Martin P. Honigberg is the Leader of Sulloway's Government Relations Group. He represents clients in the areas of government relations, administrative law, commercial litigation, and appellate advocacy. He joined the firm after serving as Special Counsel to New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen in the last of her six years in office, where he concentrated on issues of state security and policy matters for the Governor. Mr. Honigberg was a Senior Assistant Attorney General for the State of New Hampshire and has more than a decade of experience in private practice. He has worked closely on policy issues with leaders and members of both parties in the state legislature and with the highest-level officials in the executive branch of state government. Mr. Honigberg has appeared many times before the New Hampshire Supreme Court to argue cases involving such diverse subjects as education funding, property and business taxation, election law, public utility law, and civil rights.
Mr. Honigberg serves the profession as a member of the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on Rules and of the Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education Committee. Mr. Honigberg participates in the Bar Association’s Law Related Education programs by judging the annual “We the People” (constitutional law) and “Project Citizen” competitions. From July 2001 through June 2005, Mr. Honigberg represented the lawyers of Merrimack County on the Bar Association’s Board of Governors.
He is active in the community as a coach of youth soccer, basketball, and softball teams in Concord; and as a participant in the Parent Teacher Organizations of his children’s schools. In 2004, he was a member of the Concord School District’s school facilities and advisory committee. In November of 2005, Mr. Honigberg was elected to a three-year term on the Concord Board of Education.
Mr. Honigberg graduated from Amherst College in 1981 and from the
Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1985, where he was the Executive
Authorities Editor for the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational
Law.
He
is admitted to practice law in New Hampshire, Massachusetts,
and the District of Columbia.