by Dennis Beaver | employment, investment
March 22, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Note: This is the second installment of Dennis Beaver’s March 8 column. “Your readers, Dennis, who want this to be the year they go into business for themselves, must have a very good answer to this question: If I fail, what...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, psychology, workplace
March 5, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver We all want to do well on the job, right? But how often do we get ourselves into a real pickle – instead of being thought of as a go to person, stay away from me is tattooed on our forehead. “Nobody wants to be in that category,”...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership
April 23, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “Office politics,” says Boston-based Karen Dillon, “is impossible to avoid. But it is manageable if you know what not to do. As author of the Harvard Business Review Guide to Office Politics, Dillon provides a wealth of accessible,...
by Dennis Beaver | education, law school, lawyers
March 9, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Recently accepted by a mid-west law school, “Howard” wrote, “I never really studied much in college, cramming for tests and assume law school will be like that, but my wife tells me I will flunk out if I approach it that way. What do...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, traffic ticket
June 18, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, we are worried about our 19-year-old son, ‘John.’ He drives like a maniac, has been pulled over by the local police several times, but they always give him a warning because I am well known in town. Instead of...
by Dennis Beaver | communication, employees, leadership, management
August 27, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver “Many workplace issues that become unpleasant legal matters can be traced to questions that were not asked and complaints voiced by employees that were not explored,” says Marinor Ifurung, HR consultant with the Southern...
by Dennis Beaver | fraud, technology, victim rights
February 13, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Hardly a day goes by without a story of a major data breach on a business, government agency or individual. And, like seeing reruns of the same old television series over and over again, I think that most of us grow tired of being...
by Dennis Beaver | tax resolution, tax scam
October 22, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver Our story will be of special interest to anyone going out on their own, and starting a new business. It’s exciting, a bit scary and can get really scary if you forget all about your “silent partner,” the IRS. “That’s something that...
by Dennis Beaver | housing, landlord/tenant
December 22, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Eric and Cindy have never met, but they both have an identical legal problem and contacted You and the Law the same day. Just how do you legally deal with property that has been left behind when a tenant —...
by Dennis Beaver | homeowner's insurance, insurance, insurance claim, property damage
April 2, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver After the first El Nino storm of this year, Doug, a Central California reader phoned in a panic, his trembling voice explaining: “Two days ago a neighbor’s tree crashed into our home, demolishing it, injuring our baby daughter and...
