Mason Lawlor

January 24, 2023 | Law.com

A federal magistrate judge stopped short of issuing the harshest requested sanctions in a dispute over the deletion of electronically stored information, finding that a failure to preserve the data did not equal an "intent to deprive" the plaintiffs of it.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

January 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online

A cataclysmic breakdown amongst two lawyers who collaborated in several medical malpractice cases is currently stuck in the Georgia State-wide Business Court, awaiting word on whether the plaintiffs' alleged termination of contract is actionable and constitutes a separate tort.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

January 20, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"I don't care how long you've been doing it; it's still an adrenaline rush," Barnes said of the moment went a jury is about to deliver its verdict.

By Mason Lawlor

6 minute read

January 19, 2023 | Law.com

The newly launched Legal Influencer Marketing Agency, or LIMA, represents online influencers who can help connect legal tech companies, universities and nonprofits to lawyers and law students through social media platforms like TikTok, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

January 13, 2023 | Daily Business Review

The case stems from the controversy over Black Lives Matter protests following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis during the summer of 2021.

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read

January 11, 2023 | Law.com

"What you did—collecting salary from the firm while sitting on your ass, except to find time to interview for another job—says everything one needs to know about your character," the text read, in part.

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read

January 06, 2023 | Daily Report Online

Total Care Community Living is on the hook for $118 million following a jury verdict reached last week which found the company negligent in allowing a severely disabled man in Macon to be abused by its employees at a day activity.

By Mason Lawlor

3 minute read

January 05, 2023 | Daily Business Review

"In this case, the school board has gone to great lengths—as the district court itself acknowledged—to accommodate LGBTQ students," the majority wrote.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

January 05, 2023 | Daily Report Online

"No amount of continuing legal education, seminars, reprimands, admonitions, fines, or other rehabilitative measures will cure or discourage this type of activity," the judge said.

By Mason Lawlor

5 minute read

December 29, 2022 | The Legal Intelligencer

Donohue said sua sponte consideration of issues "deprives counsel of the opportunity to brief and argue issues" and "disturbs the process of an orderly judicial decision making."

By Mason Lawlor

4 minute read