Law students, lawyers and depression

June 28, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver While lawyers have the potential of earning significant incomes, in one respect law is a high risk profession. Attorneys suffer from depression and substance abuse more often than any other occupation in the...

Conversation with a con artist

June 14, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Want to know the easiest way of separating people from their money? Join a Church!” That was the way “Greg” began one of the more interesting discussions I have had in recent months with...

The business of getting you into law school

June 07, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Getting into a good law school isn’t easy. Competition for a limited number of places, in our current bad economy, means that at the top schools it’s harder than ever to be admitted. This increased...

As a tenant, know your rights

May 31, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver If you’re considering renting an office, or possibly locating your business in a shopping mall, today’s story will be of special interest and we may be able to save you quite a bit of money on CAM...

Be careful of annuities

May 24, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “My parents are both over 60 and close to retirement. Before the real estate bubble burst, they sold farmland — which had been in the family over 50 years — for more than two million dollars. It was...

Observations on traffic court

May 17, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In today’s column, I want to share with you some of the experiences I’ve had when sitting as a pro tem judge in traffic court, here in Kern County over the past several years. If you’ve been...

Don’t let bank accounts become dormant

May 10, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Patti Davis is a longtime Hanford reader who almost had a real problem with Bank of America, caused by an incompetent bank representative. What nearly happened to Patti would have easily taken her months to...

How Swede it is

April 19, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I am a senior at UCLA and my boyfriend (Hans) is a Swedish graduate student who I love and want to marry. Last summer, we visited his hometown — Stockholm — and I just fell in love with Sweden. It is...