A graduate of the University of Illinois School of Law and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Randall Wolter has practiced law in Illinois since 1974. As counsel for Trans Union Corporation he handled complex leasing agreements, developed contracts still being used by retailers and reporting agencies in the credit business and represented the company in civil litigation. As counsel for Continental Bank he handled over two hundred state and federal cases required to be filed in Cook County pursuant to national banking laws. In 1979 Randall was asked to serve as an economic advisor for Governor James Thompson and the Illinois General Assembly. Relocating to Springfield, Illinois, he served as Director of the Commission for Economic Development for two years. Recommendations he made regarding interstate banking, workers' compensation, the development of overseas business offices marketing Illinois products, tourism, the development of a Chicago container port, job training, etc., were passed into law during or shortly after this period. In 1981 Randall returned to the private practice of law and has since concentrated in personal injury, professional malpractice and workers' compensation. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association for 12 years and is a Barrister in the Lincoln/Douglas Inns of Court, a Fellow in the American Academy of Trial Counsel and a charter Fellow of the Litigation Council of America. He, as well as his partners, has annually been elected by his peers as a Leading Illinois Lawyer and Illinois Super Lawyer. In 2006 Mr. Wolter was awarded the Illinois State Bar Association's Tradition of Excellence Award. In 2001 Randall was named the first Northern Illinois University Central Illinois Alumni of the Year. The award was based primarily on his civic activities. Randall has served on the boards and as President of the Sangamon County Development Corporation, Railsplitters Sertoma, American Cancer Society, Lincolnfest, Inc., Big Brother/Big Sister and the Family Service Center. Since 1981 Mr. Wolter has obtained over thirty million dollars for his clients. He has been a frequent author and lecturer for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education and has taught economics and business law at the collegiate level. In addition to his many civic activities, Mr. Wolter has developed country club/residential developments in Springfield, Illinois and Orlando, Florida.

Bruce A. Beeman was born in California in 1947, graduated from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale in 1971, and received his Juris Doctor degree from The John Marshall Law School of Chicago in 1975. After serving Sangamon County, Illinois as an Assistant State’s Attorney and later as an Assistant Public Defender, Beeman practiced law as a partner at Scott, Beeman & Scott for 14 years. Over the years Beeman obtained “not guilty” jury verdicts in several significant and highly publicized criminal felony cases involving charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery, rape, burglary, sexual assault, and felony possession of a firearm. Bruce then turned his focus to civil law, obtaining several five and six figure jury awards in civil cases and negotiating settlements in other cases involving multiple millions of dollars. In 1990 Beeman formed the firm of Beeman Law Offices, P.C. Later that year Beeman obtained a $1,500,000 jury verdict in a motor vehicle collision case, then a record jury verdict in Sangamon County for a motor vehicle crash, which stood for the next eight years (Sangamon County Case # 88-L-302). In 1997 Beeman joined Randall A. Wolter and Francis J. Lynch to form the law firm of Wolter, Beeman & Lynch. In 1999 Beeman obtained a jury verdict for $24,300,000 in Sangamon County Circuit Court which was at that time the largest jury verdict ever obtained in the history of that court (Sangamon County Case # 93-L-58). In 2002 Beeman obtained a jury verdict of $807,948.96 in Mason County Circuit Court which was and remains the largest jury verdict ever obtained in the history of that court (Mason County Case # 00-L-11). On January 13, 2000, Beeman became the first attorney in history to obtain an Illinois Appellate court decision that a public defender can be held accountable for legal malpractice when representing an indigent defendant in a criminal case (312 Ill.App.3d 695 and 194 Ill.2d 493). In 2006 Beeman, together with his partner Francis J. Lynch, obtained a $24,473,000 jury verdict in Sangamon County which verdict eclipsed Bruce’s own former record jury verdict. The 2006 jury verdict of $24,473,000 was and remains the largest jury verdict ever obtained in the history of the Sangamon County Circuit Court (Sangamon County Case # 02-L-157). Beeman has successfully represented clients before the Illinois Supreme Court both as lead attorney (Buffalo, Dawson, Mechanicsburg Sewer Commission v. Boggs, 109 Ill.2d 397; Johnson v. Halloran, 194 Ill.2d 493), and as Amicus for the Illinois Numismatic and Precious Metal Dealer’s Association in Springfield Rare Coin Galleries v. Johnson, 115 Ill.2d 221. Beeman has been selected annually by as a Leading personal injury lawyer in the Leading Lawyer Network and as an Illinois Super Lawyer. Beeman has also been named as a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, has served as an author and as a speaker for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, and as a lecturer for Sangamon State University, now University of Illinois at Springfield. Beeman is a member of the Illinois State Bar as well as the Illinois and American Trial Lawyer’s Associations. Beeman is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court (1975), United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois (1975), and the United States Supreme Court (1978).

