Ken Besser | Baltimore Personal and Business Lawyer
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About Ken
The venerable “wise old man” at Lifecycle Law, Ken has over 40 years of experience starting up and managing small businesses and over 25 years as lawyer, attorney, counselor, and consultant. After serving as not one but two law review editors and earning his JD, Ken practiced with one of the premier legal firms in Memphis before starting his own law firm and eventually taking his family to Columbus, Ohio; Modi’in, Israel; and then Baltimore, Maryland. After drafting patents in Israel, Ken was hired as the founding head of a new Jerusalem-based debt collection subsidiary of an international telephone conglomerate, which he started from scratch and developed to full operation within 24 days after being tasked with the project by the majority shareholder and CEO of the publicly traded corporation. He wrote a textbook for debt collectors, "Debt Collection 101," the copyright of which was purchased by American Collectors Association International. Ken has also served as a debt collection consultant for a Tennessee bank and several debt collection participants.
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Experience
Founder and Senior Lawyer
Lifecycle Law
Present
Shareholder
The Besser Law Firm, P.C.
1993 - Present
Associate
Burch Porter & Johnson, PLLC
1990 - 1993
Administrative Editor
Law Review, University of Memphis
1989 - 1990
Research Editor
Law Review, University of Memphis
1989 - 1990
Law Clerk
Holiday Corporation
1988 - 1988
Admission
Maryland
2017
Ohio
1996
Tennessee
1990
Education
University of MS Medical School
Left after two years to stay married to a doctor (Medicine)
Did not graduate
Millsaps College
BS (Chemistry)
1981
Recognitions & Achievements
Associations
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Memphis Bar Association, Sole/Small Firm Section Section President2010 - 2011
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Tennessee Bar Association
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Maryland State Bar Association, Council member, Solo/Small Firm Section
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American Bar Association
Honors / Awards
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Lawyer of the Year, Ohio Educational Library Media Association2004
Notable Work
Cases
Besser Beats Major Memphis Hospital To Continue Medical Malpractice Case
This appeal involves a vicarious liability claim against a hospital based on the conduct of an emergency room physician. A patient and her husband filed a medical malpractice suit in the Circuit Court for Shelby County against a hospital and two physicians, one of whom had treated the patient in the hospital’s emergency room. Among other things, the complaint broadly alleged that the hospital was vicariously liable for the conduct of its agents. After the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed their claims against both physicians for the second time, the hospital sought the dismissal of the vicarious liability claims on the ground that the plaintiffs’ claims against its apparent agent, the emergency room physician, were barred by operation of law. The trial court granted the hospital’s motion, and the Court of Appeals affirmed the dismissal of the vicarious liability claims against the hospital. Abshure v. Upshaw, No. W2008-01486-COA-R3-CV, 2009 WL 690804, at *5 (Tenn. Ct. App. Mar. 17, 2009). We granted the Tenn. R. App. P. 11 application filed by the patient and her husband to determine whether their vicarious liability claims against the hospital should be dismissed under the facts of this case. We have determined that the lower courts erred by dismissing the vicarious liability claims against the hospital. Following this defeat, the Hospital entered into a confidential settlement with the Abshures.
Publications
NBI Seminar, Medical Malpractice
2012
The Memphis Lawyer, The Rookies' Roundtable
2011
Additional Info
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