Attorneys

Partner

Randolph A. Mayer

Randolph Mayer has been a practicing attorney in Atlanta for more than 30 years. His career has spanned diverse areas of the law, including partnership and business dissolutions, insurance claims, employment issues, white collar criminal allegations, fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, and serious and catastrophic injury.

Mr. Mayer's experience and reputation as a litigator have led to an active mediation and arbitration practice. He was one of the first attorneys in Atlanta to offer alternative dispute resolution services, and his success in this arena is built on longstanding relationships with plaintiffs and defense lawyers, as well as his capacity for diffusing contentious situations in order to move the parties toward resolution. Mr. Mayer handles mediations in numerous areas of the law but specializes in disputes affecting law and accounting firms, including malpractice, partnership dissolution, Title VII and sexual harassment claims. He has also served as a special master and is regularly called as an expert witness on matters specific to the practice of law, particularly attorneys' fees and legal malpractice.

Mr. Mayer has lectured extensively and chaired seminars on topics including abusive litigation, closing arguments, mediation advocacy, business torts, damages, jury selection, direct examinations and defamation.

Partner

Mark Harper

Mark Harper is highly successful as a trial lawyer in defense of white collar and other criminal charges in federal and state court. He also has handled many complex personal injury matters emphasizing trucking injuries, premises liability, governmental torts, sexual harassment, wrongful death, will and probate disputes, civil rights, unsafe food and drug purveyors and products liability. He has successfully defended a number of corporate employees from criminal charges potentially implicating their employers and represented governmental employees in disciplinary proceedings.

Education

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
B.A., Economics

Affiliations & Qualifications

• Admitted to the State Bar of Georgia

ASSOCIATE

Allen Lightcap

Allen Lightcap focuses his practice on preparing for and taking cases to trial. As Randy Mayer and Mark Harper have taught him over the years, the best way to practice law is to know your case better than anyone else. Allen prepares every case as if he will be presenting it to a judge or jury, which adds tremendous value whether in settlement negotiations or at trial.

Prior to joining Mayer & Harper, Allen served as Assistant Attorney General under Georgia Attorney General Sam Olens. In that capacity, he represented the Professional Standards Commission against numerous teachers implicated in the Atlanta Public Schools CRCT cheating scandal. He also defended a class action lawsuit filed against Governor Nathan Deal and the Public Defender Standards Council, asserting widespread claims of ineffective assistance of counsel in a rural Georgia judicial circuit. He represented the Office of Bar Admissions and Board to Determine Fitness of Bar Applicants and successfully represented numerous superior court judges who were sued in their judicial capacities.

Education

EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
Juris Doctor, 2012

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
B.A., Individualized study with concentration in politics, 2006

Affiliations & Qualifications

• Assistant Attorney General, State of Georgia

• Legal Intern, Supreme Court of Georgia, Chambers of Chief Justice Carol Hunstein

• Lawyers' Club of Atlanta

• Georgia Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Leadership Academy, 2015

• Admitted to the State Bar of Georgia