Children First Foundation will hold the Jere Beasley Evening for Children today at the Renaissance
Montgomery Hotel & Spa at the Convention Center.

Jere Beasley was nearly broke and looking for work after getting whipped in a race for governor 30 years ago. Since then, the rural Alabama lawyer has reemerged as a powerhouse plaintiffs' attorney whose firm counts more than $20 billion in verdicts and settlements.

Jere Beasley, an Alabama lawyer, who has been a very active supporter of John Edwards, is now backing Senator Barack Obama for President. Beasley, a Democrat who served as Lt. Governor under George Wallace, made his support known today in an interview with the Associated Press.

Beasley Allen Law firm recently settled a wrongful death case against Continental Tire and Ford Motor Co. The lawsuit arose out of the death of an 8-month old girl in a vehicle rollover. The infant was killed when the car seat in which she was buckled was ejected from a Ford F-150 four-door pickup truck when the left rear door latch self-actuated and the door flew open. We learned a great deal about Ford's handling of door handle-latch assembly defects during pretrial discovery in the case.

Beasley Allen recently settled a wrongful death case against a major automobile manufacturer involving the failure of a seat belt to restrain the driver during a rollover crash.