Jack Beam

Proven Verdicts
Founder and Partner at Beam Legal Team LLC
Chicago, IL

About Jack Beam

Jack Beam founded Beam Legal Team LLC and has concentrated his practice on birth injury and medical malpractice litigation since 1983. He graduated with distinction from the University of Michigan with a degree in Political Science, earned undergraduate government credits at Harvard University, and received his law degree from Northwestern University School of Law, where he served on the editorial board of the Northwestern University Law Review. While in law school he apprenticed with Jim Dooley, widely recognized as the father of product liability law. Before entering private practice, Beam served as a staff attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program, Frauds Section of the Civil Division, recovering taxpayer funds under the False Claims Act from federal contractors.

He was later appointed by the U.S. Attorney in Delaware, prosecuting federal crimes including bank robbery, firearms violations, counterfeiting, and mail fraud, and eventually directed an FBI Strike Force focused on FHA/HUD program fraud. He subsequently spent years in private practice in Michigan and Colorado defending hospitals, physicians, and insurance companies before switching to plaintiff-side birth injury work. Working alongside Geoffrey N. Fieger, the Beam Legal Team has secured more than one billion dollars in combined verdicts and settlements for injured clients.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$97.4 millionVerdict

A Johnson County, Iowa jury awarded the family of an infant identified in court records by the initials S.K. $97.4 million in March 2022, finding an OB-GYN clinic and a hospital equally responsible for a delivery gone wrong at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City in August 2018. The verdict, then the largest medical malpractice award in Iowa history, followed a 14-day trial before Judge Kevin McKeever of the Sixth Judicial District. Mercy Hospital's share was capped at $7 million under a pretrial agreement, which the hospital paid; court filings put the clinic's share of the judgment at more than $75.6 million. The clinic, Obstetric & Gynecologic Associates of Iowa City and Coralville, P.C., did not pay, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in October 2022, saw that case dismissed the following April, and appealed. On November 8, 2024, the Iowa Supreme Court reversed the judgment against the clinic over an evidentiary error and ordered a new trial. Nothing currently stands against the clinic, and no new trial date has been reported.

Iowa District Court for Johnson County, Iowa City, Iowa · 2022Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Northwestern University School of Law
J.D.
University of Michigan
Undergraduate

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