Ms Linda Martin > Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

Ms Linda Martin

212 277 4017 linda.martin@freshfields.com

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Linda is a partner in the firm’s dispute resolution practice and co-head of our global class and collective actions group. Linda has extensive experience resolving complex and cross-border commercial disputes across a broad range of industries and practice areas, and in all stages of business dispute resolution, including litigation, arbitration and mediation. Based in New York, she appears regularly in federal, state and bankruptcy courts across the United States.

Career

Linda’s clients are global in scope, and she is particularly adept at helping them navigate multinational challenges, especially those arising from the overlapping and sometimes conflicting procedural, factual and regulatory regimes in which they operate. She also works frequently with our transactional and finance teams in advising corporate executives and boards on transaction-related litigation risk and corporate governance matters.

Memberships

• Board of Visitors, Duke University School of Law
• Chairperson Emeritus, Board of Directors, Children’s Tumor Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to funding research and finding a cure for neurofibromatosis
• Former President, Board of Directors, Duke University Law Alumni Association
• Former Co-Chair, Board of Directors, DukeNY, a tri-state alumni association for graduates of Duke

Education

Linda received her JD, cum laude, from Duke University School of Law, where she is on the Board of Visitors and was an editor for the Duke Law Journal, and her BA, cum laude, from Harvard University.