Published in 2006 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers magazine
By Bernard Edelman on May 26, 2005
What do Marvin Hagler, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson have in common? All have lost to Jimmy Binns. Not in the ring, but in the courtroom. In this arena, Binns is a champion.
An elegantly pinstriped, white-maned trial lawyer who drives a burgundy Jaguar, Binns has had a memorable 42-year career. A summary on his Web site of his legal experience runs a tight 13 pages. He is licensed to practice in 20 states and in Puerto Rico. He is admitted to all 11 Circuit Courts of Appeals. He has been lead or co-lead counsel in hundreds of antitrust, securities fraud, medical and legal malpractice, and white-collar criminal cases. He has represented several world champion boxers. He has defended 10 men charged with first-degree murder. It’s been quite a ride.
“I won one case where the prosecution had the gun, the bullets from the gun, and they had a confession,” he says in his tastefully appointed office in Blue Bell. “And I won. ‘Young man,’ the judge told my client, ‘you’re the luckiest man in the world.’”
Lucky he found Jimmy Binns.