Was your 2018 a success? If not, will you have goals and a plan in place to try to reach those goals for 2019? Whether your year was or was not a success, have you ever thought about how you define success? We all look at success differently. For one pers...

Holiday parenting time issues are extremely common.  They often create strong emotional responses from each parent because not only is it their parenting time, but also it frequently includes extended family members visiting or who have traveled to see the children. The holidays are stressful enough without parenting time issues and an ounce of prevention can go ...

Both real estate professionals and laypersons oftentimes are confused by the differences between covenants and conditions. In its simplest terms, a “covenant” is an agreement to do or to not do something. Covenants are unconditional promises found in contracts, and the failure of a party who makes such an agreement to abide by its terms will entitle the...

Consistency and organization matter. The idea is to have a plan and put it into place. What that plan is and how you execute it will be different as it depends on you, your business, and how you like to work. For instance, I use a handwritten to do list, but also rely on calendaring and tasks in Outlook. This can result in redundancy, but with some of the types of ...

The only person who can limit your imagination is you. What I mean is that if you think there are limits regarding what you can do - or accomplish - you will encounter self-created and self-fulfilling prophesies. If you think about this, you will know it’s true. Negative thinking stops positive momentum. It doesn’t matter whether it’s me thinking ...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (011/28/2018) – Nichole Wilk, an attorney at the Phoenix law firm of Jaburg Wilk, was recently named to the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League Arizona. The Arizona regional office of ADL was established in 1983. They are one of the premier civil rights, human relations organizations in the state and provide an ongoing and dynamic cou...

The Holding In Doneson v. Farmers Ins. Exch., 2018 WL 4781382 (Ariz.App. Oct. 3, 2018), an insurance bad faith case, the Arizona Court of Appeals upheld an exclusion precluding MedPay benefits “if workers’ compensation benefits are required,” despite the Insured’s reimbursement of the workers’ compensation insurer. The Takeaways...