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 Clarence
CEM Martin is a Shareholder at Martin & Seibert, L.C. and is the
third generation of his family to be a member of the firm. His Grandfather,
Clarence E. Martin, President of the American Bar Association in
1932-33, founded the firm in 1908.
Mr. Martin practices law in the areas of insurance
coverage issues, insurance defense litigation, electric utility
litigation, railroad defense litigation (FELA), products liability,
medical malpractice defense, toxic tort, and asbestos defense litigation
in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He also lobbies
on various issues, including insurance, litigation and civil justice
reform issues.
Mr. Martin is a former assistant counsel to the
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives
and Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice. He was Member
of the West Virginia House of Delegates from 1976-82.
Mr. Martin has taken leadership roles in a number
of professional and business organizations in West Virginia and
beyond. He was recently elected Chairperson for the West Virginia
State Chamber of Commerce. He has also served his communities in
the following capacities:
President of the West Virginia Bar Association
in 1991-92
Commissioner on the U.S. Commission on Agricultural
Workers from 1988-92
National Board of the American Board of Trial
Advocates from 1986-94
Board of Directors of the Defense Trial Counsel
of West Virginia from 1984-92, 2004-
Board of Directors of F & M Bank - Martinsburg
Board of Directors of the National Parks and
Conservation Association
Board of Directors of Shenandoah Gas
Board of Directors of the West Virginia Chamber
of Commerce
Board of Advisors for Shepherd College serving
as its Chair from 1990-92 and 1995-97
Board of Advisors for the Catholic University
of America School of Law
Member of the West Virginia Bar Foundation
Member of the West Virginia Law Institute
Member of the National Association of Railroad
Trial Counsel
In 1992 he was appointed to serve on the West Virginia
Council for Community and Economic Development, which develops and
directs the States economic development programs and was elected
its Secretary and served until 1995. He also chaired the West Virginia
Economic Development Foundation and the West Virginia Economic Development
Corporation, which are authorized by the Council as private funding
corporations for the States economic development programs. He served
as President of the Discover the REAL West Virginia Foundation from
its founding in 1993 through 2004. The DRWV Foundation works on
economic development and international trade with U.S. Senator John
D. Rockefeller, IV. He is also Chairman of the Berkeley County Roundhouse
Authority, which is restoring a historic railroad property. In 2003,
Mr. Martin was elected a fellow in the West Virginia Bar Foundation.
He also serves on the Berkeley County Development Authority and
Region 9 Planning and Development Council.
Mr. Martin is a member of the Board of Directors
for the Holy Family Hospital Foundation, which is the only hospital
to provide neo-natal care in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is also a
member of the John Carroll Society and president of the Washington-Baltimore
Chapter of the Patrons of the Arts in the Vatican Museums. In 2000,
Mr. Martin was invested in the Order of Malta as a Knight of Magisterial
Grace. In 2003 he was eleced to the Federal Associations Board of
Directors. In 2004 he was invested as a member of the Order of the
Holy Sepulchre and the Constantinian Order of St. George. These
are among the highest honors a Catholic layman can receive in recognition
of service to the church, community, and his profession. It is a
particular honor to have been invested in all three of these Orders.
He is qualified to practice before the U.S. Supreme
Court, West Virginia Supreme Court, U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeals
for the Third and Fourth Circuits, U.S. District Courts for the
Eastern and Middle Districts of Pennsylvania; Northern and Southern
Districts of West Virginia; District of Columbia and Eastern District
of Virginia, The Court of Appeals for Maryland, and The Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania.
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