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Beyond the Bar: Your 5-Step Guide to Discovering Whether a Lawyer Is Shady

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, complaint, lawyers, malpractice, search, State Bar

Research shows you can’t rely on some state bar websites to vet a lawyer you’re considering hiring. Here’s how to check out a lawyer before you hire. January 19, 2026  • By Dennis Beaver If you’re looking to retain an attorney, you might have...

What One Widow’s Ordeal Teaches Us About Marriage and Money

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, family, marriage, senior care

September 22, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver “My mother was a 72-year-old widow when she met ‘William’ at church and was soon swept off her feet. He claimed to have lost his wife some years earlier. “She described him as her Prince Charming — he took...

Why ‘Standard’ Digital Background Checks Can Be So Unreliable

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, employees, technology, workplace

February 17, 2025 • By Dennis Beaver We have all seen news stories about drivers for ride-sharing services who are arrested for sexually assaulting a passenger or committing some other violent crime, and it is revealed that the employee has a lengthy — often recent —...

Overbilled by your lawyer? You are not alone

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...

Couple ripped off by food trailer con

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, business, fraud, scam

August 12, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver If you have been thinking about getting into the food truck or trailer business, then today’s story will cause your blood to boil when you see what happened to our readers “Denzel” and “Leila,” who reside in Southern California. All...

Need to hire a lawyer? Local is best.

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, lawyers

December 3, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver 
 “Two of my employees were involved in an auto accident that was not their fault. They were about to hire an out-of-town law firm that advertises heavily on television because the attorney in the commercials is a big fan of the...
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