Attorney Dennis Beaver has practiced law for many years in Bakersfield, California.
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Beaver’s career in media began in the mid-1970s at another Bakersfield station while still a Kern County Deputy District Attorney. There he focused on legal affairs reporting, including exposing landlords violating California law. Beaver later moved to KBAK (Eyewitness News), working alongside Don Clark and Jackie Parks on the “29 On Your Side” segment. The team tackled issues such as landlord abuses, auto repair scams, and provided consumer education, including how to challenge credit card charges.
In addition to his work in local news, Beaver hosted weekend interview programs featuring local business people and political figures. Since the 2000 Presidential Election, Beaver has also been a regular panelist on Voice of America broadcasts.
A brush with cancer led this attorney to develop an AI entrepreneurship platform that saves time for professionals who bill by the hour and money for their clients — and it all began with sourdough bread.
July 27, 2026 • By Dennis Beaver
If you are being billed by the hour for professional services, now is the time to renegotiate, as AI has put the billable hour on life support.
In January 2024, during his recuperation from surgery and radiation treatment of thymoma — an extremely rare cancer — Los Angeles-based attorney Aaron Shechet, “wanted to do something for my wife and law partner, Leigh, who proved what being there ‘for better or for worse’ means. She said, ‘Make an app that helps me bake better sourdough.’
“So I built an app to take pictures of her sourdough bread — AI analyzes the picture and tells how to improve it. It came out so good that I released it on Android and Apple.”
Then an idea came to Shechet. “What if I could develop a platform that helps service providers, accountants, lawyers and other professionals use AI programs that would save them hours and result in significant cost savings to their clients?”…click to read more
Attorney Dennis Beaver has practiced law for many years in Bakersfield, California.