His first attempt at a novel, The Simeon Chamber, was represented by an agent and sold to the New York publisher D.I. In the mid-1980s Martini began his fiction-writing career. He is currently inactive with the State Bar of California, choosing writing instead as a full-time occupation. He has worked as an administrative hearing officer, a supervising hearing officer, an administrative law judge, and for a time served as Deputy Director of the State Office of Administrative Hearings. During his law career, in addition to other activities, he worked as a legislative representative for the California Department of Consumer Affairs, the State Bar of California, and served as special counsel to the California Victims of Violent Crimes Program. Martini has practiced law both privately as well as for public agencies appearing in state and federal courts. He was admitted to the Bar in January 1975. During this period he attended night law school and in 1974 took his law degree from the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law. There he specialized in legal and political coverage. In 1970 he became the newspaper’s first correspondent at the State Capitol in Sacramento and later its bureau chief. He worked as a newspaper reporter for the Los Angeles Daily Journal, the largest legal newspaper in the country covering the state, the local courts and the civic center beat. Martini's first career was in journalism.
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