John was born in Princeton, NJ
and was raised in the
Philadelphia, PA area.  He
graduated from Auburn
University with a business degree
and a minor in mathematics in
addition to major classwork in
the engineering program.

While attending law school in
Virginia Beach, VA, he did
summer work for several local
cotton growers in Baldwin and the
surrounding counties as a cotton
scout and soon realized he would
call South Alabama his home.
                          About John Beck
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In 1995 John joined the Baldwin County District Attorney's office as a
full-time prosecutor and handled all child sex-abuse, domestic violence,
and juvenile cases.  In 1998, John opened up his own law practice
focusing exclusively on all matters of criminal defense.

Over the past 11 years John has served as the regional vice-president for
the Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the
Secretary/Treasurer for the Mobile Criminal Defense Lawyers
Association, and the president of the Baldwin County Criminal Defense
Lawyers Association.

John has handled many high-profile cases in Mobile and Baldwin
Counties as well as several thousand felony and misdemeanor cases in
our local court system.

John has recently been named to a select list of attorneys for inclusion
as a 2010 inductee to "Best Lawyers" in America.

John, his wife Leslie, and their three children live in beautiful Fairhope,
Alabama.