by Dennis Beaver | lawyers
October 01, 2011 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver What do you think is the most common mistake that virtually all lawyers have made at one time or another which proved to be embarrassing to the attorney and costly to the client? Here’s a hint: It had...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 16, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In our two last articles, we looked at the ugly secret of how some law firms resort to completely illegal billing practices doing unnecessary work for the sole purpose of running up the bill. As we pointed out,...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 9, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver Last week, we told you the story of a law student with a part-time job in a San Francisco law firm. He discovered lawyers were performing unnecessary and costly legal services after clients told them to stop all...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
May 02, 2009 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver This recession has now touched lawyers, many who earned hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, are out of a job. There are indeed certain legal specialties in great demand during a down economy, but most are...
by Dennis Beaver | attorney fees
June 10, 2006 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver In a recent article I wrote about Mark, who hired a Bakersfield attorney for representation in a divorce case. Even though he has only been in private practice a few years, his hourly rate was almost $300, and...
