How storytelling helps lawyers win their cases

November 8, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver  Trial lawyers are known for trying cases before juries. But here’s a question for you: “What is the last thing a trial lawyer wants to do?” If you thought, “Lose a case,” that’s one answer, but even before that, what? It is having...

How to be a smart client

February 13, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver The older we become, the more we understand “Life doesn’t come with an instruction manual,” including work, marriage, raising kids, and until recently, hiring a lawyer. As far as hiring a lawyer is concerned, that’s all changed, as...

How to fail in business

June 14, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver  (If You Love to Cook, Don’t Open A Restaurant!) It is the American dream – successfully running your own business. But are you able to? Do you know the major errors which virtually assure failure? Friends of this column know...

How to flunk out of law school


March 9, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver Recently accepted by a mid-west law school, “Howard” wrote, “I never really studied much in college, cramming for tests and assume law school will be like that, but my wife tells me I will flunk out if I approach it that way. What do...