by Dennis Beaver | employment, leadership
September 10, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Mr. Beaver, my husband, ‘Jamie’ thinks that he is the victim of racial discrimination at work and is speaking to lawyers about a possible lawsuit. He has not been promoted and feels somewhat shunned, “Angela’s”...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, politics, workplace
September 3, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Our family owns a small furniture manufacturing company in Southern California that is very much a happy, living dinosaur. We are a mini United Nations, with about 30 employees, most who have been here for decades, and the...
by Dennis Beaver | business, investment
August 27, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Mr. Beaver, I am being sued in small claims court by several investors in my revolutionary Food Truck App that enables you to know when a food truck is in your area,” “Colin” excitedly explained during our phone call. “No one else...
by Dennis Beaver | business, investment
August 25, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
If you or someone you know is looking into starting a business and needs financing, then our story could save them a great deal of money, frustration and disappointment. “There are many pitfalls to avoid when securing funding for...
by Dennis Beaver | business, politics
August 21, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
Anne, my paralegal, grew up in British Hong Kong and learned to speak Chinese. The other day while we were having lunch at the office — and watching a TV documentary about Kenya — it showed two brothers, 9 and 14, preparing an...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney client privilege, divorce, medicine
August 6, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, I’ll bet you have never heard a story that I’m about to tell you, but it is the truth. I think that I may have contributed to my husband’s death from COVID. Will the attorney-client privilege apply to our conversation,...
by Dennis Beaver | commercial real property, property damage, real estate
August 3, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Long Beach, California attorney John Coates is not someone you want to hear from if you own commercial real property that has, for example, a parking lot open to the public. There’s nothing wrong with Coates, in fact he is a very...
by Dennis Beaver | fraud, scam
July 30, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver My paralegal Anne buzzed me: “Dennis, you have readers from Palm Springs on the line, 90-year-old mom and her 55-year-old son. He is trying to prevent her from sending money to scammers using a gift card.” That call could not have...
by Dennis Beaver | alcohol abuse, dui - drunk driving
July 23, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver When I was a deputy DA in Kern County in the 1970s – prosecuting DUI cases – I often wondered if these defendants could have kept themselves out of trouble had they known their blood alcohol levels before deciding to drive. But at...
by Dennis Beaver | donation, education
July 16, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “My father graduated from a small, private college in the Midwest with a degree in civil engineering. He became a real estate developer and his company was very successful. “Dad often said, ‘I want to give back to my school in a big...
