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  Constitutional Officers: Lieutenant Governor Jere Beasley   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Jere Locke Beasley was born December 12, 1935 in Tyler, Texas, to Browder Locke and Florence Camp Beasley.
During his career, Jere Beasley has tried hundreds of cases, and was co-lead counsel in the record $11.9 billion punitive damages award against ExxonMobil Corp. on behalf of the state of Alabama in 2003.
Beasley is married to the former Sara Baker of Adamsville, Alabama.
www.archives.state.al.us /conoff/beasley.html   (211 words)

  
 PR: Beasley Allen Calls for Full Disclosure of Confidential Vioxx Documents
According to a motion filed last week by Beasley Allen, Merck violated a protective order by disclosing personal and confidential information to the news media related to Cheryl Rogers and her deceased husband (Circuit or State Court of Clay County in Ashland, Ala, case number CV 03-073, Cheryl Rogers V. Merck).
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. has been in the forefront of the effort to have all of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors (Bextra, Celebrex and Vioxx) taken off the market since the law firm took on its first case against Merck more than four years ago.
Beasley Allen is spearheading the review of over 31,000 claims against the manufacturers of Bextra, Celebrex, and Vioxx, having filed over 160 cases to date.
www.prwebdirect.com /releases/2005/4/prweb235019.htm   (467 words)

  
 AVALA
It is untrue that my old friend Jere Beasley has been diagnosed with a phantom condition psychologists are calling a "mental money tapeworm." Apparently, such an affliction would be psychosomatic and consist of an imaginary brain parasite that creates in its victim an ever-increasing hunger for money.
Jere is given to calling corporations Big Mules, when the overhead at his own law firm is reportedly $3 million a month.
It was recently reported that Beasley and his firm and his family and friends constitute the sixth largest contributor in the nation to the presidential election fund of U.S. Sen. John Edwards, liberal Democrat trial lawyer (another redundancy?).
www.alabamalawsuitabuse.org /news/release_060403.cfm   (1124 words)

  
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The Beasley Allen firm represents Cheryl Rogers, an Alabama woman who filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Merck and Co. on behalf of her husband, claiming the Vioxx pills marketed by the New Jersey-based drug maker led to his death.
The $60,000 tied to the Beasley Allen firm represented 11 percent of the $551,807 that Rochester reported raising for his entire Supreme Court campaign, according to campaign finance reports filed by the PACs and the judge.
Jere Beasley, who heads the Montgomery-based Beasley Allen firm, said he openly supported Rochester during last year's campaign and supported him in previous campaigns.
www.judicialaccountability.org /articles/judgesvioxxcampaign.htm   (1600 words)

  
 Beasley Allen Rejects Merck's Attempt to Dismiss the First Vioxx Lawsuit
Beasley Allen is the sole counsel for plaintiff Cheryl Rogers, whose husband, Howard Rogers, died at age 42 as a direct result of taking Vioxx.
In response, Jere Beasley, founder and senior partner of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles expressed, "Merck's claims are unfounded and are a desperate attempt to avoid a day in court for a victim's family, and account for a drug that is responsible for thousands of deaths.
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C., the Montgomery, Alabama based law firm, has been in the forefront of the effort to have all of the cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors (Bextra, Celebrex, and Vioxx) taken off the market since the law firm took on its first case against Merck over 4 years ago.
www.emediawire.com /releases/2005/4/prweb229669.htm   (600 words)

  
 Jere Beasley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jere Locke Beasley (born December 12, 1935) was the acting governor of the U.S. State of Alabama from June 5 to July 7, 1972.
Beasley is currently the senior member of the firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C. He has practiced law as an advocate for victims of wrongdoing since 1979.
Beasley • Boutwell • Brewer • Carmichael • Cunningham • Davis • DeGraffenried • Ellis • Folsom, Jr.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jere_Beasley   (570 words)

