Acknowledgments

To my dear friends at the American Management Association who have guided, supported, and encouraged my writing and speaking engagements over the years, especially Stephen S. Power, senior acquisitions editor at AMACOM Books; Rosemary Carlough, vice president of marketing; and Nicole Morgenstern, Dave Summers, and Doug Sohn on the training/digital marketing side of the house. Thank you all for your ongoing friendship and partnership. I absolutely love working with you!

And to the finest legal team and legal minds in the business, who helped review select portions of this manuscript as it made its way through the various stages of development: Rich Falcone (no relation to the author), shareholder and employment litigation partner with Littler Mendelson in Costa Mesa, CA; Frank Melton, principal and labor employment attorney in the Los Angeles office of Jackson Lewis P.C.; Jacqueline Cookerly Aguilera, partner, labor and employment, and Kathryn McGuigan, counsel, labor and employment, with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP in Los Angeles; and Christopher W. Olmsted, shareholder in the San Diego office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C. I consider myself so fortunate to have partnered with you all on this third edition, and I benefitted tremendously from your guidance and counsel.