Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP

Arthur B.L. Martin is a senior partner and has practiced law in Atlanta since 1950, joining Morris, Manning & Martin in 1984.

Throughout his legal career, Mr. Martin has focused his attention in the area of real estate development and finance. He has been involved in many substantial transactions that have brought about positive growth and change in the Atlanta area. He has used his unique negotiating skills and practical knowledge of real estate law to represent the area’s leading financial lending institutions and developers and operators of shopping centers, office parks, commercial buildings and apartments.

One of Mr. Martin’s most unusual assignments involved negotiation for construction of the Atlanta Financial Center, an 18-story office building built in the path of a proposed major highway and rapid rail transit line. Mr. Martin represented the building owners in negotiation of easements, air rights, conveyances and other concessions required for minimal disruption of the property owners’ business adjoining the highway right-of-way. His efforts resulted in the construction of a tunnel under the Atlanta Financial Center for highway and rapid rail tracks.

Mr. Martin serves his clients through a unique combination of attributes and finely honed skills, a profound understanding of complicated real estate law, an established network of contacts with leaders in the business and political communities and a sensitivity in bringing the appropriate parties together to initiate, finance, develop and construct major projects.

Honors and Affiliations

Lawyers Club of Atlanta

International Counsel of Shopping Centers

Mortgage Bankers Association of America

Member of National Kidney Foundation of Georgia Golf Committee (golf fund-raising events)

Board of Trustees and Past Chairman of Board of Visitors, The Schenck School

Board of Directors, Saint Joseph’s Mercy Foundation

Board of Trustees, A.G. Rhodes Home

Board of Advisors, Atlanta International School

Member of Session, Chairman of Finance Committee, Peachtree Presbyterian Church

Founder and Chairman of the Board, The 300 Club of Atlanta (a non-profit service organization in support of local police officers and firefighters)