The Legal Strategies Conference will provide an opportunity to enhance your knowledge of current legal issues. Earn free CLE credits while hearing from top attorneys in your practice area – including Beasley Allen's Founding Shareholder, Jere L. Beasley. The event is free, lunch is free, as is the networking reception.

Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a lawsuit in the Circuit Court of Jefferson County, Alabama, on behalf of a young man badly burned and permanently injured when his car burned after a crash. The lawsuit alleges the automobile manufacturer, Ford Motor Company, was aware the design of the 1993 Ford Crown Victoria driven by the victim, 26-year-old Kevin Deandreas Boykins, was dangerous, presenting a significant risk of post crash fires, particularly in rear impacts.

Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., announced Dec. 9 that Shareholders J. Greg Allen and Andy D. Birchfield, Jr., have been named as the firm's Litigators of the Decade. Annually Beasley Allen recognizes its attorneys who demonstrate exceptional professional skill throughout the course of the year and who best represent the firm's ideal of "helping those who need it most." The Litigator of the Decade award was created this year to recognize the attorney or attorneys who have demonstrated consistent excellence on behalf of their clients and the firm.

The families of Beasley Allen attorneys J. Cole Portis, head of the firm's Personal Injury Section, and Andy Birchfield, head of the firm's Mass Torts Section, were selected by the Family Guidance Center of Alabama as winners of the 22nd annual Families of the Year Awards. The awards recognize outstanding families in the community who pull together when times are tough, work toward a common goal, celebrate accomplishments, and most importantly, love unconditionally.

Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. has been selected for inclusion in the 2010 Best Law Firms ranking. This is the inaugural publication of this highly anticipated national analysis, which will be compiled annually by U.S. News Media Group and Best Lawyers. Beasley Allen was given a Metropolitan First-Tier ranking in the areas of Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Plaintiffs, and Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs. Beasley Allen also received a Metropolitan Tier 2 ranking for Health Care Law in Montgomery. Rankings will be featured in the October print issue of U.S. News & World Report.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. (August 23, 2010)  - Thirteen Beasley Allen attorneys were selected for inclusion in the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers®.  Best Lawyers is the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession.

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.

Nine Beasley Allen attorneys were selected for inclusion on the 2010 Super Lawyers list, a designation earned by fewer than five percent of lawyers in the state. Included on the list are the firm's founding shareholder, Jere L. Beasley, as well as shareholders J. Greg Allen, Thomas J. Methvin, J. Cole Ports, Daniel W. "Dee" Miles III, C. Gibson Vance, Andy D. Birchfield, Jr., Rhon E. Jones and Benjamin E. Baker, Jr. Additionally, Beasley earned the additional distinction of being named among the Top 50 Lawyers in the state.

Birmingham is now the site of an investigation into a fatal wreck involving a Toyota Camry. Attorneys are suing the automaker over an accident that killed one elderly woman and seriously injured another. "There's a problem out there and these cars are killing people," said attorney Cole Portis.