About Hunt Willis

Hunt Willis grew up in the mountains of North Carolina. After earning his undergraduate degree from Appalachian State University, he was commissioned as an officer in the United States Army, serving as a captain, intelligence officer, and veteran of the Iraq War. After leaving the Army, Hunt graduated cum laude from Campbell University School of Law, where he was Managing Editor of the Campbell Law Review and a member of the national moot court team. He served as an extern to the Honorable Rick Elmore of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, was inducted into the Order of Barristers upon graduation, and later received the Safran Moot Court Award for outstanding contribution to the school's appellate advocacy program.

Hunt's practice focuses on representing people harmed by others' negligence, including tractor-trailer and commercial vehicle collisions, car wrecks, defective and dangerous products, industrial explosions, fires, and other incidents involving serious injury or death. He regularly tries cases to verdict before juries across North Carolina in state and federal court. In 2014 alone, his trial team won jury verdicts of $3.35 million, $2.25 million, and $250,325.

He also has considerable experience representing seriously injured children. Effective January 1, 2023, Hunt became a shareholder of Martin & Jones. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star since 2016 and a Best Lawyer in America since 2020, and was named among the Legal Elite in North Carolina by Business NC magazine.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Martin & Jones

These results are credited to Martin & Jones. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

Hoyt Tessener of Martin and Jones, joined by co-counsel Kent Emison, secured a $31 million settlement for a boy left paraplegic when a two-point rear lap belt in a 1999 Ford Escort jackknifed him during a crash, while other occupants of the same car came away with comparatively minor injuries.

Nash County Superior Court, North Carolina · 2015Product LiabilityRead the full story →
$7.52 millionSettlement

E. Spencer Parris and G. Christopher Olson of Martin and Jones secured a $7.52 million settlement for Dwayne Allen Dail, who spent 18 years in a North Carolina prison before DNA evidence identified the actual perpetrator and cleared his name.

U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina · 2013Civil RightsRead the full story →

Forest Horne secured a $7.5 million jury verdict for a retired CSX railroad worker whose decades of on-the-job asbestos exposure caused malignant mesothelioma, a verdict the North Carolina Court of Appeals unanimously upheld in 2006.

North Carolina (trial court); NC Court of Appeals 2006 · 2005Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Campbell University School of Law
J.D.
Appalachian State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of North Carolina

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Maginnis Howard Personal Injury Lawyer
$8.62 Million Settlement After Former UNC Student Drove Wrong-Way on I-85, Killing Three
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Hardison & Cochran
Hardison & Cochran
$3.5 million · Paralyzed Tree Cutter Wins $3.5 Million From Insurers After Employee Status Ruling
Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law
Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law
$40 million · Henson Fuerst Wins Record $40 Million Drunk Driving Verdict
Brent Adams & Associates
Brent Adams & Associates
$3.41 million · Johnston County Jury Awards $3.41 Million to Family of 23-Year-Old Killed by Sucker Punch at Selma Bar

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.