Cranfill Sumner LLP recognized Marshall Wall with its 2025 Core Value Award, the firm’s most prestigious honor. The firm presents the award annually to one or more individuals in the firm who best exemplify the firm’s core values of client service, reputation, and teamwork.
Marshall serves as the firm’s Managing Partner overseeing all four offices in Raleigh, Charlotte, Wilmington, and Washington, DC and is Chair of the firm’s Cyber Liability and Privacy Law Practice Group.
“We see the firm’s core values of teamwork, reputation, and client service modeled each and every day by Marshall Wall. He infuses those values into every interaction with clients and colleagues and has really defined what it means to do things the ‘Cranfill way.’ We are grateful for his leadership and proud to recognize him as our 2025 Core Value Award winner,” said Lee Poole, a Partner & Management Committee Member at Cranfill Sumner.
Cranfill Sumner’s Core Values
Marshall was instrumental in the development and implementation of the firm’s Core Values of client service, teamwork, and reputation. The firm’s attorneys and staff are committed to these values which is reflected in every relationship with clients, philanthropic work, leadership roles in the industry, and diversity initiatives.
In 2018, Marshall was a driving force in the creation of the firm’s Core Value Award which recognizes employees who best exemplify those values in their work. Nominations for the award are submitted by employees across the firm and final selections are made by the Management Committee. He received overwhelming support from employees in the nomination process, which allowed the Management Committee to make the final decision without his involvement — preserving the element of surprise when presenting him with the award.
About Marshall Wall
Marshall joined Cranfill Sumner as a clerk in 1998 and has served as the firm’s Managing Partner since January 2016.
Under his leadership, the firm has expanded to include six new practice areas and opened a boutique firm in Washington, DC. He helped the firm weather significant events such as hurricanes and COVID-19, as well as overseeing the firm through changes in technology and remote work.
He is passionate about helping his community and has served on the Board of Directors for the Needham B. Broughton Capital Foundation, the Board of Directors for Transitions LifeCare, the North Carolina Museum of Art Contemporaries and the Board of Trustees for the Hospice of Wake County Foundation and its Endowment. He is also an active member of White Memorial Presbyterian Church where he has served as an Elder and Deacon.
He graduated cum laude from Campbell Law School where he continues to serve on the Board of Visitors and received his bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Professional Recognition
Marshall is regularly listed among respected lawyers by North Carolina Super Lawyers, Business North Carolina Legal Elite, and the Best Lawyers in America and he maintains an AV Rating through Martindale-Hubbell.
Marshall holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US) designation and was appointed as a founding member of the Privacy and Information Security Law Specialty Committee of the State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. This committee played a pivotal role in developing North Carolina’s specialty certification in Privacy and Information Security Law, aligning it with the national CIPP/US training program and examination standards established by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). In addition, Marshall is board certified by the North Carolina State Bar as a specialist in Privacy and Information Security and was among the inaugural class of attorneys in the state to receive this certification.
He is a member of the prestigious Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel (FDCC), an organization of leaders in the legal community, where he has held the role of Vice Chair of the Data Breach, Privacy, and Cyber Insurance Law Section.
