by Dennis Beaver | court, education, judges
August 25, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver If you are headed to court as a witness or a party in a lawsuit, there are a lot of ways you can do real damage to your chances of success, several of which are common sense, but others you don’t want to learn the hard way. Who...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
January 15, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Kate” is a student at Cal State Fresno who spent a semester at a university in the south of France. Before leaving, she learned from AT&T that her cell phone would work in Europe. But they...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, malpractice, medicine
August 24, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver I am a physician in Northern California and read your column in the Eureka Times-Standard. My father is a surgeon and last year lost a patient even before the operation began because the anesthesiologist gave the patient...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, malpractice, medicine
April 21, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Your phone rings. It is a police officer requesting that you come down to the station to be interviewed about a case in which you could be either a witness or possible suspect. Should you? If you know anyone...
by Dennis Beaver | real estate
June 25, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “My 80 year-old father is selling and flipping properties like crazy, working with a real estate broker and his pals I have very bad feelings about. Do you have some suggestions of what I can do to help minimize the chances of dad...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer credit, ethics
August 01, 2007 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Mr. Beaver, we desperately need your advice and have been reading your column for over 10 years. The problem is that months ago we loaned our 27 year old son $50,000 for a real estate investment. He had a...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
August 23, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we told you about the months-long credit card billing nightmare in which Eiji Yamashita of Hanford found himself over a computer he ordered online from Toshiba Direct in November 2009, but which was...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer, technology
August 14, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Today’s story will be of interest to anyone who shops online, and especially for computers, or other expensive electronics. While most transactions go through easily, if something does go wrong — your...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 02, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver This recession has now touched lawyers, many who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, are out of a job. There are indeed certain legal specialties in great demand during a down economy, but most are...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 16, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In our two last articles, we looked at the ugly secret of how some law firms resort to completely illegal billing practices doing unnecessary work for the sole purpose of running up the bill. As we pointed out,...
