My latest Theory Meets Practice column in CPR’s Alternatives magazine, How Legal and Dispute Resolution Professionals Can Manage AI Risks, explains how to assess and manage generative artificial intelligence (AI) risks. Many legal and other dispute resolution professionals use AI tools to draft documents, brainstorm ideas, organize information, and prepare for negotiations and mediations. There … Continue reading AI Risks Are Real – and Manageable →
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Cyber harassment in Arizona includes hostile online messages and coordinated attacks on someone’s reputation. Scottsdale residents need to understand what qualifies as online abuse under state law. 
A cyber harassment lawyer in Arizona can help you take action when harassment crosses legal boundaries. 
This article discusses how online harassment in Arizona is legally addressed and how early counsel from experienced lawyers can help.
Common Ways Cyber Harassment Happens Online
Cyber harassment often impacts emotional health or business operations. 
Scenarios usually include:

  • Individuals receiving persistent communication through social media, emails, or messaging apps that are abusive or threatening. 
  • Public forum posts

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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 events during the 2025-26 ski season prior to the Olympics. But she crashed just 13 seconds into her Olympic downhill run.

Vonn was airlifted off the mountain with a fractured leg, a devastating end to her comeback attempt. But in her Instagram post the next day, she wrote something that captures a fundamental truth about how we should approach both business…
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Article Summary

  • Even a pedestrian who is partially at fault for an accident with a motorist can be awarded compensation. 
  • Seeking medical attention is always advised for a pedestrian who has been struck by a distracted driver. Sometimes injuries aren’t felt immediately, and medical documentation is key to a compensation claim.
  • Insurance companies might pressure a pedestrian who has been hit by a distracted driver to settle quickly, before all of the evidence and medical records are assembled.

Texting while driving is a common vice for motorists. Statistics indicate nearly half of all drivers admit to texting while driving, which…
Continue Reading What To Do If You’re A Pedestrian Hit By A Distracted Driver Who Was Texting

Thank you to FOI Peter Reilly (Texas A&M) for compiling this list. Hal Abramson (Touro Law) Article: “AI Bots as Teachers: What is left for human law professors to offer in the classroom?” This article considers what bots can do as AI law teachers, how students are already using bots for learning, how to integrate … Continue reading ADR Scholarship Projects – February 2026 Edition →
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Time is up, and the enforcement infrastructure is now live. OCR’s complaint portal is open to 42 CFR Part 2, and Part 2 breach reporting is no longer a future workflow. A live portal changes behavior: it lowers the friction to file, increases complaint volume, and accelerates how quickly organizations receive the familiar “we have received a complaint, please explain” letter. If you are a Part 2 program, a QSO, or a lawful holder (including many HIPAA covered entities and business associates), this is the moment Part 2 stops being a policy project and becomes immediate operational exposure.
Continue Reading Time is Up! OCR Complaint Intake & Breach Reporting Go Live for 42 CFR Part 2

Some of those who read this blog live in Arizona. We have no caps on the recovery an injured patient can make, although the legislature has taken away other patient rights in an attempt to make it more difficult for an injured patient to win a malpractice suit. For those of you in other states, many of you are subject to caps on malpractice awards. In those states, no matter how badly you are injured or what the jury awards you, the jury award will be reduced to the cap amount for your state. Some of those caps are only…
Continue Reading Medical Malpractice Tort Reform Is A Fraud

Article Summary

  • Dog owners in Arizona are required by law to stay at the scene of the bite and exchange contact information with the person who was bitten.
  • Every dog bite needs to be reported to the county’s animal control unit, which will give quarantine instructions and manage a field investigation of the incident.
  • Emotional damages can and should be included in a compensation case following a dog bite.

Dogs are truly man’s best friend, but they’ve also got sharp teeth. And all too often, those teeth can leave marks. Even the friendliest of dogs may surprise an owner, act…
Continue Reading What Happens After You’re Bit By A Dog On Someone Else’s Property

If you weren’t available – even temporarily – to run your business, would it operate profitably in your absence?