  
 Law.com: Merck Asks Judge to Dismiss Wrongful Death Suit Over Vioxx
Beasley argued that Merck's motion was just a smear tactic against his client that was part of a company pattern to stifle those who spoke out about Vioxx's side effects.
Beasley mentioned one doctor Merck had been accused of intimidating and noted how a Stanford University medical professor had admonished the company for attacking investigators or speakers who expressed critical opinions of Vioxx.
Beasley also noted that Merck taught its sales representatives how to dodge doctors' question about Vioxx's side effects as it was spending millions to promote the drug to consumers.
www.law.com /jsp/law/LawArticleFriendly.jsp?id=1114592710590   (643 words)

  
 Politics in Alabama: What a Hypocrite   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Former Lt. Governor and big time Montgomery trial lawyer Jere Beasley is now calling for campaign finance reform after the expensive June primary elections.
My bet is on Jere and his cronies financing a large chunk of it, and through a series of PACs so he could hide his involvement.
Beasley is totally a hypocrite, and people like him need to be called on it.
alapolitics.blogspot.com /2006/07/what-hypocrite.html   (860 words)

  
 News & Events - Lightfoot, Franklin & White, LLC
The plaintiff, who was represented by Jere Beasley, Rick Morrison and Dana Taunton of the Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles firm in Montgomery, and Mike Jones of Jones and Coots in Luverne, argued that the seat belt system in the Escort was defective.
The vehicle was equipped with a automatic shoulder belt and manual lap belt, and the plaintiff alleged that due to poor belt fit and a failure of the lap belt in the wreck, Ms.
Jere Beasley, one of the most prominent plaintiffs' attorneys in the state, asked the jury for $25 million in damages to punish Ford for a design which, he argued, Ford knew was defective and unreasonably dangerous.
www.lfwlaw.com /news-events/story.cfm?id=27   (519 words)

  
 Welcome to Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.
Jere Beasley, the senior member of the firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C., has practiced law as an advocate for victims of wrongdoing since 1962.
Jere is, without a doubt, one of the leading trial lawyers in the entire country and a leading advocate for those who have been wronged.
Jere served as President for the Montgomery Lions Club during the 2005-2006 year.
www.beasleyallen.com /attorney_profiles/jlb.htm   (503 words)

  
 Obligation - Channel One - The Jere Beasley Report
Jere Beasley is easily the most prominent attorney in Alabama.
Beasley provides commentary on state, national and international events and trends.
The State of Alabama and its schoolchildren are indebted to Jere Beasley.
www.obligation.org /article.php?recordID=79   (164 words)

  
 Out of Order
But immediately after the accident he told an eyewitness that he'd fallen asleep at the wheel; at the hospital he told a doctor he'd had "a few beers at a party prior to his accident." The severity of his injuries is no doubt explained by the fact that he wasn't wearing a seat belt.
She was being represented by the Beasley firm, to which she had been referred by the judge's son, also a lawyer.
So Beasley thundered that GM was guilty of "close to criminal" conduct for spreading "false information" to its "surrogates and lackeys," including this author, sitting in the front row of the spectators' section.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/b/boot-order.html   (4186 words)

  
 Beasley Family News
Jere served as Lieutenant Governor of Alabama from 1971 to 1979.
Jere cannot serve on the Auburn board unless his selection is approved by a majority of the Alabama Senate.
The Beasley family in Brazil today is descended from one of the many Southern families who fled the South when the Confederate States was defeated in the War for Southern Independence (War Between the States 1861-1865).
www.geocities.com /~rewoodham/beasnews.html   (2060 words)

  
 PR: Judge Refuses to Dismiss First Vioxx Lawsuit
The suit was filed in August 2003 in Ashland, AL by Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. on behalf of Cheryl Rogers, the widow of Howard Brad Rogers.
Jere Beasley, attorney for Cheryl Rogers responded, "The Order was exactly as we expected.
According to a motion recently filed by Beasley Allen, Merck violated a protective order by disclosing personal and confidential information to the news media related to Cheryl Rogers and her deceased husband.
www.prwebdirect.com /releases/2005/5/prweb235237.htm   (543 words)