Frank Lynch was born and raised near Rockford, Illinois. He attended Boyland High School and Southern Illinois University. He graduated from SIU in three years with University Honors, appointment as the Student Presenter at the Departmental Colloquium on American fiction, and a Bachelors Degree in English. He attended Southern Illinois University School of Law. While at SIU he authored two articles which were published in the Southern Illinois Law Journal and became a lead articles’ editor for the journal in his third year. He received his JD in 1983. Frank worked as a litigator in the firm of Studach and Lynch, an in-house insurance defense law firm attached to First Financial Insurance Company and Special Insurance Services in Springfield, Illinois. In 1986 he became an associate with the Springfield office of Heyl, Royster, Voelker and Allen, a state-wide insurance defense firm. He practiced insurance defense litigation in the fields of automobile, premises, liquor, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, architectural malpractice and civil liability defense. He was made a partner in that firm in 1994. In 1997, two Springfield Plaintiffs’ attorneys, Bruce Beeman and Randy Wolter, asked Frank to join them in a Plaintiffs’ Litigation and Tort practice. Wolter, Beeman & Lynch now serves Springfield as a general litigation firm, concentrating in Plaintiffs’ trial work. The firm’s cases include: automobile accidents, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, professional liability, uninsured and underinsured motorist claims, premises liability, products liability, personal injuries, workers’ compensation injuries, liquor and DRAM shop liability and general jury trials. Frank has obtained numerous seven figure verdicts and settlements. With Bruce Beeman he obtained the highest jury verdict in Sangamon County history for over $24,000,000.00 arising out of an automobile accident. Frank has been a lecturer, speaker and author for the Southern Illinois Law Journal, Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education, the Illinois Defense Research Institute, the Illinois Bar Association and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Through the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education he has written on issues of evidence, trial procedure, discovery, and Illinois Workers’ Compensation Commission practice and procedure. Frank has been named an Illinois Leading Lawyer by the Leading Lawyers Network, an Illinois Super Lawyer by Illinois Super Lawyers magazine, and one of the top lawyers in Illinois as published in Chicago Lawyer. He is a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Frank has received the highest peer review rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and as a result of his rating, Wolter, Beeman & Lynch is an AV rated law firm. Frank is a member of the National Association of Eagle Scouts. He is a past board member, trustee member, and board president for the Springfield YMCA, and he continues to serve as a committee member and volunteer for that organization. For several years he has served as a community fund panel volunteer for the Springfield United Way.

Brent A. Beeman was born in Springfield, Illinois in 1979. Brent graduated from Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska in 2003. While an undergraduate at Creighton University Brent participated in a program sponsored by Creighton University in which he studied overseas at Trinity University, in Dublin, Ireland. Following graduation from Creighton, Brent attended Southern Illinois University School of Law in Carbondale, Illinois and was awarded a scholarship. Brent received his Juris Doctor degree from Southern Illinois School of Law in 2006. Brent was thereafter admitted to the Bar of Illinois in 2006. Brent is currently admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois and before the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois. Although Brent has successfully handled cases since 2006, his legal experience actually predates 2006 by many years. While in high school Brent worked at his father’s law office and became familiar with the courthouse and county offices. Prior to and while in law school Brent, with the permission of the presiding judges, sat at the counsel table and “second chaired” jury trials with his father, Bruce A. Beeman, in Cook, Macoupin, Montgomery, and Sangamon Counties. At this time Brent concentrates his practice in the representation of injured victims in personal injury and workers’ compensation cases.