Mason Lawlor

December 28, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"Associates get a lot of responsibility at the outset," Matthew Sellers, a fifth-year associate at Bondurant Mixson & Elmore, told the Daily Report. "I think this may be the honly anti-terrorism case we have, so it may be unusual in that respect, but it's not at all unusual for associates to get put on big cases and work closely with partners on moving them along."

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

December 26, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit ruled in a dispute between Florida poultry producers that a class action alleging violations of the state's fraud statute is not federally preempted.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

December 21, 2023 | Law.com

"They're a billion-dollar operation; I'm a small business," Charlie Gitto Jr., owner of the Missouri restaurant dubbed Charlie Gitto's From the Hill, told Law.com. "The average guy, they get out-lawyered and financially humiliated. I'm just thankful that Jim [Monafo] and Husch Blackwell came to rescue me, otherwise we're throwing popcorn against a brick wall."

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

December 19, 2023 | Law.com

"I feel that my skills as a counselor are called upon to stand up against antisemitism today," Ted Blum said.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

December 15, 2023 | Law.com

Parents had a "sufficiently personal stake" in the litigation to establish a standing to intervene in a records request.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

December 15, 2023 | Law.com

The London aviation insurance market could be in for a chaotic 2024, Steven Marks of Podhurst Orseck predicts, as reinsurers scramble to cover damages for aircraft crashes that are ballooning far more than planned.

By Mason Lawlor

6 minute read

December 14, 2023 | The Recorder

Defendants engaged in a reckless car chase that reached speeds of 120 miles per hour before colliding with father and son.

By Mason Lawlor

2 minute read

December 14, 2023 | Law.com

"From our reading of Mr. Vandergriff's complaint, several of the alleged actions and inactions that constituted the purported medical malpractice in the present case occurred after [April 14]," the appeals judge wrote. "The statute of limitations does not serve as bar to his lawsuit as to those incidents because Mr. Vandergriff filed his lawsuit within a year of their occurrence."

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

December 13, 2023 | Law.com

Although the Mississippi borrowing statute enforces a Louisiana prescription's barring of UM benefits if the claim accrued in Louisiana, the court found that it does not address which state's law would apply to any "substantive issues" in the case, that were not raised or decided in the trial court.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

December 13, 2023 | Daily Report Online

A federal lawsuit has accused Morehouse College in Atlanta of unlawfully dismissing a formal Title IX complaint of sexual assault against one of its students for allegedly adding a sexual stimulant to another student's alcohol without her knowledge in order to commit rape.

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read