  
 The Anniston Star - Four law teams to join forces in new PCB litigation
Celebrity attorney Johnnie Cochran, and Jere Beasley, a Montgomery attorney who specializes in high-profile personal injury/class action lawsuits, say they and two other law firms intend to join forces to file a new PCB pollution case against Monsanto Co.
A statement Thursday afternoon from Beasley's law firm said the four firms that will work together on the case are the Cochran firm, a national litigation firm; Beasley, Allen of Montgomery; Burr and Foreman of Birmingham; and Shelby and Cartee, also of Birmingham.
A spokesman for Beasley's firm said the four law firms will join forces in the case because "the firms involved expect to do battle on a number of different fronts, and to properly address the needs of the large number of residents involved required the combined efforts and resources of the four firms."
www.annistonstar.com /news/2001/as-calhoun-1026-ebluemink-1j25x1516.htm   (497 words)

  
 The Anniston Star » Voters should consider history in court race
Among the worst offenders is slick Montgomery trial lawyer Jere Beasley.
Through the years, the Beasley firm has run literally millions of dollars through PAC transfers to hide their own ungodly influence in the Supreme Court race.
Beasley has publicly declared his opposition to PAC transfers again and again, but few if any have run more money through more PAC'S than Beasley and his firm.
www.annistonstar.com /opinion/2006/as-columns-1015-0-6j14w4225.htm   (912 words)

  
 Key figures in the first federal Vioxx trial - Arthritis - MSNBC.com
Born in Tyler, Texas, and raised in Alabama, Beasley was the state’s lieutenant governor from 1971-1979 and filled in for Gov. George Wallace for 20 days in 1972 when Wallace was hospitalized for the shooting that left him disabled.
Beasley founded his Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles law firm in Montgomery, Ala., after he lost a 1978 gubernatorial run.
Beasley also was among 27 lawyers who secured a $300 million settlement from Monsanto Co. in a federal lawsuit over PCB contamination in Anniston, Ala.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/10438922   (665 words)

  
 Auburn University News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
AUBURN – Jere Beasley, the senior member of the firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C., will be the Lowder Visiting Executive in the Auburn University College of Business on Tuesday, March 8.
A 1959 graduate of Auburn, Beasley has practiced law as an advocate for victims of wrongdoing since being admitted to the Alabama Bar in 1962.
Beasley has appeared as a lecturer throughout the country at numerous legal seminars and other events and has been profiled in Time, Business Week, and other noted publications.
www.ocm.auburn.edu /news_releases/beasley.html   (383 words)

  
 LawFuel - The Law News Network
According to attorney Jere Beasley, whose firm Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles (http://www.beasleyallen.com) in Montgomery, Alabama, represents Ms.
In 2000, amid rising concerns that its painkiller Vioxx posed heart risks, Merck overruled one of its own scientists after he suggested that a patient in a clinical trial had probably died of a heart attack.
Beasley Allen is spearheading the review of over 31,000 claims against the manufacturers of Bextra, Celebrex, and Vioxx, having filed 161 cases to date.
www.lawfuel.com /show-release.asp?ID=3070   (464 words)

  
 Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C. Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C. - Attorneys at Law
In 1978, Jere Locke Beasley founded the firm, which is now known as Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. From 1970 through 1978, he served as lieutenant governor of the state of Alabama, and for a short period as governor.
Beasley Allen is the largest plaintiff’s law firm in the country whose offices are located in one city.
beasleytech.com /about   (513 words)

  
 Jere Beasley - Wikipedia, wolna encyklopedia
Paradoksalnie Jere Beasley, były wicegubernator i gubernator jednego z amerykańskich stanów, znany jest głównie nie jako polityk, ale jako prawnik.
Beasley jest bowiem starszym współwłaścicielem znanej firmy prawniczej Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, P.C, która od roku 1962 stała się jedną z największych i najważniejszych w kraju kancelarii prawników procesowych (trial attorneys).
Jere Beasley jest żonaty w Sara Baker, pochodzącą z Adamsville (także w Alabamie).
pl.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jere_Beasley   (371 words)

