Yager, Charlene L.

Omar Mason recently joined Montgomery Barnett’s New Orleans office in 2012.  Mr. Mason is a native New Orleanian.  After graduating from LSU, 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.  He then joined Lynn Luker & Associates 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, 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’s practice with Montgomery Barnett is a conglomerate of the wide range of areas in which he has gained invaluable legal experience in his over 13 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.

Mr. Mason firmly believes in the philosophy of “one client, one case, one issue at a time,” to ensure that his clients get the most effective representation possible.