Chris Glover, Shareholder with Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., was elected President of the Southern Trial Lawyers Association (STLA) at the organization's 23^rd Annual Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana, March 3-6. Glover will lead the organization March 2011 through March 2012. It is the mission of the STLA to promote fellowship, learning and networking among trial lawyers throughout the 13 southern states.

Jere L. Beasley, Founding Shareholder of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., was honored by the Southern Trial Lawyers Association (STLA) on Friday, March 4, receiving the "War Horse" Award. This recognition celebrates the nation's most outstanding trial lawyers. The honor was bestowed during the War Horse Banquet as part of the STLA's 23^rd Annual Conference, held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

A group of guys from Vaughn Forest Church, along with a mission ministry called TREC International, learned about a group of homeless men who were gathering in the yard to drink and stay warm around a fire they would light in a barrel. The ministry started by bringing these men warm clothes, boots and gloves, and helping them with odds and ends, things they needed, and running errands for them. Eventually, the homeless men asked the missionaries – for that's what they are, even if their mission field is a little closer to home by most people's definitions – for a Bible study. 

Montgomery law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court for Calhoun County, Alabama, on behalf of the family of Barry Sloan, who was killed July 24 when the radio tower on which he was working collapsed. Beasley Allen attorneys Jere L. Beasley, J. Cole Portis, Chris D.Glover and James D. Walker are representing the plaintiff, Alyson Cornelius Sloan. Defendants named in the suit are Barnhart Crane & Rigging Co., Inc., and David Stephens.

Montgomery based law firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., one of the country's leading firms involved in civil litigation on behalf of claimants, has named lawyer Chris Glover as its newest shareholder. Glover, who practices in the firm's Personal Injury Section, has dedicated his career to representing injured individuals and their families in a wide range of serious injury and death claims, including those that were a result of defective products, car, commercial truck and workplace accidents.

Montgomery, Ala. - A lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, Northern Division, on behalf of the family of Thomas Ballenger, against Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. Ballenger was killed on January 4, 2009 when the Sikorsky S-76C++ helicopter he was piloting crashed into swampy terrain north of the Gulf of Mexico near Morgan City, Louisiana. The crash occurred about 7 minutes after take off from Amelie, Louisiana, and resulted in the death of Ballinger and 7 others. There was one survivor who was critically injured.

Beasley Allen files suit for family in helicopter crash.

The Alabama State Bar Association has selected Beasley Allen attorney Chris D. Glover for inclusion in Class V of its annual Leadership Forum. Only 30 lawyers were chosen for this prestigious program. The Leadership Forum is designed for young lawyers, with a goal of enhancing their role in the future of the state's communities, both as policymakers and in their profession.

Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has been retained by the family of a deceased bridge worker who was killed in a bridge collapse on October 30, 2008 on I-10 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Eric Troy Blackmon, a long time employee of Boh Bros. Construction, was a foreman on the new Twin Span Bridge being built between Slidell and New Orleans, Louisiana.

A lawsuit filed Friday alleges serious flaws in the construction of a girder that fell from the new twin spans being built across Lake Pontchartrain, killing one worker and plunging nine others into the water.