Doris L. Martin
111 Great Neck Road
Suite 503
Great Neck, NY 11021
Phone 516-393-2205
Fax 516-466-5964
dmartin@gwtlaw.com |
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Practice Groups
Business
Discharge Planning, Patient Rights and Elder Law(Co-Chair)
Finance and Real Estate
Personal Services and Estate Planning(Chair)
Tax(Chair)
Year Joined
1994
Education
New York University School of Law (J.D., 1987),
Executive Editor of Law Review,
Smith College (A.B., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 1984)
Bar Admission(s)
New York, 1988
Court Admission(s)
New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division
Bar Affiliation(s)
New York State Bar Association
Nassau County Bar Association
American Bar Association
Biography
Doris L. Martin is a partner at Garfunkel, Wild & Travis, P.C., where she heads the Personal Services and Estate Planning Practice, Discharge Planning - Patient Rights and Elder Law as well and the Tax Groups. Ms. Martin advises clients on estate planning, administration, and litigation, charitable giving, tax-exempt organizations, and qualified retirement plans.
Since joining the firm in 1994, Ms. Martin’s practice has encompassed all aspects of estate planning, including asset protection, wills, revocable trusts, charitable trusts, insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, family limited partnerships, retirement plans, and asset allocation; all aspects of estate and trust administration, including probate; post-mortem planning, and estate tax returns, and the establishment and operation of tax-exempt organizations for individual clients and tax exempt organizations.
Ms. Martin has particular expertise in estate planning for physicians.
Ms. Martin frequently writes and lectures on estate planning.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Martin was an associate in the trust and estates departments at Paul, Weiss, Wharton, Rifkind & Garrison, LLP and Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett, LLP.
Ms. Martin is a past secretary of the Trusts, Estates and Surrogate’s Court Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of North Shore Child and Family Guidance Center, a mental health services provider to children and families. She now serves on the Board of Directors of the Tender Loving Care Foundation, devoted to improving the experience of parents with children in neonatal intensive care units. In addition, Ms. Martin is a member of the American Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, and the New York State Bar Association.
Ms. Martin received her A.B., cum laude, from Smith College in 1984, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. in 1987 from New York University School of Law, where she was the Executive Editor of the Law Review.
Presentations
Exempt Organizations: A Legal Guide , January 2007 (Melville, NY)
Publications:
Article: Make a Final Choice Yourself
Newsday "Ask the Expert" August 12 2006
Doris Martin: Who's Who in Tax Law
Long Island Business News, June 2006 |