Our November 2025 article, “

Multiple Owners? A Buy-Sell Agreement Is a Must

,” discussed how business co-owners can protect themselves and their company if one of them experiences a life-changing event (e.g., death or disability).

But what if it’s just you? What would happen to your company if, for a significant time, you weren’t there to run it? In this article we will take a look at some planning steps that can promote business continuity in your absence.

Importance.

Let’s…
Continue Reading Incapacity Planning for Business Owners: 14 Steps

Why do visitors leave your law firm website without calling? It’s not traffic or SEO—it’s validation. AI search changed the game: clients arrive ready to hire, but only if you can validate five critical concerns before they move on to the next attorney. Learn how solo and small firms are winning without Big Law budgets.
The post The “Validation Engine”: How Your Law Firm Website Can Convert the AI-Driven Client appeared first on LawLytics.
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To the unsuspecting investigator, it might be surprising how public safety workplace culture differs from a standard workplace.  For example, how often do most employees have 48-hour sleepovers with their co-workers?  Enjoy meals and watching television together?  Hold the life of another co-worker in their hands?  And how often does whether an employee follows a supervisor’s directive impact the health and safety of public citizens in danger?  These questions point to the heart of what makes public safety employees’ working environments both unique and challenging to navigate as an investigator. Public safety employee relationships are multi-dimensional and unique.  This blog…
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Media Contact: Barbara M. Fornasiero, EAFocus Communications; [email protected]; 248.260.8466

Royal Oak, Mich.—February 10, 2026— National employee benefits litigation and ERISA law firm, J.J.Conway Law, is pleased to announce that firm founder J.J. Conway has been named a 2026 LeadingLawyer, continuing his inclusion on the list for multiple consecutive years.

Conway was named a Leading Lawyer in the practice areas of class action and mass tort/plaintiffs inemployee benefits law, and insurance coverage law/insured. He has been included on the LeadingLawyers list since 2017. Less than 5% of all employers licensed to practice law in Michigan receive the distinction of beingnamed a…
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Slip and fall accidents in Arizona can leave victims facing serious injuries, unexpected medical bills, and uncertainty about who is responsible.

In most cases, compensation depends on proving that a property owner failed to address a dangerous condition and that this negligence directly caused the injury.

Working with experienced slip and fall lawyers in Arizona can make a critical difference in gathering evidence, establishing fault, and pursuing financial recovery.

According to the CDC, falls are one of the leading causes of nonfatal injuries in the United States, sending millions of people to emergency rooms each year.

Today, we’re taking a…
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Article Summary

  • You should contact a car accident attorney after an accident, even if you didn’t feel pain immediately after the accident. Back injuries are common in car accidents and can take time to be noticed.
  • It is difficult to determine an average payout from a back injury after a car accident, as a number of variables are factored into compensation, including the severity of the injury, if the injury impacts a person’s ability to work, and whether ongoing care is needed, to name a few.
  • Back injuries after car accidents can range from soreness to nerve damage to paralysis.

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The mission of the Maricopa County Bar Association is to be the place “Where the Legal Community Connects.” Ideally, that means connecting people with information—and connecting people with people.
After all, the legal profession is built on relationships.  We learn from one another, refer cases to one another, challenge one another’s thinking, and—at our best—hold one another accountable to shared professional standards.
Continuing Legal Education (CLE) has long been one of the places where those relationships are formed and reinforced.  As CLE has increasingly moved online, access and convenience have improved. At the same time, we have lost…
Continue Reading Camera Optional, Attention Required: Rethinking How Lawyers Learn Together

Undercover Officers and Reckless Driving Charges

If you’ve been charged with reckless driving, racing, or criminal speeding in Arizona especially after interacting with what looked like another “regular driver”, your first reaction might be:
“That’s entrapment.”
We hear that all the time.
But in most cases, it’s not entrapment under Arizona law.
Let’s break down why.
Undercover Officers on Arizona Roads
Law enforcement agencies in Arizona frequently use undercover vehicles in traffic enforcement operations. These vehicles often include high-performance models like:

  • Ford Mustangs
  • Chevrolet Camaros
  • Dodge Chargers
  • Other sport-styled vehicles

To the average driver, they look like another car on…
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