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New Orleans, LA 70170-5100
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A partner in the firm's Tax, Trusts & Estates Practice Group, Ted Martin has more than 30 years of experience, concentrating in the areas of employee benefit plans, estate planning, and estate administration.  As chairman of the Trust Code Revision Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute, he has been the primary draftsman of important changes in Louisiana's law of trusts enacted during the last 20 years. 

Noteworthy

• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009 (Copyright 2008 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC) in the areas of Employee Benefits Law and Trusts and Estates (listed annually since 2003)
• Listed in the 2008 edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers in the area of Employee Benefits/ERISA (also listed in 2007)
• AV® Peer Review Rating in Martindale-Hubbell. CV, BV and AV are registered certification marks of Reed Elsevier Properties Inc., used in accordance with the Martindale-Hubbell certification procedures, standards and policies. Martindale-Hubbell is the facilitator of a peer review rating process. Ratings reflect the confidential opinions of members of the Bar and the Judiciary. Martindale-Hubbell Ratings fall into two categories—legal ability and general ethical standards.
• Board Certified Estate Planning and Administration Specialist by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization

News

• Sixty-Three Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2009; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
• Forty Jones Walker Attorneys Recognized in the 2008 Edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers
• Fifty-Two Jones Walker Attorneys Named in The Best Lawyers in America® 2008; Jones Walker Top-Listed in Louisiana
• Martin Elected Executive Vice President of New Orleans Opera Association
• Lelong, Ted Martin, and Belter Present at Tulane Family Business Center Wealth Management Seminar
• Forty-Seven Jones Walker Attorneys Listed in the 2007 Edition of Louisiana Super Lawyers; One In Top Ten, Four In Top Fifty, Two In Top Twenty-Five Women

Presentations

• "Conditional Charitable Donations in Louisiana", September 2008
• “Estate Planning with Retirement Benefits”, May 9, 2007
• "Sorting Out Community Property Rights in Employee Benefit Plans", November 17, 2006
• "Musmeci v. Schwegmann Giant Supermarkets", February 10, 2003, How to Make a Pension Plan Out of Makin' Groceries

Publications

• "Designing Louisiana Trusts to Invest for Total Return"
  49 Louisiana Bar Journal 366, 2002
• "Estate Planning with Employee Benefit Plans"
  Community Property, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, 2000

Memberships

• American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (Member, Employee Benefits Committee; Louisiana State Chairman, 1989–1994)
• Association of Employee Benefit Planners of New Orleans (Member, Board of Directors, 1999–2002; President, 2000–2001)
• Churchill Society of New Orleans (President of the Board, 2005–2008)
• Louisiana State Bar Association (Member, Section on Taxation)
• Louisiana State Law Institute (Council Member, 1990 to date; Trust Code Revision Committee Member, 1986 to date, Reporter, 1986–1991, and Chairman, 1991 to date)
• Loyola University's College of Music and Fine Arts (Music Visiting Committee, 2007)
• New Orleans Estate Planning Council (Member, Executive Committee, 1991–1998; President, 1996–1997)
• New Orleans Opera Association (Member, Board of Directors; Executive Vice President)
• St. Alphonsus Parish (Chair, Finance Committee)
• Tulane Planned Gifts Advisory Committee
• Tulane Shakespeare Festival (Member, Board of Directors)

Languages

• Some proficiency in French