Top Attorney – Martin E. Karlinsky

Mr. Karlinsky is the founder and managing partner of Karlinsky LLC, a firm he launched in July 2012. He is admitted to practice law in the  Supreme Court of the United States; United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Federal Circuits; United States Tax Court; United States District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Northern, and Western Districts of New York, Eastern District of Michigan, and Central and Northern Districts of California; New York State Bar; California State Bar; District of Columbia Bar.

In a career spanning almost four decades, Martin E. Karlinsky has been on the forefront of cutting-edge business, commercial and civil litigation. The touchstones of his career have been the focused attention he brings to his clients and their matters, his devotion to the practice of trial and appellate advocacy at the highest levels, and his commitment to giving back to the community.

Mr. Karlinsky has represented individuals, business organizations, fiduciaries, beneficiaries, financial institutions, and not-for profit entities in matters involving business disputes and business torts, contracts and commercial law, securities and corporate law, employment (especially in the financial services industry), trusts and estates law, partnership and real estate disputes, and in constitutional litigation, including defamation. He has extensive and broad experience in trial and appellate advocacy, in governmental investigations and proceedings, in arbitration and mediation before all principal U.S. forums, and in legal counseling and governance matters for both businesses and not for-profit organizations.

Mr. Karlinsky is a seasoned trial lawyer with over 160 jury and bench trials, arbitrations, and appeals, and regularly teaches trial advocacy to both law students and his peers. A graduate of New York University and the University of San Francisco School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the Moot Court Board and awarded Roscoe Pound Prize for Highest Excellence in Appellate Advocacy; Dean’s List, and a full-time extern clerk to the Hon. William H. Orrick, Jr., Judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Mr. Karlinsky has practiced in some of New York’s best-known law firms. He is a member of the American Bar Association – Section of Litigation; the Federal Bar Council, Public Service Committee; the New York State Bar Association, Commercial and Federal Litigation Committee.

Mr. Karlinsky holds the coveted Peer Review Rated as AV®Preeminent™, the top performance rating under Martindale-Hubbell’s peer review lawyer rating system, he was selected a New York Super Lawyer in Business Litigation from 2005 to the present. (New York Super Lawyers rates and ranks the top 5% of New York lawyers.) he actively teaches trial advocacy, both to lawyers and law students, since 1992, and since 1995 with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and awarded honorary fellowship, June 2009, by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, for service to the University and the community.

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