Courtroom Cowboy: The Life of Legal Trailblazer Jim Beasley

He was a high school dropout driving a Greyhound bus when, on an impulse, Jim Beasley decided to change his destiny. He left the bus station behind and 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. Intensely private and driven, Beasley was both eloquent and profane, a public figure with many secrets. In a page-turning narrative, veteran journalist Ralph Cipriano, one of Beasley's most notorious clients, tells the gripping story of the consummate Philadelphia lawyer.