Effective January 1, 2014, the law practice of Janet E. Martinez, P.A. merged with ShuffieldLowman, a full-service business law firm headquartered in downtown Orlando with an office located in downtown Tavares... and now, in beautiful downtown Deland.

 

Janet E. Martinez joins ShuffieldLowman as its newest partner and will continue as the principal attorney leading the Deland office, now with a team of experienced and dedicated lawyers behind her offering a wide variety of legal knowledge.

 

Areas of legal experience include:

 

Corporate law	Tax Planning and Controversy
Estate Planning and probate	Intellectual property
Commercial and civil litigation	Environmental Law
Securities	Bankruptcy and creditors' rights
Guardianship and elder law	Patent licensing
Real estate	Non-profit organization law
Banking and finance	Land use and government law
Merges and acquisitions	Trademarks and copyrights
Labor and employment

Ms. Martinez graduated summa cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1975 and received her law degree from Yale Law School in 1978. She began her legal career in London, England, working in the areas of international tax law and expatriate tax planning. In 1979, she continued her work in the international tax field in Moscow, U.S.S.R. where she helped foreign business representatives seek the proper application of newly passed Soviet tax rules to their businesses. She returned to London in 1980 as an independent tax consultant to Fulbright & Jaworski's London office. In 1981, she moved back to the United States and practiced first in Washington, D.C., then Portland, Maine before moving to Florida in 1988. She founded her own law firm in DeLand, Florida in 2003.

 

Throughout her over thirty years of legal practice, Ms. Martinez has focused on tax, estate, and business succession planning, the provision of tax planning advice to businesses, non-profit organizations and private foundations, and the administration of trusts and estates. Fluent in Spanish, Ms. Martinez provides bi-lingual legal services throughout Volusia County and the Central Florida area.

Janet E. Martinez, P. A.

Attorney-at-Law

To contact us:

203 East Rich Avenue

DeLand, Florida 32724

 

Telephone: (386) 736-9225

Telecopier: (386) 736-9265

 

Email: jmartinez@shuffieldlowman.com

Bar Memberships

Florida, Maine, District of Columbia

Awards

Above and Beyond Award, presented by the Volusia County Bar Association and Pro Bono Program of Mid-Florida, September, 2007 for pro bono legal services to the underprivileged.

Janet E. Martinez, Esq.