Beasley Allen managing shareholder Tom Methvin, current President of the Board of Directors for Brantwood Children's Home, was in Tuscaloosa today to accept a check presented to Brantwood by the Nick's Kids Fund. The Nick's Kids Fund is a charitable foundation established by University of Alabama head football coach Nick Saban and his wife, Terry, to promote and support children, family, teacher and student causes.

Tom Methvin, President of the Alabama State Bar, sent the following letter to newspapers in Alabama, asking them to help people in critical need of mortgage foreclosure assistance find the services that will help them keep their home. The letter provides information about the Bar's Mortgage Foreclosure Assistance Program, which provides a toll-free hotline to connect homeowners with the legal services they need if they are facing foreclosure. Many of these services are provided pro bono by volunteer lawyers.

A Chilton County jury awarded the Sanderson family of Clanton, Ala., a verdict of $3.5 million for the death of James Sanderson, who was killed when the van he was driving was crushed between two logging trucks. Beasley Allen attorneys Benjamin E. Baker and J. Cole Portis represented the Sanderson family, including James Sanderson's widow, Annie M. Sanderson, and children, Derek, Josh and Amy Sanderson; against defendants Ken Gorum Trucking and Gary Fruge.

Thomas J. Methvin, managing shareholder of Beasley Allen Law Firm, became the 133rd president of the Alabama State Bar in an inauguration ceremony Saturday morning, July 18.

As president, Methvin serves as head of the 16,000-member organization. Key initiatives for his term in office include increasing funding for Access to Justice with the goal of ensuring the legal needs of people living in poverty are adequately met, increasing participation in the Bar's Volunteer Lawyers Program, and overseeing Alabama's participation in the first-ever celebration of National Pro Bono Week.

The public is invited to the 4th Annual Rib Cook-Off at Eastside Grille on August 6, with proceeds to benefit Brantwood Children's Home.

Attorneys associated with the Alabama Civil Justice Foundation presented a check to the board of directors of Brantwood Children’s Home to support the organization’s mission.

MONTGOMERY, ALA. (June 9, 2009)  - Beasley Allen is pleased to welcome a new associate, Danielle Ward Mason, who joins the firm's Mass Torts section, where she will work with section head Andy Birchfield to investigate claims involving dangerous drugs and medical devices. Danielle graduated cum laude from Faulkner University's Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in 2007.

Complaint alleges nursing home facility put profits over people, misrepresenting its ability to properly care for residents in order to hold onto government funding.

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Volunteers from the Montgomery Police Department worked around the clock from Friday night, May 8, 2009, to Saturday morning, May 9, to prepare close to 200 smoked Boston butts for the Ninth Annual Central Alabama CrimeStoppers Boston Butt Sale.