  
 AVALA
Montgomery, AL, June 10, 2003 -- Alabama Voters Against Lawsuit Abuse today questioned Gov. Bob Riley's hiring of notorious Montgomery trial lawyer Jere Beasley to represent him in round 2 of the Exxon Mobil lawsuit to be held October 20.
Beasley will link with the Mobile firm of Robert Cunningham, which extracted a $4.3 billion award, the largest in state history, against Exxon Mobil in December 2000 in a dispute over gas royalties.
Riley, whose son works for Beasley, wanted his own lawyer in the case and it was announced Monday he has hired Beasley.
www.alabamalawsuitabuse.org /news/release_061003.cfm   (338 words)

  
 Meat Industry INSIGHTS News Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Attorney Jere Beasley contended the Hobart Corporation of Ohio knew its model 5700 Meat cutter was dangerous.
Beasley says the slanted blade unpredictably snatches meat and pulls it into the blade so fast operators do not have time to remove their hands before their fingers become entangled in the saw blade.
Beasley, of Beasley, Wilson, Allen, Main and Crow, of Montgomery, says Scoggins was awarded $510,000 in compensatory damages and $10 million in punitive damages.
www.spcnetwork.com /mii/1997/970853.HTM   (229 words)

  
 'Vioxx' goes federal
Both Kent W. Jarrell, a spokesman for Merck's defense team, and Libby J. Rayborn, administrative assistant for lead plaintiff's lawyer Jere L. Beasley of Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles of Montgomery, Ala., said that the parties would respect U.S. District Judge Eldon E. Fallon's request not to discuss the case before the verdict.
Beasley and Birchfield claim that Fallon already has given them favorable rulings despite Merck's representations that the judge would not accept "our experts and liability theories," and that the results of their client's autopsy also "are favorable to our position on causation."
In addition, the plaintiffs plan to use Merck's own studies to show that the company's statement that a patient would have to have taken Vioxx for a minimum of 18 months to increase the risk of heart attacks is a "myth.
www.law.com /jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1132740312526   (1109 words)

  
 COX-2 Drug Resources & Lawsuit Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. Headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, Beasley Allen is one of the largest law firms in the United States.
Beasley Allen is currently reviewing over 31,000 claims against the manufacturers of Bextra, Celebrex, and Vioxx, having filed 161 cases to date.
"Beasley Allen is committed to working on the massive problems caused to hundreds of thousands of people who trusted Merck to put a safe product on the market and who later learned that they had been betrayed," says Birchfield.
www.cox2-legal.com /about.php   (888 words)

  
 TIME.com: WHERE THE TORTS BLOSSOM -- Mar. 20, 1995 -- Page 1
The lawyer was Jere Beasley, who was once the Clayton High School quarterback and twice the lieutenant governor.
Beasley?" The judge was William Robertson, 51, a former law partner of Beasley's, and a protege in Little League baseball ("He was a hero we looked up to," the judge says of Beasley).
Last week, as the House of Representatives voted for legal-reform measures as part of a Republican pledge to stanch the tide of frivolous lawsuits and to rein in society's litigious ways, the anecdotal evidence of the reformers' nightmares was nowhere stronger than in Barbour County.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,982699-1,00.html   (687 words)

  
 SR.com: New Vioxx trial looms
Lawyers Andy Birchfield, left, and Jere Beasley talk about the upcoming federal Vioxx trial during a news conference last week, in Montgomery, Ala.
Whether Merck and Co.'s once-lucrative drug led to his death lies at the center of the third Vioxx-related case in the nation to face a jury, and the first to do so in federal court.
Merck is pretty cocky, which is fine," said Jere Beasley, former Alabama lieutenant governor who will lead his Montgomery, Ala.
www.spokesmanreview.com /tools/story_pf.asp?ID=103096   (517 words)

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