In the Matter of Matthew Jason Anderson

── In the Matter of Matthew Jason Anderson ── Court: Supreme Court of Georgia Date: May 19, 2026 Category: General NOTICE: This opinion is subject to modification resulting from motions for reconsideration under Supreme Court Rule 27, the Court’s reconsideration, and editorial revisions by the Reporter of Decisions. The version of the opinion published in the Advance Sheets for the Georgia Reports, designated as the “Final Copy,” will replace any prior version on the Court’s website and docket. A bound volume of the Georgia Reports will contain the final and official text of the opinion. In the Supreme Court of Georgia No. S26Y0638 In the Matter of Matthew Jason Anderson Decided: May 19, 2026 PER CURIAM. This disciplinary matter is before the Court on a Notice of Discipline encompassing four separate grievances and seeking to disbar Matthew Jason Anderson (State Bar No. 765493) based on his violations of Rules 1.4(a)(4), 1.15(I)(b) and (c), 1.15(II)(a), 1.15(III)(a), 8.1, and 8.4(a)(4) of the of Georgia Rules of Profes- sional Conduct (“Rules”), see Bar Rule 4-102(d). The Bar has filed a “Proof of Service,” establishing that Anderson was served with the Notice of Discipline by publication in compliance with Bar Rule 4-203.1(b)(3)(ii). Anderson, who is currently suspended from the practice of law for his failure to respond to the Notice of In- vestigation served on him in connection with several of these cases, failed to timely reject the Notice of Discipline. Therefore, he is in default, has no right to any evidentiary hearing, and is subject to discipline and further proceedings as may be deter- mined by this Court. See Bar Rule 4-208.1(b). As noted above, this Notice of Discipline arose from four separate grievances that were filed against Anderson in 2024 and 2025. Although the facts in each situation are slightly different, generally, the facts show that Anderson, who has been a member of the Bar since 2019, agreed to represent various clients in per- sonal injury actions and obtained settlements on behalf of those clients. Anderson was aware as these cases progressed that his clients either had or would be obtaining services from medical providers, and that the payment for those services would ulti- mately need to come from the settlement funds. In 2023 and 2024, Anderson settled these clients’ cases but failed, in all four cases, to distribute the settlement funds to one or more of the medical providers as he had agreed to do, and, in one case, he failed to distribute to his client the portion of settlement funds due to that client. In two cases, Anderson failed to respond to his clients’ re- peated requests for information about the status of their cases, including the status of the payments to their medical providers. In one case, he told his client, and later claimed in a sworn re- sponse to that client’s Bar grievance, that he had paid the client’s outstanding medical bills when he had not done so. Additionally, the Bar’s investigation of these grievances revealed that, during the pertinent time frame, Anderson did not have a properly con- stituted trust account that complied with the Rules. Based on these facts, which are deemed admitted by An- derson’s failure to reject the Notice of Discipline, the Bar con- tends, and we agree, that Anderson violated Rule 1.4(a)(4)1 by failing to promptly comply with his two clients’ requests for infor- mation about the status of their cases, including the status of the payment of their medical bills; Rule 1.15(I)(b) 2 by disregarding 1 Rule 1.4(a)(4) provides that “[a] lawyer shall promptly comply with reasonable request