Becket More was founded in 2010 under the name Liguori Law, LLC. It was re-branded in 2016 as Becket More, PC. Although the name changed, the foundational principles are unchanging and unshakeable: to serve clients with the highest skill without sacrificing the honor and integrity elemental to our system of justice. The renaming the firm is meant to give homage and honor the legacies of its eponyms, Saints Thomas Becket and Thomas More.
St. Thomas Becket, also called Thomas à Becket or Thomas of London (born c. 1118, Cheapside, London, England; died December 29, 1170, Canterbury, Kent; canonized 1173; feast day December 29), was Chancellor of England (1155–62) and Archbishop of Canterbury (1162–70) during the reign of King Henry II.
Becket was a stalwart defender of the supremacy of the Universal Truth, and of the proper order of existence: of the eternal over the temporal, of the Church over the state, of the Rock of Peter over the shifting sands of change. He spoke truth to power when he quite publicly excommunicated four bishops for attempting to usurp the divine authority for the sake of the perishable crown of an earthly king and his passing kingdom. And for such courage in the face of inevitable persecution and death, he inherited an imperishable crown and a place of honor in the everlasting Kingdom of Heaven.
St. Thomas More, also called Sir Thomas More (born February 7, 1478, London, England; died July 6, 1535, London; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day June 22), was an English humanist and statesman, Chancellor of England (1529–32), who was beheaded for refusing to accept King Henry VIII as head of the schismatic Church of England.
Like Becket, More was uncompromising in his allegiance to the Universal Truth. He was “the King’s good servant, but God’s first.” When the former endeavored to supplant the laws of the latter, More stood tall in the face of persecution and the real threat of capital punishment. He gave his neck to the sword, but his soul to the Lord. For his relentless pursuit of justice and his willingness to sacrifice his own life for the greater moral good, he is venerated across the world as the patron saint of lawyers.
