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amartinez@becker-poliakoff.com
Professional Experience
Ms. Martinez Molina, a commercial litigator practicing law since 1988, primarily represents clients in the transportation and hospitality industries, including foreign air carriers, freight forwarders, insurance companies and major hotel franchisees. Her representation ranges from aviation and creditor issues to litigation arising out of breaches of contract, employment disputes and other commercial matters.
A clerk for the Honorable Burton R. Lifland, Chief Bankruptcy Judge for the Southern District of New York during her third year at Columbia Law School, Ms. Martinez Molina devotes a substantial percentage of her practice to creditors in a variety of reorganizations and bankruptcies in South Florida as well as New York. This experience includes successfully defending preference litigation actions through trial, representing creditors in adversary proceedings to prevent the discharge of amounts owed to them, representing committees of unsecured creditors and otherwise advising non-bankruptcy attorneys in discreet issues relating to bankruptcy actions.
Ms. Martinez Molina, fully bilingual in Spanish and conversant in French and Brazilian Portuguese, has substantial experience representing foreign countries and foreign government owned entities in cases brought in the courts of the United States. As such, she has experience litigating Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, Hague Convention issues and other challenges inherent in matters involving foreign entities. Her experience abroad includes working as a translator (French to English)in Belgium.
Activities and Memberships
Ms. Martinez Molina is active in the Princeton University alumni organizations. She is a member of the board of the Princeton Club of South Florida and has served on Princeton’s Committee to Nominate Trustees, the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council and Annual Giving, among others. She served previously as an assistant editor of the American Bar Association’s Air and Space Law Journal. The mother of two young children, Ms Martinez Molina is Vice President of the Coral Gables Elementary PTA.
Bar Admissions
Connecticut
New York
Florida
Court Admissions
Southern District of Florida
Middle District of Florida
Southern District of New York
United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Language
Spanish (fluent)
Portuguese (conversant)
French (conversant)
Education
J.D., Columbia Law School, 1988
A.B., Princeton University, 1985 |
