by Dennis Beaver | ethics, lawyers
December 24, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver For your first day on the job as a deputy district attorney in many small D.A. offices, “training” consists of being handed a file less than an hour before trial. You trust that the D.A. who reviewed the...
by Dennis Beaver | education, lawyers
May 07, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I live in California’s Central Valley and my parents have difficult, manual labor jobs which has taken a real health toll on them. At high school, I had friends whose parents were lawyers, and...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers, medicine
October 13, 2012 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver For anyone having a low image of the legal profession, today’s story provides justification for taking that view several notches lower. We do not make that statement lightly. An awareness of what many believe...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers
September 10, 2016 • By Dennis Beaver Are you being overcharged by your lawyer? How can you know? And if you really are, is it possible that you — yes, you, the client — are partially to blame? We asked San Francisco-based lawyer John O’Connor — who is a nationally...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
February 09, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver While in their last semester at college, twins Glen and Brad — only 21 at the time — saw a newspaper ad offering a part-time job in “disaster restoration and remediation.” It would change their lives. “We remember the ad as if...
by Dennis Beaver | dui - drunk driving, lawyers, traffic ticket
May 18, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver While lots of attorneys in California are looking for work, San Joaquin College of Law graduate Paul Denni considers himself fortunate in his choice of legal specialties. Throughout Southern California, Denni handles traffic defense...
