The Beasley Building
1125 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone (215) 592-1000
Fax (215) 592-8360
3000 Atrium Way
Suite 258
Mount Laurel, NJ 08054
Phone (856) 273-6966
Fax (856) 273-6913
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Welcome to The Beasley Firm
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And when we fight your battles, we are not afraid to take on anybody.
The Beasley Firm built its reputation over the past half-century by winning groundbreaking, multi-million dollar, precedent-setting verdicts against hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical firms, auto manufacturers, railroads, airplane manufacturers, Pulitzer Prize-winning newspapers, the city of Philadelphia, and the Philadelphia Public Housing Authority.
The Beasley Firm has continued that tradition with recent cases that have attracted the attention of publications such as Philadelphia magazine and The New York Times. We successfully sued the United States Air Force in a contract action on behalf of a local filmmaker and obtained a major settlement. We've gone after the NFL and the manufacturers of the John Madden video game for unauthorized use of the voice of a Philadelphia broadcasting legend, John “The Voice of God” Facenda. And when the Mayor of Philadelphia falsely accused a top police official of wrongdoing, we took the mayor to court so the truth could be told. We have even taken on the food critic at The Philadelphia Inquirer for not getting his facts straight when he trashed the wrong cut of meat at a local steak house.
Our passion for justice doesn’t stop at the nation’s borders. The Beasley Firm in 1998 won a $907 million judgment against fugitive killer Ira Einhorn, then hiding out in the south of France, on behalf of the family of Einhorn’s murder victim, Holly Maddux. The judgment prevented Einhorn from profiting from a book or movie deal that he was attempting to negotiate. The Beasley Firm in 2003 also won a $104 million judgment in Smith v. Taliban on behalf of 9/11 victims against Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda, Saddam Hussein and Iraq. This was the first 9/11 case tried to verdict, and it obtained international headlines.
When we fight your battles, we do whatever it takes to win. In the Einhorn case, we had to track down a fugitive killer in French wine country. In the Taliban case, we hired armed guards in Islamabad to serve notice on Taliban officials by nailing legal papers to their doors, and by broadcasting public notices in Arabic on Al Jazeera.
At The Beasley Firm, it’s not always about money; the firm has taken up the cause of many people who have been the victims of injustice, simply because it was the right thing to do.
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Courtroom Cowboy Courtroom Cowboy is the story of Jim Beasley Sr., a legendary Philadelphia trial lawyer who was so poor as a kid he picked cotton on his grandmother’s farm in Mississippi and walked to school in his bare feet. He was a high school dropout who drove a Greyhound bus before he turned his life around by enrolling in Temple University on the GI Bill. He made his reputation as a lawyer by fearlessly standing up for the rights of society’s underdogs, while trying 400 cases during a 48-year career. He was recognized during the mid 1980s for having won more million-dollar verdicts than any other trial lawyer in the country. Outside the courtroom, he indulged his appetite for adventure, hunting big game in Africa and barnstorming as an air-show pilot, flying World War II fighter planes. The Temple University Law School now bears his name. Read An Excerpt from Courtroom Cowboy, by Ralph Cipriano |
