John Michael Martin

All I have to say about Attorney J. Michael Martin (better known as Mike) is that is he is absolutely the most respectful, generous, and ethical lawyers in the legal business. His integrity and his ethics are unmatched, which is difficult to say about most practicing lawyers in the business today. He... currently is not residing in Arkansas where he was formerly a Deputy Prosecutor in Little Rock's Pulaski County, then declined the opportunity as an Assistant D.A in Pulaski County. After this he moved from Little Rock, Arkansas to Omaha, Nebraska to work for The Union Pacific Railroad due to the incentive of a higher salary and worked as their in house counsel, and still has a residence there in Omaha. That is what I know of him after recently speaking with him and have known him dating back to our college years. I knew he would be perfect since he also holds an accounting degree with honors (either Cum Laude or Magna Cum Laude, I don’t recall to be certain.) from Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia. This is the same university where he graduated in the same class with Governor and Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee. Well enough about Mike’s outstanding credentials, I needed his help. Mike informed me (he was not very healthy and under severe stress due to a private manner I will not disclose publicly.) but as a courtesy to me, and our friendship, he would make an effort and requested that I mail him as many documents, whether I thought they were relevant or not. I did, including phone records to him via FedEx. I sent all of the paper work to him where he informed me that he had caught a flaw in the collection process and would write up a debt collection removal letter to send to the debt collector to stop harassing me and threatening me due to a very expensive $5,900 hospital bill my son had that went into collections. Mike then told me to buy a phone recorder and record every threatening word this debt collector said to me. Then after this, he would also assist me in filing an Arkansas Protection Order properly, and submit it with the recorded phone messages, as well as the number of times on my phone record it will show this debt collector called me, which is illegal and harassment. He also wrote extremely fine and professional letters and mailed them to the hospital, the 3 major credit bureaus where he was able to have the collection removed due to a technicality after doing some serious investigating and checking that the debt had not been transferred to the collection agency properly and legally notarized, witnessed, and the dates, and signatures did not match up correctly! This took a tremendous weight off of my shoulders, and improved my credit score 93 points! As well as allowed me to not stress about gathering the money I owed the hospital. Now, not only because Mike is a close friend of mine, and was during college, he is the most decent, respectful, and helpful individual I have ever met in my entire life (of anyone at all, not just lawyers.) I offered Mike an undisclosed amount of money for his work that he stated took him about 9 hours to complete, and he would not accept my money, despite the fact he had worked his tail off utilizing his accounting and lawyer skills. He just told me to promise him if anything ever happened to him that I could help with, he would let me know, and went on to say “this is what loyalty and friendship is all about, not trying to make an extra buck from someones mishaps and misfortunes.” Mike, also known on here as J. Michael Martin but goes by his middle name Mike, will go out of his way just to help others. I hope the best for his health and hope he gets to feeling better. Mike if you ever read this, I am glad I have your cell phone number and that we were able to talk for so long on the phone and catch up on things and our current lifestyles, and I am so sorry to hear about your recent loss. God bless you. - Emily