by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, divorce
May 27, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver There are more than 200,000 lawyers in California. It is a number vastly in excess of what’s needed, resulting in some clients becoming victims of their own attorney’s greed. As a great deal of the...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, divorce
June 27, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Recently, this column took a hard look at what our nation’s recession has done to both the legal profession and to some unlucky clients who became victims of outrageous — and frequently illegal — billing...
by Dennis Beaver | landlord/tenant, photography, real estate
September 29, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver Regular viewers of Judge Judy reruns, or Judith Sheindlin’s new show, Judy Justice, may know the two occupations she has little regard for: used car salespeople and real estate agents. In her opinion, she says, honesty and caring...
by Dennis Beaver | air conditioning, consumer, technology, thermostat
February 8, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver I needed to be at our office at 7 in the morning one Monday when nighttime temperatures in the San Joaquin Valley fell to below freezing. The new thermostat which we were testing for this story was scheduled to give us 72 degrees by...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers
October 11, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “A friend’s daughter passed the Bar Exam on her first try in February. She recently opened an office and I hired her to handle a $50,000 collections case for my company,” “Todd” wrote. “Doesn’t passing the Bar Exam mean that you...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
August 1, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver The decision to hire a lawyer — and specifically who to hire — is often one of the most important ever, with potential consequences lasting a lifetime. For that reason, a good attorney-client relationship is essential and should begin...
by Dennis Beaver | contractor, employment
April 21, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver For a trainee in the general contracting trades, having the benefit of a wise and experienced employer is not always a given, but 25 year-old Mike was fortunate, as he was taken under the wing of 55 year-old Eric, who holds several...
by Dennis Beaver | asset protection, power of attorney, retirement
July 28, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver In addition to all the other issues which revolve around getting older, a significant percentage of America’s aging population have more things to deal with, as the following email from Central California reader “Annie” describes:...
by Dennis Beaver | business, dating, employment, ethics
August 5, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I always thought that I was a good judge of character, and am very trusting, but must have the word sucker in bright, neon-green, tattooed on my forehead. Constantly, I hire the wrong people to work in my accounting firm...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, workplace
March 23, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I am office manager for a medical clinic that is owned and operated by physicians originally from overseas. I want to stress that they are excellent docs. I am writing you out of frustration...
