F. Lee Bailey on Jim Beasley:
“If I had big trouble, who would I choose to represent me? Jim Beasley would have made the list of every Titan of the Trial Court who knew of him. He was top shelf, always.”
F. Lee Bailey on Courtroom Cowboy:
“Ralph Cipriano has brought Jim Beasley back to life, jumping off [...]
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“ANYBODY BUT BEASLEY” OR HOW I LEARNED TO LOVE THE ANTICHRIST
AT THE PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, WHERE I WORKED AS A REPORTER, JIM BEASLEY WAS so feared and despised that my editors called him the antichrist. Beasley was the king of libel suits who had made a career out of suing the Inquirer; he was notorious for [...]
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THE LAWYERS IN THE HOTEL BALLROOM WERE YAWNING AND NODDING OFF AS THE seminar speaker, S. Gerald Litvin, droned on with his lecture about how to construct a closing argument. When Litvin was finally through, moderator got up to say a few words about the next speaker, who had pointedly asked for [...]
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COURTROOM COWBOY, which took three years to write, was culled from a hundred interviews and thousands of pages of trial transcripts and court records.
The book could not have been written without the cooperation of the many Philadelphia judges and lawyers who generously shared their vivid memories of Jim Beasley, including: Richard A. Sprague, District [...]
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For those of you who missed it, the Philadelphia Inquirer ran a review of Courtroom Cowboy that wasn’t complimentary:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/36744679.html
Here’s what Frank Wilson, former Inky books editor, had to say about the review on his blog:I think I might take issue with one detail of the Beasley review: “By the time his case settled, Cipriano writes, ‘I was so [...]
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Jim Beasley was a high school dropout driving a Greyhound bus when, on an impulse, he decided to change his destiny. He enrolled in Temple University and then its law school on the GI Bill. It was a fateful choice for Beasley and for hundreds of clients who would need a warrior to fight for [...]
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