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Omar K. Mason joined Montgomery Barnett’s New Orleans office in the fall of 2012. Mr. Mason is a native New Orleanian. After graduating from Louisiana State University in 1996, he attended and obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans. He began his law practice with Carter & Cates in 1999 where he focused primarily on plaintiff personal injury matters, class actions and complex litigation. While at Carter & Cates, Mr. Mason was part of the Plaintiffs trial team, representing a class of Louisiana smokers and former smokers in tobacco class action litigation. He later joined Lynn Luker & Associates, L.L.C. in 2003, representing business clients in the gaming industry and defending others against asbestos claims.. As a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. Mason relocated to Houston, Texas where he practiced for over six years with the law firm Johnson DeLuca Kurisky & Gould, P.C., representing business clients in the automobile sales industry as well as banking institutions and small businesses in litigation.  Realizing the strong potential and need for economic and social growth in his hometown, New Orleans, Mr. Mason and his family returned to the city in the early fall of 2012.. Mr. Mason is licensed to practice and has actively practiced law in the State of Louisiana for 15 years and in the State of Texas for over 8 years.  He is a member in good standing of the Louisiana State Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas, the National Bar Association, the Louis A. Martinet Legal Society, the Tulane University Inn of Court, the New Orleans Bar Association, the New Orleans Chapter of the Federal Bar Association and is admitted to practice before all state and federal courts in Louisiana and Texas.. Mr. Mason was a member of the 2013 inaugural class of the Collaborative Bar Leadership Academy, a joint program of the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Hispanic National Bar Association, the National Native American Bar Association and the National Asian Pacific Bar Association, designed to promote diversity in leadership of the various bar associations.  He is also an adjunct faculty member of the Tulane University Law School Trial Advocacy Program and has served on the faculty for the Tulane University Law School Winter Intercession Civil Litigation Pre-Trial Bootcamp.. Mr. Mason’s practice with Montgomery Barnett is a conglomerate of the wide range of areas in which he has gained invaluable legal experience in his nearly 14 years as a civil litigator.  He counsels his business clients, large and small, on risk management and the avoidable pitfalls of running a business, in an attempt to save them the time and expense of litigation.  However, when litigation ensues, he works tirelessly to help his clients navigate the sometimes rough terrain of legal proceedings.. Mr. Mason has always been active in his community, and throughout his life he has served in various leadership capacities.  From being head drum major of the McDonogh #35 Senior High School Marching Band, to serving as President of the Sigma Lambda (Alumni) Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., to being  National Advocate (chief legal advisor) of the Knights of Peter Claver, Inc. (a Fraternal Benefit Society of the Roman Catholic Church), Mr. Mason is a proven leader.  Now, he spends the majority of his time leading his clients down the path to making sound, well-informed business decisions, before, during and after litigation.

Ms. Stogner's commercial litigation practice focuses primarily on representing policyholders in an assortment of insurance coverage disputes, including those in the oil and gas industry seeking coverage under commercial general liability and well control policies. Ms. Stogner also represents oil and gas companies in other actions, including land contamination cases, pipeline disputes, and products liability litigation. Her prior experience includes assisting in the representation of a retailer and manufacturer in a redhibition and Louisiana Products Liability Act (LPLA) action, the representation of several different companies in defending slip and fall claims, the representation of multiple chemical manufacturers in thousands of personal injury lawsuits arising from unplanned releases, the representation of a power plant in a citizen’s suit challenging its Clean Air Act permit, the representation of a local university in obtaining Stafford Act funding after Katrina, and the representation of a construction company in Katrina levee breach litigation. In 2010, Ms. Stogner led a team of lawyers that reviewed more than 1 million documents over the course of 3 months in response to an administrative investigation by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Ms. Nix's practice consists primarily of commercial litigation in Louisiana state and federal courts with a focus on oil and gas and property-related disputes. Ms. Nix has handled a wide variety of contract disputes, property damage claims, insurance coverage disputes, expropriation claims, lender liability defense, trespass claims, unfair trade practices, class action defense, labor and employment matters, trade secret claims, personal injury and wrongful death claims, and complex claims of business misconduct, fraud, and civil RICO liability. Ms. Nix has represented individual and corporate clients in banking and finance, energy, construction, real estate, and a variety of small business entities.. Ms. Nix was a Dean’s List graduate at Louisiana State University where she received her B.A. in Communications in 2010. She then attended the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, where she graduated magna cum laude and earned her J.D. and Diploma in Comparative Law. Ms. Nix also received the Graduate Certificate in Energy Law and Policy and CALI Award for Excellence in International Petroleum Transactions.

An attorney in Frilot's Commercial Litigation Section, Mr. Fineran specializes in the representation of young and emerging businesses in litigation and transactional matters.. Mr. Fineran is an Adjunct Law Professor at the Loyola University College of Law, where he teaches Louisiana Civil Procedure. He is a co-author of Equity Research (Esq. Books 2011), a graduate-level finance textbook. His article, The Louisiana Road Home Program: A Path of Unintended Consequences, was published in the Spring 2007 Edition of the Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal. A standing member of the Advisory and Editorial Board for Esquire Books, Mr. Fineran was an editor of Louisiana Civil Procedure: Cases and Materials  by Blaine LeCesne,The Handbook on Louisiana Alternative Dispute Resolution Laws by Bobby Marzine Harges, and  Louisiana Evidence: Cases, Problems, and Materials by Bobby Marzine Harges and Russel Jones, textbooks used in several Louisiana law schools.. Mr. Fineran graduated magna cum laude from Loyola University College of Business in 2004, receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration. In 2007, Mr. Fineran graduated cum laude from Loyola University College of Law, earning both a Juris Doctorate degree and a Certificate in Civil and Common Law. He was a member of the Loyola Law Review and a William L. Crowe Scholar. He was also an extern for United States District Judge Ivan Lemelle in the Eastern District of Louisiana.. Mr. Fineran is licensed to practice in all Louisiana state and federal courts, including the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, as well as the United States Third Circuit Court of Appeals.