Michael G. McCartin
Mr. McCartin has over 30 years of experience as a trial lawyer, and he has handled dozens of federal jury trials, garnering a phenomenal win rate. But his specialty is expert brief writing.
Mr. McCartin has served as a JAG in the U.S. Navy in San Diego, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California, a Trial Attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C, and an Assistant Attorney General in the New York Attorney General’s Office in Albany, New York. In his last several years with the Attorney General’s Office, before his retirement, Mr. McCartin held the title of Special Counsel for Corrections. In that position, he coordinated all matters centering on the Litigation Bureau’s largest client agency, the N.Y.S. Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
In the U.S. Navy, Mr. McCartin received the Navy Achievement Medal, and later the even more distinguished Navy Commendation Medal, for his “steadfast resolve”, his “inspirational leadership”, and his “unremitting devotion to duty.” Later, at the U.S. Department of Justice, Mr. McCartin was recognized for his “extraordinary work” in litigation and his “exemplary service” to the DOJ. Then, at the Attorney General’s Office, Mr. McCartin received three Louis J. Lefkowitz Awards, the highest-prized award in an Office of more than 700 lawyers, and he was also presented with two more commendations for “ceaseless dedication” to the people of New York. One of his Lefkowitz awards resulted from his coordination of the Attorney General’s opposition to dozens and dozens of inmate attempts to get out of prison as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mr. McCartin has tried nearly 40 jury trials in Federal district court, prevailing in all but three trial verdicts. (The three adverse trial verdicts totaled a loss of less than $50,000 combined, even including all costs and attorneys’ fees.)
Mr. McCartin is a Roman Catholic and a proud member of Sacred Heart parish in Troy, New York, and he also loves to frequent his favorite place, the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He’s enthusiastic about fishing for King Salmon and Largemouth Bass, and he enjoys reading about physics and science during his free time.
Lastly, but most importantly, Mr. McCartin is the proud father of two hard-working sons, John and Michael, with whom he loves to go fishing.
- United States Supreme Court
- New York
- California
- Northern District of New York
- Southern District of New York
- Eastern District of New York
- Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, among others
- U.S. Navy Achievement Medal
- U.S. Navy Commendation Medal
- National Defense Service Medal
- U.S. Navy Rifle Expert
- U.S. Navy Pistol Expert
- Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Achievement Award (San Diego, 1995)
- U.S. Department of Justice Award for Extraordinary Work (San Diego, 2000)
- U.S. Department of Justice Recognition Award (Washington, D.C., 2001)
- Attorney General Award for Ceaseless Dedication (2009)
- Attorney General Award for Ceaseless Dedication (2010)
- Attorney General Service Recognition Award (2013)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2021)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2022)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2023)
- Attorney General Recognition Award for 22 Years of Outstanding Service (2023)
- New York State Governor’s Office
- N.Y.S. Department of Environmental Conservation
- U.S. House of Representatives
- "Trying a Federal Civil Rights Case", U.S. District Court, NDNY Courthouse, Syracuse, New York, September 30, 2022
- "An Employment Law Update", New York State Sheriffs' Association, Saratoga Springs, New York, June 19, 2024
Member of the Bar
- United States Supreme Court
- New York
- California
- Northern District of New York
- Southern District of New York
- Eastern District of New York
- Western District of New York
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
- Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, among others
Education
Honors and Awards
- U.S. Navy Achievement Medal
- U.S. Navy Commendation Medal
- National Defense Service Medal
- U.S. Navy Rifle Expert
- U.S. Navy Pistol Expert
- Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Achievement Award (San Diego, 1995)
- U.S. Department of Justice Award for Extraordinary Work (San Diego, 2000)
- U.S. Department of Justice Recognition Award (Washington, D.C., 2001)
- Attorney General Award for Ceaseless Dedication (2009)
- Attorney General Award for Ceaseless Dedication (2010)
- Attorney General Service Recognition Award (2013)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2021)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2022)
- Louis J. Lefkowitz Award (2023)
- Attorney General Recognition Award for 22 Years of Outstanding Service (2023)
Internships
- New York State Governor’s Office
- N.Y.S. Department of Environmental Conservation
- U.S. House of Representatives
CLE Presenter
- "Trying a Federal Civil Rights Case", U.S. District Court, NDNY Courthouse, Syracuse, New York, September 30, 2022
- "An Employment Law Update", New York State Sheriffs' Association, Saratoga Springs, New York, June 19, 2024
Books Written By Michael G. McCartin
The Second book is: The Revelation Code Letter: A Positively Apocalyptic Novel. Born in Brooklyn, Fr. John Adamczyk, MIC, is an M.I.T.-trained, former astrophysicist from Caltech who is now a Marian priest at the National Shrine of The Divine Mercy. He became a priest after his sinful soul finally came back to life again in confession, that is, once he was able to come to grips with the tragic loss of his beautiful wife in a taxi-ride accident in Rome during their honeymoon. On the evening before Mercy Sunday 2017, Cardinal Nicholas Flanagan, the Archbishop of New York, visits the Shrine to celebrate the Divine Mercy Mass the next day, but he really has a two-fold purpose in mind. He wants to recruit Fr. John to use his scientific training to look into a letter that was anonymously mailed to him at St. Patrick’s Cathedral – a letter that cryptically asserts that there is a mathematical code that can be found in the last book of the Holy Bible. After months of study, Fr. John concludes that the letter is correct: there is indeed a mathematical Bible code. and this code is one that can make some sense of events that are yet to come, events prophesied about in St. John’s Apocalypse. In August 2017, Fr. John reports to the Cardinal about his surprising findings – findings about mysterious, mathematically unveiled things – and they are things that involve the Divine Mercy message itself.
Michael G. McCartin's Resume
Mr. McCartin is also the author of two books. The first book is Saint John’s Apocalypse Code: Lifting the Veil on Language to Provide A Mathematical Proof for the Existence of God and A New Theory of Creation and Evolution. In that book, Mr. McCartin notes that in the final book of the Holy Bible, the Apocalypse written in 96 A.D., St. John discusses two “scrolls.” The first is described in Chapter 5 of Bible’s last book, but because it was sealed with “seven seals”, St. John tells us that it can only be opened by the “Lion of the tribe of Judah”, that is, by Jesus Christ. There’s something very different about the second scroll, though, the one that St. John describes in Chapter 10 of that same Bible book. There St. John says that when the angel handed that “little scroll” over to him, it was “open in his hand”, mysteriously suggesting that its contents could be revealed by mere human beings, perhaps sometime in the distant future. Mr. McCartin asserts that future is now!