Law School - Jones School of Law
Bar Admission - 4/29/1983
Law Office Locations:
Montgomery
Geographic Areas Served:
All Alabama Counties, Beasley Allen also handles cases throughout the United States.
Overview
In 1979, Greg Allen began working for Jere Beasley as his first law clerk, right after Beasley opened his private practice. In the beginning, he worked at the law office for free, hoping to gain experience while attending law school.
Today, Greg Allen is a shareholder and leader at Beasley Allen Law Firm. In December 2010, he was named one of the firm's Litigators of the Decade.
Alabama and U.S. District Court, Middle, Southern and Northern Districts of Alabama (1983)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit (1983)
Areas of Practice:
Products Injury
Personal Injury
Product Liability
Admissions:
Alabama and U.S. District Court, Middle, Southern and Northern Districts of Alabama (1983)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit (1983)
Member:
Montgomery County and American Bar Associations
Alabama State Bar
Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association (Member: Board of Directors, 1983-1991; Secretary, 1990; President, 1992)
Alabama Association for Justice (Member 1987- Board of Governors, 1987-1990; Member, Executive Committee, 1992-1996)
American Association for Justice
Alabama Association for Justice Journal (Chairman Editorial Board)
Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
AIEG Board of Directors
Montgomery Downtown Redevelopment Authority (Chairman)
Public Justice Foundation
Biography
Greg is a past president of the Montgomery Trial Lawyers Association and has been on the executive committee for the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association for a number of years. In addition to being a member of the board of directors for the Attorney's Information Exchange Group (AIEG), Greg is currently the chairman of the journal committee of the Alabama Association for Justice. He is a member of the Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. Greg enjoys taking on the giant corporations on behalf of people who have been seriously injured, especially in difficult and technical cases.
Experience
Greg Allen has been involved in many product liability cases that have resulted in substantial verdicts and settlements. He was the lead attorney in a claim against General Motors, in which the jury, after two weeks of trial, awarded $122 million for Greg's client, a brain-damaged child. The case later settled for a confidential amount. The National Law Journal featured this case as one of the top ten verdicts for 2002.
Greg has tried cases which have resulted in verdicts of $114.5 million, $26.25 million, $13.5 million, $12 million and $11.75 million. He has had a number of eight-figure settlements and many seven-figure verdicts and settlements. He was featured in Lawyers Weekly USA for obtaining a settlement in the amount of $1 million, in which the damage to the client was an injury to one foot. He proved significant wrongdoing on the part of the defendant. In 2003, Greg was the lead attorney in a $12 million record verdict in Lamar County, Alabama against Pro Tech, involving a defective product. In 2007 Greg settled two cases for severely injured clients where the total of the two settlements exceeded $30 million.
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