by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, conflict of interest, lawyers
January 10, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver In America’s small towns both lawyers and clients face two challenging realities: Lawyers who know and must be able to work with each other; The fact that almost everyone knows each other or are related in some way. Often an...
by Dennis Beaver | lawyers
October 11, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “A friend’s daughter passed the Bar Exam on her first try in February. She recently opened an office and I hired her to handle a $50,000 collections case for my company,” “Todd” wrote. “Doesn’t passing the Bar Exam mean that you...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
March 29, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver While one of the pre-requisites for becoming a lawyer isn’t having a good sense of humor, if you ask Aaron Shechet and his wife, Leigh Chandler, these Los Angeles based attorneys will tell you that it should be. “Especially,” as...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
March 15, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver “There probably isn’t a lawyer who hasn’t heard the famous Greed is Good speech recited by actor Michael Douglas, playing corporate raider Gordon Gekko in the 1987 film Wall Street,” observes Los Angeles-based attorney...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees, lawyers
December 28, 2013 • By Dennis Beaver When you hire an attorney, it’s normal to expect that your case will be competently handled and that you will be fairly billed for the lawyer’s time. Last week, we began a look at being billed, in our Hanford reader’s words, “$150...
