Frank Beacham

OF COUNSEL

Frank Beacham is Of Counsel for Davis Lucas Carter. Frank’s practice focuses on employment law, local-government law, and water pollution litigation. Frank regularly advises human resource directors and business owners on preventing and avoiding litigation related to hiring, disciplining, and firing employees. His work for cities is wide ranging, but mostly involves planning, zoning, historic preservation, and drinking water supply issues.

Frank is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Georgia School of Law and a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Mechanical Engineering degree. Frank was a law clerk to the Honorable Harold L. Murphy, U. S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, from 2001-2003.

Prior to becoming of counsel, Frank was a partner for more than a dozen years at Brinson Askew Berry in Rome.

EDUCATION

University of Georgia School of Law, J.D., Magna Cum Laude
Recipient of the Sigmund Cohn Scholarship
Georgia Law Review: Editorial Board 1999-2000, Articles Editor 2000-2001
Georgia Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Mechanical Engineering

BAR AND COURT ADMISSIONS

State Bar of Georgia
Supreme Court of the United States
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
United States District Court, Northern District of Georgia
Supreme Court of Georgia
Georgia Court of Appeals
Superior Courts of Georgia

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND HONORS

Federal Defender Program, Inc., Board of Directors, Atlanta, 2017-2023
Magistrate Judge Merit Selection Panel, U.S. District Court for the N. Dist. of Georgia, Atlanta, 2006 – 2014
Sexual Assault Center of Northwest Georgia, Board of Directors or Legal Counsel, Rome, Ga., 2005 – present
Rated “AV Preeminent” in national attorney peer-review process (the highest possible rating)

FUN FACTS

Frank played rugby at Georgia Tech on a team that was ranked in the top 10 in the country.
On Tuesday and Thursday nights in Rome, you can often find Frank at a downtown establishment, playing guitar and singing in a five-piece acoustic band, Jessee & The Boys.