Located in beautiful Bozeman, Montana, the Beck Law Office opened on January 2, 1982. The law practice concentrated immediately upon serving and representing injured workers, consumers and small businesses. Throughout the 1980's, the Firm represented hundreds of consumers and injured workers in front of administrative agencies, state and federal courts. The Firm practice concentrated primarily on employees's rights, workers's compensation and personal injury litigation.
In the 1990's, the Firm represented individuals in several highly publicized cases. For example, the Firm represented a rural Montanan who contracted AIDS while receiving a blood transfusion in a Portland hospital. The case garnered nationwide attention with Mr. Beck appearing on programs such as the CBS Morning Show, NBC Dateline, and the PBS series Frontline. Some of the Firm's cases have had a profound effect on the law of Montana, including cases which established the right to compare the plaintiff's negligence with the combined negligence of all defendants in a case (North v. Bundy); the right not to have a verdict rendered against a person who is not a defendant in the case (Newville v. Dept. of FS); the right to receive information from corporate defendants regarding other injuries caused by similar defective products (Preston v. District Court); the right to exclude evidence of inflammatory, prejudicial and irrelevant collateral matters not going to the merits of the case (Durden v. HydroFlame); the right to have a product defect case tried on the condition of the product rather than on the foreseeable conduct of the victim (Lutz v. National Crane); and the recognition of the right to receive compensation for emotional distress arising out of false accusation of theft and employment discharge (Niles v. American Eye Care). In each of these cases, the highest goal was to represent citizens in obtaining fair and impartial resolution of their cases.
The Firm continues to specialize in product liability, automobile design defect, environmental pollution cases, medical negligence, insurance claims and railroad and aviation liability.
