AI is extraordinary. As I wrote not long ago, professionals who refuse to integrate these tools are already falling behind. AI compresses hours of research into minutes, drafts documents that used to take half a day, and…
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/ Electronic Discovery, Privacy, Science, Computers, & Technology
Never assume the person you’re speaking with already understands what you want from the conversation or relationship. Dropping a hint or sending a vague email is indirect and unlikely to help you get what you’re looking for. You…
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/ Law Firm Marketing
If you’ve served in the military and experienced discrimination, adverse employment action, or other retaliatory action such as job or promotion denial, cuts in pay or benefits, demotion, or a failure by your employer to return…
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/ Civil Remedies, Labor & Employment Law, Military Law
There is a moment all professionals know, even though we never talk about it. You are working. You could cut the corner on the project in front of you. You could let the small thing slide. You could tell yourself it doesn’t…
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/ Business Organizations, Commercial Law & Contracts
If your business employs W-2 workers, chances are you’ve dealt with a wage garnishment. They’re common and can be confusing, especially when something doesn’t seem right and your employee is asking why the deductions haven’t…
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/ Civil Procedure, Labor & Employment Law
The energy of a workplace is not an accident. It is a direct reflection of the people in it, and more specifically, the attitudes those people choose to bring through the door every single morning. Science has long confirmed…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law
Arthur Brooks draws a distinction that should make every professional stop and think. There are two fundamentally different categories of problems in the world, and confusing one for the other is one of the most common mistakes…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
It is March, which means both the men’s and women’s NCAA basketball tournaments are in full swing. What makes March Madness so compelling, beyond the upsets and buzzer-beaters, is that it is a masterclass in team dynamics played…
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/ Business Organizations, Labor & Employment Law, Law Practice Products & Services
A recent Ninth Circuit decision, Roman v. Commissioner (Mar. 18, 2026), reinforces how narrow the tax-free treatment of settlement proceeds is. In most cases, settlement payments are taxable unless they clearly compensate for…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Personal Injury, Taxation
Mentoring is one of the most powerful things you can do in your career, and most people aren’t doing it. Not really. They’ll grab coffee with a younger colleague once a quarter, offer a vague word of encouragement, and call it…
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/ Law Practice Products & Services
Let’s get something straight: the people who refuse to adopt new technologies damage their businesses and fall behind. In this moment that technology is artificial intelligence and those not integrating it are already losing. AI…
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/ Business Organizations, Law Practice Products & Services, Science, Computers, & Technology
Understand that the idea beats the execution. Every time. We live in a culture obsessed with hustle, with grind, with the relentless optimization of how you do things. But none of that matters if what you’re doing isn’t worth…
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/ Commercial Law & Contracts
Something that separates successful professionals from those who plateau is that the most effective people aren’t always the ones who are technically right. But many times, the people who are right walk away empty-handed because…
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/ Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Business Organizations
In the current Winter Olympics, Lindsey Vonn was a feel-good story about 41-year-old ski racer making a remarkable comeback from partial knee replacement surgery and retirement from the sport in 2019. She even won two downhill…
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/ Art, Entertainment, & Sports Law, Business Organizations
In a recent conversation I had with a long-time friend and client I learned that despite him being in a successful business built through hard work, he is restless and wants to make a change but is scared to do so. I believe…
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