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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 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. 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 •
Fellow, West Virginia Bar Foundation • 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, a subsidiary of Washington 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 developed and directed the State’s 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 State’s economic development programs. He now serves on the
board of Vision Shared which works with the State’s development office on economic
development. 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. Mr. Martin is a member of
the Board of Directors for the Holy Family Hospital Foundation, which is the only
hospital that provides neo-natal care in Bethlehem, Palestine. He is also 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. | 
