by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
June 05, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “Last night I re-read an article you wrote in November of 2009 about attorney fees charged in personal injury cases. You interviewed law professors who were critical of 25 to 50 percent fees, which often...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, background checks, lawyers
January 12, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver As a great deal of the work lawyers do takes place out of sight. This permits bill padding – charging for work that was never done or at an outrageous and unconscionable rate. Estimates of fraudulent billing run from 21% to over...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
January 13, 2007 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Part 2 In the first part of this series, we began a look at what can only be described as completely unjustifiable and excessive attorney billing practices. One glaring and common example is scheduling court...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, divorce
May 27, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver There are more than 200,000 lawyers in California. It is a number vastly in excess of what’s needed, resulting in some clients becoming victims of their own attorney’s greed. As a great deal of the...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, divorce
June 27, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Recently, this column took a hard look at what our nation’s recession has done to both the legal profession and to some unlucky clients who became victims of outrageous — and frequently illegal — billing...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
August 1, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver The decision to hire a lawyer — and specifically who to hire — is often one of the most important ever, with potential consequences lasting a lifetime. For that reason, a good attorney-client relationship is essential and should begin...
