Mr. Martinez is a litigator with a practice that spans Holland & Hart's Government Investigations & White Collar Defense, Commercial Litigation, and Privacy & Data Security practice groups. As a part of his practice, Mr. Martinez's focuses on three areas: organizational privacy and data security, election and campaign finance law, and commercial litigation.

In the data security side of his practice, Mr. Martinez has experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of privacy and information security issues; including Internet anonymity, identity theft, "pretexting," website spoofing, privacy policies, and the associated state and federal laws that regulate this specialty area. Mr. Martinez commonly responds to businesses that are victims of network "hacking" and other "cybercrimes," or suffer lost or stolen laptops holding sensitive information. Prior to his tenure at Holland & Hart, Mr. Martinez learned to speak the language of data security by designing and building web-based data systems for emerging businesses in the information technology field.

Another aspect of Mr. Martinez's practice takes place at the intersection of law and politics. His current clients include elected officials, political action committees, and businesses impacted by special elections. Mr. Martinez regularly represents clients on election law and campaign finance matters before federal, state and administrative courts in Colorado, as well as election commissions, title boards and local clerks and recorders.

Mr. Martinez's election law experience is grounded in his professional political experience. Some examples of Mr. Martinez's prior engagements include: creating and managing the Hispanic Vote Project; serving as the interim executive director of the Colorado Democratic Party; and crafting the boundaries for Colorado's congressional and legislative districts.

In the commercial litigation side of his practice, Mr. Martinez has represented both plaintiffs and defendants in cases involving asset purchases, sales contracts, computer software licensing agreements, partnership agreements, and in various other commercial and business tort contexts.

Outside of the law firm, Mr. Martinez continues to remain active in the community as a member of the Board of Directors for the Bell Policy Center and as a motivational speaker at local schools. Most recently, Mr. Martinez took a short leave from the law firm to serve on the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team where he worked with both the technical and legal teams regarding transparency and ethics in the federal government.

Mr. Martinez is admitted to practice in Colorado.

Vice-Chair, Colorado Hispanic Bar Association, Public Policy Committee

Board Member, Colorado Lawyers Committee

Member, 1st Judicial District Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Colorado Bar Association

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Gubernatorial Appointee, Colorado Election Reform Commission

Board Member, The Bell Policy Center

Gubernatorial Appointee, Colorado Collection Agency Board

Board Member, BlueFlower Fund

Staff, Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Team

Sherpa, Ritter-O'Brien Gubernatorial Transition Team

Alumni Chapter Member, Pi Kappa Phi

AWARDS

Unsung Hero Award - 5280 Magazine

Rising Star Award - Colorado Democratic Party

Howard H. Baker Leadership Award

One of twelve inaugural "Top Up and Coming Attorneys" - Law Week Colorado, Fast Trackers edition, 2007

PUBLICATIONS

Vote Early and Vote Often, CoBiz Magazine Online, January 2009, Co-Authored by Lee Gray and D. Scott Martinez

Office Politics: The 10 Things You Need to Know About Campaign Finance, Election, and Lobbying Laws for the 2008 Election Year, @Law Magazine, Fall 2008, Vol. 57, Ed. 2.

Assessing the Mexican Vote Abroad, Trans-Border Institute at the University of San Diego, February 2, 2006