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Trial Lawyer Garbus

Biography Clients Honors & Awards Public Speaking
 
 Honors and Awards  
 

Mr. Garbus has been the recipient of numerous honors. Among them are:
  • PEN International First Amendment Award 2007
  • Fullbright. Scholarship 2006-2011
  • The Lifetime Achievement Award from New York University Law School in 2004
  • Election to the Hunter College Hall of Fame in 1996
  • The Alumni Achievement Awards NYU Law School and Hunter College
  • Mr. Garbus serves on several boards, including the American Advisory Board of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts and The Creative Coalition. He has been a member of Bar Association Committees dealing with Civil and Criminal Law, Trademark, Intellectual Property, Estates, and the Media
  • Marquis Who's Who in America (2006 & prior years)
  • Marquis Who's Who in American Law (2006 & prior years)
  • New York Magazine - Best Lawyers in New York (2006 & prior years)
  • Super Lawyers, Multimedia Inc, (2006)
  • American Civil Liberties Award 2007
  • Claremont University Award as one of year's best non-fiction articles appearing in American Prospect 2004

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATION

  • Co-director, project jointly sponsored by the Office of Economic Opportunity and Columbia University entitled "Center of Social Policy and Law"
  • Member, Communications and Media Law Committee.
  • Criminal Law Committee, Copyright Law Committee.
  • The Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
  • Director, Roger Baldwin Foundation
  • Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union
  • Associate Director, American Civil Liberties Union

EDUCATION
  • New York University School of Law, J.D., 1959
  • Hunter College, B.A. 1955
  • Studied Economics at a Master's Degree program at Columbia University, Tax Law at New York University School of Law, and Russian and English Literature at the New School's Graduate Program
 

Trial lawyer Martin Garbus has diverse litigation experience
including copyright, intellectual property, commercial, corporate, criminal defense, First
Amendment, free speech, estates, class action, entertainment, libel, and internet law.