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...
by Dennis Beaver | Option to Lease, real estate
July 9, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Today’s story will be of special interest to anyone who owns acreage —typically agricultural — in areas of the country which receive plentiful sunlight or wind, ideal for the construction of a solar or wind farm. Unless you are...
by Dennis Beaver | homeowner's insurance, property damage
July 2, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Today’s story has the potential of saving you thousands of dollars, plus the cost of a hair transplant to replace all that you would have otherwise pulled out. Real property owners expect to be taken care by their homeowners or...
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 | alcohol abuse, drug use, lawyers
June 18, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver, our small trucking company is involved in litigation because of an accident. “The lawyer assigned to represent us by our insurance company was great – at first – but recently, we can’t reach him, he fails to return phone...
