Jonathan M. Martone

Jonathan M. Martone provides strategic counsel to business and entrepreneurial clients, guiding them through daily operational matters and complex legal challenges.  

With a pragmatic, success-driven approach, Jonathan delivers smart legal solutions clearly and simply — helping clients move forward with confidence.

Corporate Counsel

As an entrepreneur himself co-founding an apparel company, Jonathan employs his legal and real-world experience in regularly counseling businesses with respect to a wide array of business matters, acting as outside general counsel to numerous clients on an ongoing basis.  Jonathan has significant experience advising and assisting clients with day-to-day business and operational needs, including contract negotiation and drafting, corporate formation, employment issues, real estate issues, intellectual property issues, and risk management on an industry-agnostic basis.

Commercial Litigation

Jonathan successfully represents businesses and individuals alike in all areas of business and commercial disputes and litigation, including commercial contract and warranty actions, real estate, zoning, and landlord and tenant disputes, shareholder disputes, and municipal law litigation.  Jonathan is also certified by the Michigan State Court Administrative Office as a Civil Facilitative Mediator and has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution proceedings.

Probate, Trust, and Estate Counseling and Litigation

Jonathan has significant experience counseling and representing fiduciaries and interested parties in a wide range of probate, trust, and estate matters, including high-net-worth trust and estate proceedings.  Employing skilled, yet practical, approaches to complex legal problems, Jonathan effectively resolves breach of fiduciary duty, capacity, and undue influence challenges brought both on behalf of and against trustees and other fiduciaries. 

Criminal Defense Representation 

Jonathan has successfully defended hundreds of misdemeanor and felony matters, both in state and federal courts, involving a broad spectrum of criminal defense matters.

• Co-Author, “For Me? You Shouldn’t Have! Legal Considerations for Gifting,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, August 2017
• Co-Author, “She Did What with the Family Farm? Top Ways to Challenge a Deed in Michigan,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, June 2017
• Co-Author, “A Guide To: Challenging a Financial Durable Power of Attorney in Michigan,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, April 2017
• Co-Author, “A Guide for Challenging a Joint Account Arrangement,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, March 2017
• Co-Author, “A Guide To: How to Challenge a Trust in Michigan,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, February 2017
• Co-Author, “A Guide To: How to Challenge a Will in Michigan,” with Thomas Fabbri, Mallory Kallabat, and Nicholas Papasifakis, JD Supra, January 2017
• Co-Author, “Get Your Claims In: An Overview of Pre-death Claims by a Fiduciary,” with Thomas Fabbri and Nicholas Papasifakis, Michigan Probate & Estate Planning Journal, Winter 2017
• Author, “Probable Cause Exception to the Enforcement of Will and Trust in Terrorem Clauses: Determining the Factors in Applying the Exception and Considering Opportunities for an Early Determination of Whether the Exception Has Been Satisfied,” January 2013