Gary Becker

Founding Attorney at Becker Law Office
Louisville, KY

About Gary Becker

Gary Becker (deceased) was the founding member of Becker Law Office in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a trailblazer in legal advertising and believed lawyers had constitutional rights to commercial free speech.

Becker attended Indiana University. He was admitted to practice in Kentucky.

In 1985, he shifted from representing insurance companies and corporations to exclusively serving everyday people against wealthy and powerful entities. After retiring from law practice in 2004, he established a charitable foundation supporting hundreds of individuals through philanthropic work.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Becker Law Office

These results are credited to Becker Law Office. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

After a neurosurgeon slipped on a wet hospital pantry floor and developed reflex sympathetic dystrophy that ended his surgical career, an Evansville jury found St. Mary's Medical Center fully at fault and awarded $16.95 million, a verdict the Indiana Court of Appeals later affirmed.

Vanderburgh Superior Court, Evansville, Indiana · 2001Slip & FallRead the full story →
$5.8 millionVerdict

A retired Connecticut school principal who developed invasive breast cancer while taking Wyeth's hormone drug Prempro won a $5.8 million failure-to-warn verdict that the trial judge refused to cut.

U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut · 2012Product LiabilityRead the full story →

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

Practice areas

Education

Indiana University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Kentucky
Kentucky Justice Association
Louisville Bar Association
American Association for Justice

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