Courtroom Cowboy

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 them.

In the courtroom, Beasley was a scrapper, standing up for the underdog and winning more million-dollar verdicts than any other trial lawyer in the country. In tribute, the Temple University Law School now bears his name.

Outside the courtroom, Beasley fed his appetite for adventure, hunting big game in Africa and barnstorming as an air-show pilot, flying World War II fighter planes. In a page-turning narrative, veteran reporter Ralph Cipriano tells the story of the consumate Philadelphia lawyer.

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