Martin is the co-founder of Harrington LLP and is a lawyer, called to the Bar of Ontario in 1985. After graduating from the University of Toronto Law School he articled at Campbell Godfrey & Lewtas (now Fasken Martineau). 

Martin postponed his Bay Street ambitions to work for several years as Director of Research and Technology at the Canadian Law information Council ("CLIC") in Ottawa. CLIC was a publicly funded organization devoted to coordinating public legal information and education. Martin spent those years speaking to groups of lawyers and judges, writing online research guides and generally promoting the use of technology to improve access to justice. Today Martin continues to promote public access to law as a member of the Board of Directors of CanLII, the Canadian Legal Information Institute.

While at CLIC Dr. Felsky co-founded the Legal Research Network and was invited to join the newly formed Judges Computer Advisory Committee of the Canadian Judicial Council (now JTAC, Judges Technology Advisory Committee) in 1987. He has been an advisor and member of JTAC since its first meeting and is its longest-serving member. As a JTAC member Martin has been responsible for drafting several key documents including the groundbreaking “Blueprint for the Security of Judicial Information” (now in its 3d edition), and many other important judicial technology standards and discussion papers. 

Recruited by Bay Street in 1988, Martin left Ottawa to practice law at Canada’s largest and also its first national law firm, McCarthy & McCarthy (now McCarthy Tétrault). As a research lawyer and then Legal Technology Counsel for seven years, Martin was responsible for advising the firm’s lawyers and clients on all aspects of Canadian business law and litigation. He also served on the firm’s Precedents Committee, which was responsible for drafting and updating the firm’s model corporate and commercial agreements. He transformed the firm’s paper-based research precedent system into a full-text online searchable resource which is still in use today.

Upon leaving McCarthy Tétrault in 1995, Martin launched his own successful consulting practice dedicated to helping law firms, governments and large corporations make effective use of technology in the practice of law. During this period he continued to be in demand as an expert in complex litigation and as an educator and speaker.

In the year 2000 Dr. Felsky joined forces with West Canadian Industries Group to form a new venture whose mission was to support the emerging demand for paperless litigation. Their new company, Commonwealth Legal, stands today as Canada’s leading evidence management service bureau, with some 65 employees and relationships with every major law firm in the country.

For nine years, Martin was CEO, General Counsel and Chief Privacy and Security Officer of this rapidly growing startup. He was responsible for drafting and implementing the company’s records management, privacy and security policies, and for preparing the company to become in 2009 Canada’s first ISO 9001-certified electronic discovery vendor. Though he left the CEO position in 2009, he continues to advise the West Canadian Industries Group on business and legal matters, and acts as the company’s Chief Privacy and Information Security Officer.

Today Martin continues to provide his legal and business expertise to large corporations and government organizations across Canada on matters of information governance, litigation preparedness, and electronic discovery.