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Martin Garbus is one of the country's leading trial lawyers.   Mr. Garbus aggressively represents his clients in litigation in the courts and in the media.   He has appeared before the United States Supreme Court as well as the highest state and federal courts in the nation.   His devotion to ethics, justice and the law has earned him respect among the legal community and beyond as well as prominent awards.   Time Magazine has named him "legendary . . . one of the best trial lawyers in the country," while Newsweek , the National Law Journal and other media agree that Mr. Garbus is America's "most prominent First Amendment lawyer," with an "extraordinarily diverse practice."   The National Law Journal named him one of the country's top ten litigators.

Notable among the many cases Mr. Garbus is currently handling are the following:

• Represents Terry McMillan in a First Amendment case with accusations against a lawyer.
• Represents a New York Times journalist sued by Jane Pauley.
• Martin Garbus represents Don Imus in a dispute with CBS.

Recently, Mr. Garbus prepared to appear in Federal Court before a jury in a copyright infringement suit against hip-hop and rap star, Eminem (also known as Marshall Mathers).   Mr. Garbus represented a composer whose music was copied without authorization and used in the song Kill You , the first track on The Marshall Mathers LP .   That album, Eminem's second, enjoyed commercial sales of over 16,000,000 CDs, making it number one in CD sales in 2001. The case was settled.

Currently, Mr. Garbus is also representing employees in a class action employment discrimination suit challenging President Bush's "faith based" initiative and flight attendants in a labor dispute against their union and American Airlines.   Both cases are to be tried in Federal Court.   Mr. Garbus will try another jury case in New York State Court that involves damage to a $20,000,000 painting by one of America's greatest artists.   In a recent personal injury suit against American Airlines, Mr. Garbus won a jury award of $26,000,000, one of the largest awards at that time.

Mr. Garbus most recently was confronted by yet another challenge from a then-unfamiliar source, the Internet.   Pioneering the legal future of the digital age, Mr. Garbus represented Eric Corley, The Electronic Frontier Foundation in the Open Source Movement in the first copyright case to be tried under the new Digital Millennium Copyright Act.   That landmark intellectual property case, involving the Motion Picture Association of America, became a battle where First Amendment and copyright values clashed, permanently affecting the art, movie, music and DVD industry, including the rights of MP3 and IPOD owners.

He is presently working on a future book about his experiences in China since 1976, which involved, among other things, 12 visits, representing clients in Beijing through a Chinese office, and teaching about intellectual property and copyright law at a leading Chinese university.   More information about his books can be found here.

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