Maureen Martin is The Heartland Institute's senior fellow for legal affairs and managing editor of Lawsuit Abuse Fortnightly. Formerly a partner in a large Chicago law firm, she has been in the private practice of law for nearly 26 years, generally concentrating in litigation and environmental law. She has practiced throughout the country, receiving the highest possible rating of AV for legal ability and legal ethics from Martindale-Hubbell. She was an adjunct professor of environmental law at Loyola University Chicago for more than 10 years.

Her op-eds have been published in a variety of newspapers, including the Wall Street Journal, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Providence Journal, and New Jersey Star Ledger. She has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Sacramento Bee, among others. She has appeared on Milwaukee Public Television, the Milt Rosenberg show on WGN-AM Radio in Chicago, Chicago Public Radio, and on other radio programs in Wisconsin, Missouri, Utah, Oregon, Rhode Island, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Colorado, Louisiana, and Virginia.

In her private practice, she has litigated a wide variety of cases involving sophisticated constitutional law, class action defense, antitrust, commercial disputes, private property rights, lead-based paint issues, storm water and drainage issues, zoning and land use, and insurance coverage litigation. She has defended numerous manufacturers and other corporations involved in Superfund and hazardous waste litigation and has assisted them in complying with environmental laws and regulations.

Martin has also written and spoken on complex aspects of environmental law, such as the interrelationship of environmental law and bankruptcy, environmental criminal law, environmental litigation experts; real estate and corporate transactions involving contaminated property; property rights; successor corporation liability; and environmental insurance coverage.

She is a graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law, where she was a published member of the law review, recipient of an American Jurisprudence Award, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a legal writing instructor.