Marc W. Brown, co-chair of the firm’s national Business and Commercial Group, is an experienced commercial litigator and one of the foremost real estate title litigation and coverage attorneys practicing in New York State and Pennsylvania, and as pro hac vice counsel for out of state clients who seek his expertise. Marc’s practice also includes real property tax certiorari proceedings, contractual disputes, personal injury, and collection enforcement, and he is called upon by attorneys across the country as an expert witness in real estate title disputes and professional liability matters. In addition, he has experience in professional liability matters relating to commercial and residential real estate transactions. Marc has represented counsel before the Attorney Grievance Committee, and he has represented restaurants in high profile disputes with their landlords and before municipal boards in response to a serious incident. He has extensive appellate experience, having argued approximately 20 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. A past chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Title Insurance Litigation Committee, Marc is widely regarded as among the top title insurance litigators, with a reputation built on handling seven-, eight-, and nine-figure title disputes involving large commercial real estate projects in the nation’s hottest construction and development markets. In addition, Marc is an adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo Law School, teaching a full semester Real Estate Litigation course to second and third year law students.

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. Consistently recognized for his commercial litigation experience by Best Lawyers in America and Super Lawyers (in both Upstate and Metro New York), in 2019 Marc received Business Journal’s Influencers: Law distinction, reserved for the top 100 most influential lawyers in the country.

Marc currently serves on the University at Buffalo Law School Dean Advisory Council and the Binghamton University Harpur College National Law Advisory Council Steering Committee. He is also actively involved in a number of civic organizations, including as the vice president, campaign chair and member of the Board of Governors for the Buffalo Jewish Federation, and as the treasurer for the Va’ad HaKashrut of Buffalo.

While pursuing his bachelor’s degree and master’s of business administration at Binghamton University, Marc interned at the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, and at the U.S. House of Representatives for Congressman Bill Paxon. Additionally, during his semester abroad with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Marc interned for the Mayor of Jerusalem and Peace Watch, a watchdog group that monitored the implementations of the Oslo Accords. While pursuing his J.D. at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School, Marc clerked at the U.S. 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.