Mark D. Meliski

Making It Right With Experience And Skill

Experience

Mark has been a partner at Barnes Law Group since he joined the firm in 2017. Having spent the first fifteen years of his career representing doctors and hospitals in medical malpractice actions, since 2017 Mark has used that experience to help those who have been harmed by malpractice. Mark is a 1999 graduate of the University of North Carolina, and a 2003 graduate of Georgia State University School of Law, where he also served as Lead Editor on the Georgia State Law Review.

In his career before joining Barnes Law Group, Mark served as either first or second chair in over thirty malpractice trials. Since joining BLG, Mark has taken a number of malpractice and other personal injury matters to trial, securing verdicts in each of those cases on behalf of his clients. Over the last two years at Barnes Law Group, Mark has helped secure verdicts at trial of $8.5 million as the lead counsel in the matter of Sain v. Preferred Women’s Healthcare et al., (CAFN 14-C-03749-2)(2022) and $10.6 million as lead counsel in the matter of Sorenson v. Piedmont Hospital, Inc., et al., (CAFN 20-EV-005574) (2023). Over the span of his first six years at Barnes Law Group, Mark has recovered over $40 million for his clients in medical malpractice and general personal injury cases.

For his work, Mark has long been recognized as one of the top malpractice attorneys in the state, first as a Georgia Rising Star and most recently as a Superlawyer. He has also been asked to speak to multiple trade and industry groups, judges, and lawyers on a variety of issues faced by parties involved in medical malpractice litigation.

Mark is a resident of Smyrna, Georgia, where he lives with his wife Heather, their two sons Cooper and Davis, and their two rescue pups, Petunia and Banana. When he is not in the courtroom, Mark is usually on the baseball diamond or football field coaching his boys.

Notable cases

$10.6 Million Verdict – Sorenson v. Piedmont Hospital, Inc., et al., State Court of Fulton County – Medical Malpractice feeding tube misplacement, 2023

$8.5 Million Verdict – Sain v. Preferred Women’s Healthcare, et al., State Court of Gwinnett County – Medical Malpractice case of failure to diagnose and treat ovarian cancer, 2022

$7 Million medical malpractice settlement, failure to diagnose and treat acute heart attack in the hospital, 2019

$4.6 Million settlement, failure to treat cauda equina syndrome, 2023

$4.6 Million settlement, auto accident with below knew amputation, 2021

$1.5 Million settlement, slip and fall at an apartment complex resulting in traumatic brain injury, 2021

$1.2 Million settlement, first party insurance claim resulting from property damage to private residence, 2020

$1.1 Million Florida medical malpractice settlement, failure to diagnose cancer, 2022

$1 Million medical malpractice settlement, failure to diagnose and treat pulmonary embolus, 2019

$1 Million medical malpractice settlement, failure to diagnose breast cancer, 2018

$1 Million settlement, auto accident caused by driver driving under the influence, 2018