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 | 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 | bank, consumer credit, privacy
April 25, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver These days the term due diligence is all over the news. Basically, it means looking into someone’s background before handing them your hard-earned money as an investment. Due diligence also takes place...
by Dennis Beaver | employment, medicine
April 18, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Would you like to guess the one occupational category most in need of seeing a lawyer before accepting a new job offer — but whose members rarely do? It’s health care: Doctors, physician assistants,...
by Dennis Beaver | debt collection
April 04, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Mary Ramirez and her husband Thomas have been receiving phone calls lately from a “very nice sounding young lady with a company called DCM Services, concerned that we do the right thing for the memory of...
by Dennis Beaver | insurance claim, technology
March 28, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Several months ago our house was destroyed in a fire. Before this, we had no idea of the emotional damage a fire can cause, not to mention the monumental task of putting together an insurance...
by Dennis Beaver | scam, technology
March 21, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Chances are you’ve never heard of Golden Bright Manufacturing located in Hong Kong. But Palmer Tank & Construction, on South Union Avenue, right here in Bakersfield where I live — that name might ring...
by Dennis Beaver | testimony
March 7, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In our last two articles, we looked at how appearance and behavior can have a powerful influence on the most critical element in any case: Credibility. We can have great facts; all of our ducks lined up in a...
by Dennis Beaver | testimony
February 28, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week we looked at the ways in which personal appearance — clothing, tattoos, piercings — have the potential to influence the outcome of your case. Today, we’ll look at behavior, how exhibiting the...
by Dennis Beaver | testimony
February 21, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Should a lawyer tell a client how to dress for court, and to threaten to dump that client if the advice is not strictly followed? That was Mike’s question, and the answer should be of interest to...
