
Matthew T. Martens
Matt Martens is a trial lawyer, a former federal prosecutor, a seminary graduate, a legal ethics professor, and an award-winning author. Matt’s writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other outlets, and he has spoken at numerous universities across the country.
I have been a lawyer for 29 years after graduating first in my class at the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1996. At the outset of my legal career, I spent two years in Washington, DC serving as a law clerk for a federal court of appeals judge and then to Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist at the US Supreme Court.
In the years that followed, I've worked both as a federal prosecutor (9 years) and as a criminal defense attorney (14 years). I've handled virtually every type of criminal case you can think of, including capital murder, securities fraud, drug trafficking, firearms violations, child pornography, mortgage fraud, voter fraud, and public corruption. Over the years, I have tried more than two dozen cases across the country both as a prosecutor and defense attorney. I am currently a partner in the Washington, DC office of one of the world's largest law firms. I have also taught Legal Ethics at Duke Law School.
During my years in private law practice, I have contributed a significant amount of my time to pro bono work, largely focused on religious liberty cases and criminal cases. I recently argued a criminal case in the Alabama Supreme Court. In 2020, I represented numerous churches around the country in litigation challenging COVID church closure orders.
Along the way, I attended seminary part-time at Dallas Theological Seminary, graduating first in my class with a master's degree in biblical studies in 2010.
I live in northern Virginia with my wife of 30 years and our youngest son. My two older children graduated from Furman University. We are members of Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC.
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Columbus, OH
Speech
Columbus, OH
West Chester, PA
Sunday Night Theology - speech
West Chester, PA
Cambridge, MA
Speech
Cambridge, MA
Fresno, CA
Speech
Fresno, CA
Cedarville, OH
Chapel speaker
Cedarville, OH
Indianapolis, IN
Lectures
Indianapolis, IN
Greenville, SC
Conservatism in America with Matthew Continetti (American Enterprise Institute), David Brooks (New York Times), and Helen Andrews (The Ameri...
Greenville, SC
Greenville, SC
Speech: “Does Christianity Care About Social Justice?”
Greenville, SC
Athens, GA
Speech
Athens, GA
Ann Arbor, MI
Speech
Ann Arbor, MI
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