by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
October 14, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 1 I have a question for you about excessive attorney fees, and the only reason I am able to even discuss this matter is because of a strange coincidence that happened a few days ago in the Fresno...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
October 21, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 2 Last week we began a look at what can only be described as completely unjustifiable and excessive attorney billing practices. One glaring and common example is scheduling court appearances – in...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer
October 23, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “How can I deliver excellent customer service for you today?” “Did I provide you with exceptional customer service and satisfy all of your needs?” How often do we hear this nonsense?...
by Dennis Beaver | foreclosure
December 11, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver The real estate crisis has spared no city and few streets. Evidence of homes lost to foreclosure is within a 60-second drive of most people reading this column. Outright con artists have ripped off desperate...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, women, workplace
March 18, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver “Many employers see The Great Resignation as a chance to give their companies an enormous boost in employee morale and wellbeing by establishing true gender equity,” observes Christine Spadafor, Harvard educated lawyer, BBC...
by Dennis Beaver | contracts
April 29, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Have you recently purchased — or are you considering — a home or business alarm system? Does the alarm company want you to sign a long-term contract? If you have signed such a contract, can you get out of it if...
by Dennis Beaver | family law, lawyers, medicine, power of attorney, senior care
March 20, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver The stock market has recently been in a free-fall. America has not experienced this level of fear since the days of the polio epidemic, which, at its peak in the 1940s and 1950s would paralyze or kill over half a million people...
by Dennis Beaver | investment
October 25, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “I have received an invitation to attend a free real estate seminar put on by a company that flips homes but have never had any experience in buying or selling real estate. The TV show makes it look pretty easy to buy a house and...
by Dennis Beaver | homeowner's insurance, insurance claim, weather
October 27, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver
If you are shopping for homeowners insurance–or about to renew your policy with Farmers–you may wish to reconsider after reading our story. With 138 million dollars spent on television advertising in 2016, who hasn’t seen actor...
by Dennis Beaver | defamation, education, parenting
December 6, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver It might be cute to hear a three-year old sing, “As snug as a bug in a rug,” but there’s nothing cute at all about having your home infested with bed bugs. But that’s what “Rudy” and his family dealt with in July, 2019 when their...
