by Dennis Beaver | dating, fraud, online dating
May 17, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Recently divorced after a 20-year marriage, Ted was lonely. At a friend’s suggestion, he registered on the dating website, Plenty of Fish.com. It was Dec. 7, a day which would become his very own Pearl Harbor. Within minutes, he...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, workplace
May 10, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Last time we told you about Dr. Tom, a busy dentist in Central California with “a monumental collections tooth ache, well on the way to needing a root canal,” in the opinion of one of our nations foremost business consultants, Gary...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, workplace
May 3, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “Dr. Tom,” as his patients love to call him, is a young dentist in California’s Central Valley not far from Fresno. “He is the gentlest person I could ever imagine going to,” his receptionist, Traci, e-mailed You and the Law. “I...
by Dennis Beaver | family law
April 26, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver It was a beautiful spring morning in the California’s southern San Joaquin Valley, a Friday when Maria and her two friends were westbound on Highway 119, headed to their jobs in Taft. All three lived with their families and...
by Dennis Beaver | auto insurance, insurance, insurance claim
April 19, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Driving home, on the same road you’ve driven thousands of times, doing about 25 mph, suddenly, with no warning, a car pulls a U-turn right in front of you. Attempting to avoid the accident, you veer to the right, but still collide,...
by Dennis Beaver | privacy, technology
April 12, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “Remember the Miracle on the Hudson photographs of U.S. Air Flight 1549 which was successfully ditched in the Hudson River by Captain Sully Sullenberger in January of 2009?” asks Loyola Law School and Thomas Jefferson School of...
by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, consumer
April 5, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “About a year ago I purchased a new 3 Series BMW. Now, I love the car but only learned last week that it has what are called Run Flat Tires. Before buying the car I had never heard of Run Flat Tires,” Darrell’s email began. “I...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
March 29, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver While one of the pre-requisites for becoming a lawyer isn’t having a good sense of humor, if you ask Aaron Shechet and his wife, Leigh Chandler, these Los Angeles based attorneys will tell you that it should be. “Especially,” as...
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 | attorney fees, lawyers
March 15, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “There probably isn’t a lawyer who hasn’t heard the famous Greed is Good speech recited by actor Michael Douglas, playing corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street,” observes Los Angeles-based attorney...
