Alexia Roney is Senior Counsel at Freeman Mathis & Gary, LLP and is located in the Atlanta office. She is a member of the Data Security, Privacy & Technology, Government Law and Insurance Coverage practice sections. She specializes in insurance coverage, governmental liability and constitutional law.

Ms. Roney combines an expansive background in science, medicine and information technology with superb communication skills to unpack complicated legal and technological issues for a layman audience. Before entering law school, Ms. Roney served as a laboratory technician in the Department of Neurology at the University of Virginia and then worked with early internet service provider America Online (now AOL, Inc.) at its height.

In 1999, Ms. Roney attended the James E. Rogers School of Law at the University of Arizona, where she graduated magna cum laude in 2002. She subsequently moved to Atlanta, Georgia to serve as a judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia.

Georgia

• “Revisiting Koikos: The Eleventh Circuit re-interprets the word ‘occurrence’,” FMG BlogLine, 2025
• “India paves the way for functional and enforceable privacy laws with notification of the Digital Personal Data Protection Act rules,” FMG BlogLine, 2025
• “Advising your medical practitioner client: Misunderstandings in the legal landscape of correctional care,” Young Lawyers, 2019

• In Georgia, a recent defense verdict a constitutional law case against a nurse and her employer in a correctional case in the Northern District of Georgia. Ms. Roney drafted an early motion to dismiss which successfully dismissed all claims against one defendant and substantially narrowed the claims against the remaining defendants.
• In Georgia, Ms. Roney successfully defended the Georgia State Bar in two consecutive suits filed by an attorney on the issues of defamation and interference with business practices. The first, Ms. Roney resolved the suit on a motion to dismiss. In the second, Ms. Roney resolved the suit on a motion for summary judgment.
• In Michigan, Ms. Roney drafted an appeal to the Court of Appeals which reversed the judgment of a trial court to order surgery and established precedent which precludes prisoners from raising claims as third-party beneficiaries to a contract under that state law.

• “The Intersection of Cloud Computing and Big Data: 2013.” Presented at GA Law Practice Management 2014, October 2013,  Atlanta, GA
• “An Introduction to Cloud Computing for the Attorney.” Presented at American Prepaid Legal Services Institute conference, May 2013, Atlanta, GA
• “Cloud and Virtual Law: Ethics, Security and Issues for 2013.” Presented at Law Practice Management 2013, October 2012, Atlanta, GA
• “Cloud and Virtual Law: Ethics, Security and Issues for 2012.” Presented at Law Practice Management 2012, April 2012,  Atlanta, GA