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, 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 | attorney fees, lawyers
February 25, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver The day that someone comes into our office and says, “Beav, things are great at home, the wife is happy, our kids are doing well at school, and I love my job,” I will pick up the phone and dial 911, as, clearly we’ve got a lunatic...
by Dennis Beaver | AI - Artificial Intelligence, attorney fees, clients, liability
The ability of AI to reduce the time required for certain legal tasks is exposing both the legal profession’s reliance on the billable hour to boost firms’ income and the unrealistic expectations that lawyers face to remain employed. January 13, 2026 • By...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, business, contracts, debt collection, lawyers
June 7, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver BizCounsel Promises Affordable Access to Legal Services for Business “I just read your article, ‘Golden Rules for Going into Business for Yourself.’ You must have been a fly on the wall in our house when I had the identical discussion...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, contracts, lawyers
June 23, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver It is impossible to turn on TV, open the phone book to the attorneys section or surf the Web and not find ads for personal injury lawyers, which generally all sound pretty much the same and stress, “No recovery,...
