Wally Martinez
Managing Partner of Hunton & Williams LLP.
Wally Martinez is Managing Partner of Hunton & Williams LLP. Mr. Martinez was a founding partner of the firm's Miami office, where his practice focused on complex business litigation and white-collar criminal defense. He left the firm for three years to serve as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Diageo North America. He returned to Hunton & Williams to become Managing Partner in 2006 at age 39, one of the youngest named to lead a global law firm of more than 1,000 attorneys. In June 2008, the National Law Journal named Mr. Martinez one of the nation's "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers." He serves as vice-chair of the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity and is a member of the NALP Foundation Board of Trustees. Mr. Martinez is a graduate of Seton Hall University and University of Pennsylvania Law School.