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Jim Beasley, Jr. of The Beasley Firm has been acknowledged as one of the top plaintiff’s attorneys in 2010 by Shook, Hardy & Bacon product liability and mass torts partner Mark Behrens and of counsel Cary Silverman in The Am Law Litigation ...

The Legal Intelligencer November 17, 2010 by Amaris Elliott-Engel The Pennsylvania Superior Court has upheld a $20 million award, including $15 million in punitive damages, given by a Philadelphia jury that found a plastic surgeon and a nur ...

On Oct. 25, 2007, David Moncrief underwent surgery at Chester County Hospital to remove a cyst from his left maxillary sinus. Moncrief was hoping the operation would relieve his migraine headaches. But after the surgery, the headaches remained, and M ...

The pretrial report from the defense’s expert witness, Kevin O’Connor, blamed the cause of the fatal accident on roadway deficiencies, rather than the negligence and recklessness of the defendant driver, Kenneth E. Smith. Nonsense, replied S ...

The city’s Mural Arts Program has included the five-story mural on the back of The Beasley Building in the city’s “Mural Mile” tour. The tour highlights 17 of the city’s “most iconic murals” along a two-mile walking route in Center City ...

The Philadelphia Inquirer August 18, 2009 By Edward Colimore Inquirer Staff Writer The 1,500-horsepower Rolls-Royce engine roared to life and the prop wash blew through the cockpit of the World War II fighter plane as Jim Beasley Jr. taxied to the en ...

Philadelphia Daily News August 17, 2009 By JASON NARK When you’re upside down in the cramped cockpit of a well-oiled relic with 1,500 horsepower keeping you between the clouds and death, it’s hard to believe that your pilot’s not a gamblin ...

Philadelphia magazine September 25, 2008 While his old man worked, the Kid usually spent the day screwing up. He skipped school. He chewed tobacco in the back of class. He learned Spanish like a knucklehead, retaining little more than that cáll ...

Philadelphia Daily News September 23, 2004 ALEGAL giant will be laid to rest today. But we’d be doing Jim Beasley a disservice if we were to recall him as a great “Philadelphia lawyer,” a moniker that may still carry a connotation for skill and ...

The Legal Intelligencer September 21, 2004 by Jeff Blumenthal James E. Beasley, 78, regarded by many as the top plaintiffs lawyer of his generation in Philadelphia, died Saturday of complications from lymphoma at the Hospital of the University of Pen ...