MONTGOMERY, ALA. (February 26, 2009) - Beasley Allen filed suit in the Circuit Court for Mobile County, Ala., yesterday, Feb. 25, 2009, on behalf of the family of Michele Strother, who was killed August 6, 2008, when the 1996 Mercury Mountaineer in which she was a passenger went out of control and rolled over on Interstate 65.

Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law announced today that it has named a permanent scholarship in honor of Monica Jordan, whose family was selected for the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition program in Montgomery. The Monica Jordan Public Interest Law Scholarship will be awarded to a Jones law student who has demonstrated community service and plans to practice public interest law upon graduation. The first scholarship will be awarded in the fall semester of 2011 and the Law School hopes that Mrs. Jordan will be its first recipient.

Beasley Allen is excited to announce it will join the Emmy award-winning television show Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, to help to help a family in Montgomery, Alabama. Our philosophy of "helping those that need it most" extends throughout the firm, and shapes the way our attorneys and employees approach both their work and their role in the community.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. - (February 6, 2009)  Beasley Allen has re-filed the lawsuit on behalf of the City of Birmingham against various sub-prime lenders including CitiGroup, Inc., Citi Mortgage, Inc., Citi Financial, Inc., Argent Mortgage Company, LLC, and Countrywide. The suit contends that the companies have violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by participating in predatory lending practices. The lawsuit also alleges the lenders violated other state laws and have profited by their wrongdoing.

Beasley Allen, along with Dagney Johnson-Walker, a Birmingham lawyer, filed suit in November on behalf of the City of Birmingham against various sub-prime lenders including Wells Fargo, Regions Bank and Countrywide. The suit contends that the companies have violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by participating in predatory lending practices. The lawsuit also alleges the lenders violated other state laws and have profited by their wrongdoing.

MONTGOMERY, ALA, January 30, 2009 -- A lawsuit was filed today in the Circuit Court of Baldwin County, Ala., on behalf of the family of Leroy Myers, a decorated war veteran who died as the result of a fall on May 3, 2007, while under supervised nursing care at the W.F. Green State Veterans Home. Defendants named in the suit include HMR Advantage Health Systems, Inc.; Health Management Resources - Governmental Services, Inc.; HMR of Bay Minette, Inc.; and Health Management Resources, Inc. All of these companies had the responsibility for operation and management of the facility.

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 Founding Shareholder Jere L. Beasley has been selected as one of "Alabama's 12 most influential people" by a panel of editors at the New York Times Regional Newspapers in Florence, Gadsden and Tuscaloosa, Ala.

Montgomery, Ala. - A lawsuit has been filed in the Circuit Court for Lee County, Alabama, on behalf of an Auburn University student who was injured at a campus fraternity house on January 11, 2009. The complaint was filed on behalf of Taylor G. Jones against Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity, the Auburn chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon, Alabama Alpha chapter, and a fraternity member, Zachary James Quillen.

Montgomery, Ala. - Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., has filed a class action suit on behalf of property owners damaged by the Dec. 22, 2008 Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) spill at the Kingston Fossil Plant. Located 40 miles west of Knoxville, Tenn., the plant released 1.1 billion gallons of toxin-laden sludge into a rural neighborhood when a waste storage pond retaining wall failed. The suit is filed against the TVA, the nation's largest public utility, over potentially the most significant environmental disaster since the Exxon Valdez oil spill.