10 Key Strategies to Avoid ID Theft People Don’t Plan to Fail, They Fail to Plan 1. Do not sign the back of your credit cards. Instead, put ‘ASK FOR PHOTO ID.’ 2. When you are writing checks to pay on your credit card accounts, DO NOT put the complete account number on the ‘For’ [...]
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ABC’S of Small Claims by Dale Gribow
The ABC’s of Small Claims by Dale Gribow The Small Claims court is a very special court where you cannot have a lawyer with you and disputes are resolved quickly. With a regular court action it would take you YEARS to get to court and the filing fee and service would be about $500. Small [...]
10 Tips On Buying A Home
10 Tips on Buying A Home By: Dale S. Gribow 1. Avoid the realtor acting as a “dual agent” for both the buyer and the seller. Choose an experienced realtor to represent “your interests only” in the transaction. 2. Obtain home inspections by a qualified inspector and consider separate inspections for the roof, the pool [...]
Article written for the CV Weekly Newspaper by Dale Gribow
The ABC’S of Protecting Yourself From Theft People don’t plan to fail, they fail to plan! You never know who is going to steal from you 1. You should recognize me! I was at your home last week cleaning your carpets, cleaning your pool or delivering your new refrigerator. 2. Thanks for letting me use the [...]
The Dirty Dozen – Twelve things you should and should not say to the police.
TWELVE THINGS YOU SHOULD AND SHOULD NOT SAY TO THE POLICE By: Dale Gribow – (760) 341-4411 As a practicing criminal attorney for over 30 years, I have met hundreds of police officers both in the capacity of witnesses, friends or colleagues. Police work is a world where each situation that police view, has a [...]
Silence is Golden. Convincing clients to keep their darn mouth shut.
By Dale S. Gribow We have all seen big mouth bass mounted on office walls. Under it is usually a brass plate with the inscription “If I hadn’t opened my mouth, I wouldn’t be here today.” Certainly, Martha Stewart would have profited from these words. Many clients facing informal interrogation by police interrogators for formal [...]
I’ve been arrested for DUI and I know I’m guilty. So why do I need an attorney?
By: Dale Gribow As a practicing criminal attorney for over 30 years, the most commonly asked question I receive is “I just got arrested for drunk driving, I’m guilty, why do I need an attorney?” I explain, that a criminal lawyer, makes a distinction between someone committing an act and someone being guilty in the [...]