Biography
Mr. Martin is a senior member of the Firm’s Managing Committee, and head of the Valuation, Condemnation and Tax Certiorari Practice Group. He is also a member of our Litigation and Appellate Practice Groups. In addition, Mr. Martin has served as a Westchester County Supervisor and as Councilman for the City of Yonkers.
With the Firm for nearly 50 years, Mr. Martin has tried and won
precedent-setting property tax assessment cases representing major
department store chains, shopping centers and large industrial facilities.
He has successfully defended clients’ contractual rights with oil
company dealers, as well as commercial free speech before the New
York Court of Appeals. He has won major property tax cases on behalf
of hundreds of others. He has successfully litigated constitutional
due process, freedom of speech and eminent domain claims through
the New York Court of Appeals and in the Second and Third Circuit
Courts of Appeal of the United States. He recently argued and won
a landmark decision in the New York Court of Appeals establishing
the constitutionality of Video Lottery Terminals at New York race
tracks.
Mr. Martin has lectured on various legal issues at the International Conference of the Lincoln Land Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, Harness Tracks of America (Florida and Arizona), the Institute for Professionals in Taxation and the American Bar Association.
Education
- Columbia University (LL.B., 1957) (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar)
- College of the Holy Cross (B.A., 1954) (cum laude)
Memberships
Mr. Martin is a member of the Westchester County, New York State and American Bar Associations.
Admissions
- New York
- U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York
- U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits
- U.S. Court of Military Appeals
- U.S. Tax Court
- U.S. Supreme Court
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