Thomas J. Methvin Managing Partner, Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C. www.beasleyallen.com

Walter Mosley Author of The Long Fall: The First Leonid McGill Mystery www.waltermosley.com

Co-host Jack Girardi Girardi & Keese www.girardikeese.net

Tom Methvin, managing shareholder of Beasley Allen, is a champion of the victims of consumer fraud and other injustices. In this powerful interview, he discusses important issues involving asbestos litigation and public safety.

Tom is a national spokesman for the rights of consumers and the law that applies to their rights. He has appeared on "Good Morning America," "The O'Reilly Factor," and on all the major networks to discuss these issues. He also has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Magazine, and Fortune Magazine. He was the lead lawyer in a landmark predatory lending case involving a door-to-door sales and finance scam. The verdict of $581 million is the largest predatory lending verdict in American history. As a result of this litigation, the defendant finance company left the State of Alabama.

Tom was also co-counsel in other consumer fraud cases resulting in verdicts of $50 million, $45 million, $34.5 million, $25.4 million and $15 million. Tom has tried a total of thirteen cases that have resulted in verdicts in excess of one million dollars. In 2002, Tom was selected by the National Law Journal as one of the Top 40 Litigators in the country under the age of 40. Tom also was named by the Montgomery Advertiser as one of the "Top 40 under 40," which is a list of the top 40 business leaders in Central Alabama under the age of 40. In 2006, Tom was honored by his peers by being chosen one of the Best Lawyers in America. In July of 2007, Tom was featured in Fortune Magazine as one of America's Premier Lawyers. Tom was also featured in Business Alabama Magazine. Also in 2007, Tom was chosen by Birmingham Magazine as one of the Best Lawyers in Alabama in the field of personal injury and mass torts. Tom was recently selected to Alabama Super Lawyers 2008 in the area of Consumer Fraud.
Tom additionally serves on the Boards of the following charitable organizations: Let God Arise Ministries, a prison ministry; Brantwood Children's Home, a home for abused and neglected children; the Center for Progress and Opportunity, headed by former U.S. Senator John Edwards, which explores ways to expand opportunity for all underprivileged Americans; and the Cystic Fibrosis Advisory Panel, which helps fight the terrible disease of CF.

Tom graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in Corporate Finance in the Business School. He then earned his law degree from Cumberland School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama in 1988 and began his legal career at Beasley Allen that same year. Tom's family has been involved in the practice of law for over 200 years. Tom always knew he wanted to be an attorney.

Walter Mosley is one of the most versatile and admired writers in America today. He is the author of more than 29 critically acclaimed books, including the major bestselling mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins. His work has been translated into 21 languages and includes literary fiction, science fiction, political monographs, and a young adult novel. His short fiction has been widely published, and his nonfiction has appeared in The New York Times Magazine and The Nation, among other publications. He is the winner of numerous awards, including an O. Henry Award, a Grammy and PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
In his latest novel, The Long Fall, Walter introduces us to Leonid McGill, an ex-boxer and hard drinker. In a business that trades mostly in cash and favors: McGill’s an old-school P.I. working a city that’s gotten fancy all around him. Fancy or not, he has always managed to get by—keep a roof over the head of his wife and kids, and still manage a little fun on the side—mostly because he’s never been above taking a shady job for a quick buck. But like the city itself, McGill is turning over a new leaf, “decided to go from crooked to slightly bent.”

New York City in the twenty-first century is a city full of secrets—and still a place that reacts when you know where to poke and which string to pull. That’s exactly the kind of thing Leonid McGill knows how to do. As soon as The Long Fall begins, with McGill calling in old markers and greasing NYPD palms to unearth some seemingly harmless information for a high-paying client, he learns that even in this cleaned-up city, his commitment to the straight and narrow is going to be constantly tested.

Jack Girardi, Partner at Girardi & Keese, one of America’s Finest Law Firms, and lawyers, as always, brings out the most important key elements to the success of today’s guests.  He and his firm have been dedicated to working hard and getting the best possible recovery for its clients.

Girardi & Keese's mission is to provide aggressive representation of individuals and businesses who have been injured in some way, whether by physical harm, property damage, damage to business, or damage to economic interests. Girardi & Keese has two offices in California: Downtown Los Angeles and San Bernardino.
 

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Contact:

Thomas J. Methvin
800-898-2034
Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.
http://www.beasleyallen.com/attorney/tom-methvin/

Walter Mosley
http://www.waltermosley.com/

Jack Girardi
213-977-0211
www.girardikeese.net

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STEVE MURPHY

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