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Have you ever thought about this? Even if you have, how would you know? I once read a quote that said “the difference between the way a person treats the powerless and the powerful is as good a measure of human character as I know.” The quote is from Robert I. Sutton, who is a professor at Stanford. The quote reminds me of my first employer after law sc...

Micalann Pepe of Jaburg Wilk will present at the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel, Young Lawyer Division Fall CLE Seminar. The seminar will focus on strategies while litigation is ongoing, but has not proceeded to trial.  What: Insurance Coverage for Defense Attorneys   Speaker: Micalann Pepe  Other speakers will include Don Bivens of Snell & Wil...

On September 21, 2018, the Executive Council of the Family Law Section of the State Bar, past and present Family Law Judges, as well as experienced practitioners, gave 24 participants the opportunity to hone their skills in the Family Law Trial College.  The suggestions, thoughts, and ideas that were discussed benefit any Arizona family law attorney, rega...

PHOENIX, Ariz. (10/18/2018) – The law firm of Jaburg Wilk was pleased to be a sponsor of the Muscular Dystrophy Association’s 2018 Taste of the Town Scottsdale. For more than 65 years, the MDA has been committed to improving the lives of people living with muscular dystrophy and other neuromuscular diseases.  Larry Wilk, shareho...

How are you an expert? We all have things that we are really good at doing.  The possibilities are endless. You could be an expert in what you do for a living such as computer programming, medicine, plumbing or auto repair, or perhaps you are an expert at something like Sudoku, stamp collecting, video games or Star Wars trivia. Maybe you are an expert in ...

In recent years, federal courts across the U.S. have seen a fair share of copyright infringement lawsuits involving peer-to-peer networks such as BitTorrent. In these cases, the plaintiffs are typically feature film or adult film copyright owners who allege that numerous unknown defendants (sued as John or Jane Does) are liable for copyright infringement by downloa...

For writers of any legal briefs, there is hardly anything more frustrating than finally finding a case on point, in our jurisdiction, with a “correct” holding to support our argument, but unpublished.  More than 85% of the decisions in the 9th Circuit are unpublished.[i]   For the fiscal year 2017, in Division One of the Ar...

While Arizona judges had been making some parenting decisions in family law cases for many years, that recently shifted due to recent Arizona Court of Appeals decisions that have far reaching impacts on parents that cannot agree on decisions concerning their children.  In the past family law judges could appoint professionals, particularly mental health profes...

The Holding In Fisher v. USAA Casualty Insurance Company, 2018 WL 3804114 (Ariz. App. Aug. 7, 2018), a case arising from an underinsured motorist (“UIM”) arbitration, the Arizona Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court’s refusal to vacate an arbitration award because of an arbitrator’s alleged partiality. The Insureds knew about the A...

If you talk to anyone who has been a party to a lawsuit, they are almost certainly going to comment as to how expensive it was.  Unless an attorney is hired on a “contingency fee” basis – which is seldom an option in business-related cases, the client must pay his or her attorney based to prosecute or defend their case, based upon the time th...