Craig Martin serves as chairman, Midwest for Willkie Farr & Gallagher and is a member of the executive committee. A leading national trial lawyer, his clients include major corporations and the nation’s most influential families, and he regularly appears as lead counsel in trials and appeals in state and federal courts as well as in domestic and international arbitrations. Craig also counsels boards and board committees of public and private companies and law firms on a variety of sensitive and complicated matters and conducts board and management-driven investigations involving various subjects domestically and internationally.

Craig is also well-known for his philanthropic, community service, and pro bono contributions. Since 2015, he has served as a board member of the Crown Family Philanthropies. For nearly two decades, he was a board member of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago, including serving as secretary, vice-chairman and chairman from 2011-2014. In 2015, the board established the Craig Martin Award educational scholarship in his honor. In the same year, he and his wife established the Laura & Craig Martin Innovative Academic Programs Endowment Fund for the Latin School of Chicago. Craig also serves on the executive committee of the board of directors of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the Chicago Club, and the Economic Club of Chicago.

Craig holds a BA magna cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and a JD from Harvard University.