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
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 Group and the Tax Group and is a member of the Discharge Planning - Patient Rights and Elder Law Group. Ms. Martin advises clients on estate planning, administration, and litigation, charitable giving, elder law, 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 wills, revocable trusts, charitable trusts, insurance trusts, qualified personal residence trusts, grantor retained annuity trusts, family limited partnerships, retirement plans, and asset protection; all aspects of estate and trust administration, including probate post-mortem planning, and estate tax returns; medicaid and elder law planning, 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 also served as 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.
Publications:
Documents Governing Health Care Decisions, New York Law Journal, September 22, 2008
Article: Make a Final Choice Yourself
Newsday "Ask the Expert" August 12, 2006
Honors
Long Island Business News - Ones to Watch in Retirement Issues (February 2009)
Long Island Business News - Who's Who in Tax and Bankruptcy Law (February 2008)
Long Island Business News - Who's Who in Tax Law (June 2006) |
