Lance Lourie is a highly respected trial attorney with nearly four decades of experience representing individuals and families harmed by medical negligence, nursing home abuse, and other serious personal injuries. Joining Cunningham Bounds as a partner in January 2026, Lance brings deep courtroom experience, strategic insight, and a career-long commitment to holding physicians, hospitals, nursing homes and other institutions and corporations accountable when their misconduct causes devastating harm.
Lance's interest in law began when he was working for his father, a lawyer and public servant who served in the South Carolina Legislature and spent his career as a tenacious advocate for the rights of common people. This foundation instilled in Lance a lifelong dedication to fighting for those who need a voice.
Lance focuses his practice on complex medical malpractice, elder neglect and abuse, wrongful death, and personal injury cases. For the first twelve years of his legal career, he represented hospitals, physicians, and corporate defendants in medical malpractice and other liability claims. That experience now provides a powerful advantage for his clients, giving him a unique, inside understanding of how healthcare providers, insurers, and large institutions evaluate risk, prepare cases, and defend claims. For more than two decades, Lance has devoted his practice exclusively to representing injured individuals and their families, using that knowledge to secure meaningful results.
Throughout his career, Lance has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars on behalf of his clients and has earned a reputation for strategic thinking, meticulous preparation, and personal dedication. He is known not only for his trial skills, but for his integrity and credibility with courts, juries, and opposing counsel.
Lance is an active leader in the legal profession. He has served as Vice President at Large and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association. He is a frequent speaker and contributor at continuing legal education programs nationwide, presenting on topics including trial strategy, discovery, medical malpractice, nursing home litigation, and complex personal injury cases. He has also been called upon to testify a number of times before legislative committees on issues involving elder abuse and neglect, as well as medical malpractice.
Beyond his legal practice, Lance has served on the Board of The Interfaith Children's Movement since 2010, an interfaith organization that advocates with respect to issues affecting children, particularly children in lower socioeconomic communities.
Outside the courtroom, Lance enjoys spending time with his wife, Robin—also an attorney—and their family. His interests include boating, fishing, and time at the beach.
Featured Results
- $600 million whistleblower case involving Botox marketing; Allergan Inc. paid $600 million to settle a federal investigation
- $40 million medical malpractice verdict involving medical negligence resulting in the tragic loss of life
- $18+ million truck accident settlement involving quadriplegia
- $15+ million nursing home abuse verdict involving severe dehydration and infected pressure sores
- $7.9 million settlement for third-degree burns arising from a plant explosion
- $7.7 million pedestrian and car accident settlement involving a drunk driver, resulting in brain damage and quadriplegia
- $5.5 million medical malpractice settlement for failure to diagnose cervical fractures resulting in quadriplegia
- $5 million sexual abuse settlement involving abuse by a respite care worker
- $4.75 million settlement on behalf of the family of a patient who choked while in a facility
- $4 million nursing home abuse settlement involving femur fracture and death
- $4 million settlement on behalf of the family of a patient who died due to failure to recognize and treat an impending heart attack
- $4 million settlement for a man whose eye was severely burned by improperly mixed medication prepared by a compounding pharmacy
- $3.7 million government liability verdict for negligent roadway maintenance resulting in severe injury and death
- $3.5 million nursing home negligence settlement involving death from physical restraint
- $3.5 million assisted living verdict in favor of the family of a resident attacked by ants
- $2.9 million products liability settlement involving severe burn injuries caused by a defective frying pan
- $2.8 million medical malpractice settlement involving spinal hardware resulting in quadriplegia
- $2.7 million assisted living abuse settlement resulting in death
- $2.5 million medical malpractice wrongful death settlement
- $2.225 million settlement on behalf of the family of a woman who died due to an untreated bowel obstruction
- $2.225 million settlement against a hospital for failure to properly treat declining respiratory status
- $2.2 million medical malpractice settlement for failure to diagnose an impending myocardial infarction
- $2.05 million construction litigation settlement involving stormwater runoff causing a motor vehicle accident and loss of limb
- $2.025 million government liability settlement involving civil rights violations and medical negligence
- $2 million nursing home negligence verdict involving amputation of leg
- $2 million nursing home negligence settlement involving decubitus ulcers
- $2 million medical malpractice settlement involving failure to diagnose encephalitis
- $1.9 million medical malpractice settlement for failure to treat mental illness resulting in suicide
- $1.7 million government liability verdict involving civil rights violations
- $1.6 million medical malpractice settlement involving TB meningitis
- $1.4 million assisted living wrongful death settlement
- $1.3 million medical malpractice settlement for failure to timely deliver a baby by C-section
- $1.2 million nursing home negligence settlement involving decubitus ulcers
- $1.1 million government liability settlement involving negligent roadway maintenance
- $1 million truck collision settlement involving severe burn injuries
- $1 million nursing home negligence wrongful death settlement
- $1 million settlement for the family of a man who fell in a hospital resulting in brain injury and death
- $900,000 nursing home negligence settlement involving infected bed sores
Handled the landmark appellate decision Edwards v. Department of Children & Youth Services, 271 Ga. 890, 525 S.E.2d 83 (2000), establishing that medical negligence cases against the State are not barred by the Georgia Tort Claims Act.
Recognition & Awards
- Georgia Super Lawyers
- The National Trial Lawyers – Top 100
- America's Top 100 Medical Malpractice Litigators
- Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent® rating
