Retired Partners
Retired attorneys Randy Wolter and Bruce Beeman remain of counsel, offering their invaluable legal expertise to the firm.
Randall Wolter
A graduate of the University Of Illinois School Of Law and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, Randall (Randy) 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 industry, and represented the company in civil litigation. As counsel for Continental Bank he handled over two hundred state and federal court 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 related to interstate banking, workers’ compensation, the development of overseas business offices marketing Illinois products, tourism, the development of a Chicago container port, and job training were passed into law during or shortly after this period.
Randall returned to the private practice of law in 1981 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 18 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, have 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.
Since 1981 Randall Wolter has obtained over $60 million for his clients. He has been an 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 (Panther Creek Country Club) and Orlando, Florida (Black Bear Country Club).
Randall remains an of counsel attorney with Wolter, Beeman, Lynch & Dennis, LLP.
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. In 1990, Bruce 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. Beeman has been selected annually 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. Bruce is a member of the Illinois State Bar as well as the Illinois and American Trial Lawyers Associations. Beeman is admitted to practice before the Illinois Supreme Court, United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, and the United States Supreme Court.
Bruce Beeman
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. 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. 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 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. 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.
Bruce remains an of counsel attorney at Wolter, Beeman, Lynch, and Dennis, LLP.