Marc W. Brown focuses his practice on business and commercial litigation. An experienced commercial litigator and one of the foremost real estate title litigation and coverage attorneys practicing in New York State, Marc’s practice also includes real property tax certiorari proceedings, contractual disputes, personal injury, and collection enforcement. In addition, he has experience in professional liability matters relating to commercial and residential real estate transactions. He has extensive appellate experience, having argued approximately 15 appeals across three of the four New York State Supreme Court Appellate Divisions, and is a former judicial clerk in the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth Department.

Highly regarded among his colleagues, Marc has received a peer-rating of AV Preeminent, the highest possible rating, from Martindale-Hubbell, as well as an AV Preeminent rating from the Martindale-Hubbell Judicial Edition, which reflects the opinions of members of the bar and judiciary.

Marc currently serves as president of the University at Buffalo Law School Alumni Association Board of Directors. He is also actively involved in a number of civic organizations, and is the current treasurer for the Va’ad HaKashrut of Buffalo as well as a committeeman for the Town of Amherst Republican Committee.

Prior to earning his juris doctor from the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Marc received his bachelor's and master's in business administration from the State University of New York at Binghamton, where he currently serves as a member of the National Law Advisory Council Steering Committee. While in law school, he clerked at the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of New York, as well as with the Hon. William M. Skretny, U.S. District Court for the Western District of New York. He also interned for the school’s Institute for Local Governance and Regional Growth to develop the first progress report of its State of the Region Project. During his third year, he served as president of the school's Moot Court Board, executive editor of the Human Rights Law Review, and as a member of the Jessup International Moot Court Board.

Honors

• The Best Lawyers in America, Litigation — Insurance, 2019
• Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2014–19, Rising Stars, 2013
• State University of New York at Buffalo Law School Alumni Association GOLD Group Honoree, 2017
• Top Rated Lawyer in Insurance Law, 2016–17, Construction, 2018, and Litigation, 2014 and 2019, American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell
• Martindale-Hubbell Judicial and Peer Review Rating: AV Preeminent
• Business First’s Legal Elite of Western New York (Commercial Litigation), 2014
• 40 Under Forty Award, Business First, 2012
• Up & Coming Attorney, The Daily Record, 2007
• New York State Bar Association Empire State Counsel, 2006
• Order of the Barristers National Honor Society, 1999
• Judge Matthew Jasen Appellate Practice Award, 1999
• State University of New York at Buffalo Law School Faculty Award for Excellence, 1999
• State University of New York at Buffalo Law School Alumni Association GOLD Group Student Leadership Award, 1999
• Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society, 1994
• State University of New York at Binghamton Award for Student Excellence, 1993

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association, Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section
•      General Committee Board Standing Committee, 2017–19
•      Title Insurance Litigation Committee
•           Chair, 2018–19
•           Chair-Elect, 2017–18
•           Treasurer, 2016–17
• Niagara Business Associates, 2013 to present

Admitted to Practice

• New York
• Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern, Northern, Southern, and Western Districts of New York
• U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern and Western Districts of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, Pro Hac Vice
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, Pro Hac Vice

Community Involvement

• State University of New York at Buffalo Law School Alumni Association
•       President, 2018–19
•       Executive Committee Member, 2014–15 and 2017–19
•       President-Elect, 2017–18
•       Treasurer, 2012–13 and 2015–16
•       Vice President 2013–15
•       Board of Directors Member, 2008–15
•       Assistant Treasurer, 2011–12
•       Assistant Secretary 2016–17
•       Oral History Project Committee Co-Chairman, 2009–13
•       Graduates of the Last Decade (GOLD) Group President, 2006–07
•       GOLD Group Board of Directors Member, 2001–08
• State University of New York at Binghamton, Harpur College
•       National Law Advisory Council Steering Committee, 2002 to present
•       Judaic Studies Advisory Council Steering Committee, 2011–13
•       Adjunct Instructor, 2010, 2012–15
• Kadimah School of Buffalo: Co-President, 2012–15; Board of Trustees Member, 2009–15
• Committeeman, Town of Amherst Republican Committee, 2008 to present
• Treasurer, Va’ad HaKashrut of Buffalo, 2009 to present

Education

• State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, J.D., 1999
• State University of New York at Binghamton, School of Management, M.B.A., 1996
• State University of New York at Binghamton, Harpur College, B.A., cum laude, 1995