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Martin Garbus is one of the country’s leading trial lawyers. He aggressively represents commercial and criminal clients in the courts and the public media. He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court as well as trial and appellate courts in the nation, in over 100 cases. www.martingarbus.com

The Guardian called him “one of the world’s finest trial lawyers”. In 2007, Business Week called him "legendary," “a ferocious lawyer who has received numerous media citations as one of America’s leading trial lawyers” and a "ferocious litigator;" Time Magazine named him "legendary, one of the best trial lawyers in the country." Fortune Magazine called him, "One of the nation's premier First Amendment attorneys," and "legendary," Reuters in 2009 called him a “famed lawyer” while other media have called him "America's most prominent First Amendment lawyer" with an "extraordinarily diverse practice" and "one of the country's top ten litigators. New York Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine, over the last twelve years have named him both as one of America’s best trial lawyers, and one of America’s best intellectual property lawyers.

Mr. Garbus's skill as a trial lawyer has earned his distinguished reputation as a result of his courtroom skills. He is an expert at every aspect of litigation and trial, from jury selection to cross-examination to summation. His cases have established new legal precedents in the Supreme Court and courts throughout the country.

Mr. Garbus, who taught trial practice at the Yale Law School and Constitutional law at Columbia, as well as in Beijing, China and Prague, Czech Republic is the author of six books and numerous articles, that have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and in legal publications. He has given hundreds of talks on various aspects of law before Bar Associations, corporations, law schools and CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN and other television and radio networks. His devotion to ethics, justice, free speech and the law has garnered respect among the legal community, commercial and corporate sectors, and beyond, earning him numerous honors, designations in Who’s Who in America, recently a Profile in the New York Times, Who’s Who in Best Lawyers in America as well as awards from his law school and college and praise from his numerous high-profile clients.