by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, divorce
July 31, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver California Superior Courts report that an incredible 90 percent of divorces are now being handled by at least one of the parties without a lawyer, in Pro Per. Frequently cited reasons are that we are too...
by Dennis Beaver | Bully, business, employees, ethics, management
July 22, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “Recently, the insurance property adjusting firm I work for hired a brother and sister, ‘Jack and Jill,’ who are competent, but their behavior around our supervisor, who is a bully, is creating a toxic environment....
by Dennis Beaver | divorce, family law, lawyers
December 6, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Across California and much of the country, over 70 percent of all divorce and family-law related matters are being handled entirely by the parties themselves as a pro per–or pro se as it is called in some states. However, as any...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership, workplace
October 20, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver “Shirley,” from Atlanta, wrote: “Your recent articles about becoming CEO in a family-owned business and how not to treat your sales staff if elevated to a management position are especially relevant to our situation, and I could use...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 9, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week, we told you the story of a law student with a part-time job in a San Francisco law firm. He discovered lawyers were performing unnecessary and costly legal services after clients told them to stop all...
by Dennis Beaver | Article, dating, online dating
March 16, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver
For anyone in the dating scene–high school, college, divorced or who has lost a spouse, please cast your vote for either (A) or (B): (A) I want to be romantically involved with someone kind, caring, honest, pays their part of the...
by Dennis Beaver | education, law school, technology
March 2, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver
Are you about to enter law school or know someone who is? While law school is demanding and some say “boring,” at many schools technology is making the hours spent studying more productive, practical, and fun. In a moment you’ll...
by Dennis Beaver | employees, employment, financial, management
October 4, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver If you were to ask just about any business owner if their employees should receive equal pay for equal work or could be paid differently, based on gender, race, color, religion, and national origin, I’m certain that most would reply,...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, complaint, consumer, drug use, lawyers
December 1, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver Regardless of what area of law an attorney specializes in, this is a high-stress occupation. Law is a “people” business; people and problems, often of their own creation, many expecting the attorney to “fix” it with one phone...
by Dennis Beaver | education, law school, lawyers
March 15, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver If you are in college and considering law school, or out in the working world and looking for an occupational change, Los Angeles based attorney Shant Karnikian has some very specific recommendations, and I’ll get to those in a...
