Julia Beasley, a lawyer with Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of the family of Laura Pullam, a paramedic who was killed Dec. 15 while on the job with Care Ambulance. Ms. Pullam was working the scene of a vehicle accident on Interstate 65 in Montgomery County, Ala., when she was struck by a pick-up truck.
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.
Beasley Allen Law Firm presented the twelfth Wii gaming system in its year-long "Wii Give Back!" campaign to the United Methodist Children's Home on Friday, Dec. 10. UMCH provides residential group homes for children, teens and young mothers; transitional homes for young adults; regular and therapeutic foster care programs; family preservation and support services for families dealing with child abuse and neglect; adoption home studies; scholarships and family aid. The Wii was presented to the Headland Group Home, also called "The Settlement," which serves up to eight teenage boys and also has a Transitional Living Facility.
The law firm of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., represented the family of Beverlyn Wingard in a wrongful death lawsuit filed in Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama. Ms. Wingard was killed in January 2008 while working for Albany International in Montgomery, when she was crushed by machinery she was operating at the textile plant. Montgomery County Circuit Judge Charles Price found on behalf of the Plaintiffs and awarded $5,250,000 in damages.
This week the Montgomery County Commission presented an official proclamation declaring Oct. 24-30, 2010, as Pro Bono Week in Montgomery County, Ala. The resolution was sponsored by Commission Ham Wilson, Jr. The recognition is part of Alabama's activities in celebration of National Pro Bono Week, established by the American Bar Association in 2009 to recognize the efforts of lawyers to provide free civil legal assistance to people in poverty who would otherwise not have access to justice. Pro Bono Week activities in Alabama are sponsored by the Alabama State Bar and its Pro Bono Celebration Task Force, with support of local bar associations statewide.
Volunteers from the Montgomery Fire Department and the Montgomery Police Department, along with corporate and community sponsors, joined forces to raise funds for the family of injured MPD officer Corporal David Brown. The Public Safety fundraiser, a Boston butt sale, was held Oct. 23 and raised more than $18,000 for the Brown family.
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C. has filed a wrongful death lawsuit on behalf of plaintiff Horace Walton, whose daughter, Jennifer Leanne Walton, was killed on October 3, 2010, when the 1987 Dodge 15-passenger van in which she was a passenger rolled over several times and crashed. The van became uncontrollable after the tread on a rear tire separated, causing the tire to fail. The complaint (57-CV-2010-900201.00), filed today in the Circuit Court for Russell County, Alabama, alleges products liability, failure to warn, negligence and wantonness for the unsafe conditions of the van and tire. Defendants include Chrysler Group, L.L.C., Chrysler Group Vans, L.L.C., and R&J Tire Co. Inc.
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. attorney Rhon Jones, who heads the firm's Environmental Law section, has been chosen to help direct litigation related to the BP oil disaster. Jones is one of 15 lawyers out of more than 100 who applied to oversee the consolidated litigation as part of the Plaintiffs Steering Committee (PSC). The BP litigation, which involves hundreds of cases against the oil giant and other defendants, was consolidated under U.S. District Judge Carl Barbier in New Orleans in August.
Beasley Allen Law Firm presented the tenth Wii gaming system in its year-long "Wii Give Back!" campaign to the We Care Program in Atmore, Ala., Tuesday, Oct. 20. The We Care Program plans to incorporate the Wii system into its Timothy House program for men coming out of prison.
Greg Allen, shareholder at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has been honored by his alma mater, Jones School of Law. A new addition to the law school will be named in his honor. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Allen Law Center on the campus of Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law is set for Friday, October 15, 2010, at 9 a.m.
