Marshal's road to the courtroom started in south Mississippi, where he was born and raised. Marshal is a "first-generation professional" — and, in fact, is the first member of his family to receive a bachelor's degree.

Marshal graduated at the top of his class from Berkeley Law and practiced at an elite trial-litigation boutique before founding The Hoda Law Firm in 2021.

Marshal’s mission is to put his unique set of legal and technological skills to use to fight for those who have been wronged on the internet.

That’s why The Hoda Law Firm dedicates 100 percent of its practice to representing victims of cybercrime, fraud, and deceptive practices in litigation against wrongdoers and their enablers.

• Law School: Berkeley Law (top IP-law program in the United States)

• Undergraduate: Tulane University (degree in Philosophy & Economics)

• Founded The Hoda Law Firm in 2021.

• Practiced at elite litigation boutique in Houston, Texas.

• Clerked for Judge Amul R. Thapar, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

• Two years as a Ranger for the National Park Service (before law school).

• Boalt Scholar (finished 3L year with top-3 class rank at Berkeley Law)

• Order of the Coif (national law-school honor society for those with top-10% class rank)

• American Jurisprudence & Prosser Awards

  • Constitutional Law

  • Civil Procedure

  • Torts

  • Property

  • Advanced Legal Research

  • Advanced Legal Writing

  • Legal Ethics

  • Real Estate Transactions & Litigation

• Chevron Pro Bono Partner Award (in recognition of pro bono services to victims of domestic abuse)

• Undergraduate degree Magna Cum Laude with Departmental Honors

• Licensed to practice law in Texas since 2018

• Certified eDiscovery Specialist (ACEDS)

• Certified Specialist Blockchain Investigator

• Skilled no-code/low-code software developer

• Skilled technical mountaineer

• The Aérospatiale Dilemma: Why U.S. Courts Ignore Blocking Statutes and What Foreign States Can Do About It, 106 Cal. L. Rev. 231 (2018)

• Panelist, American Bar Association Tax Section Annual Meeting, Attacks on Tax Privacy, February 11, 2023.

• Panelist, Fishman Haygood Coalition of Civil Advocates, The Crazy World of Crypto Litigation, November 16, 2023.

• Television

• Inside Edition (2022). FTX Founder Allegedly Used Investor Funds for His Lifestyle. YouTube. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhaxTK7XXJE&t=22s&ab_channel=InsideEdition [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023] (Marshal appears at 1:49).

• Print/Online

• Church, S. and Pollard, A. (2023). FTX Judge Backs Firm’s Lawyers, Rejects Last-Minute ‘Rumors’ (1). [online] @BLaw. Available at: https://news.bloomberglaw.com/crypto/ftx-judge-backs-company-law-firm-rejecting-last-minute-rumors [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Bhuyan, P. (2023). FTX Finally Gets Court Approval For This Despite Much Controversy. [online] CoinGape. Available at: https://coingape.com/ftx-finally-gets-court-approval-for-this-despite-much-controversy/ [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Westenhaver, D. (2023). Bankman-Fried Says Law Firm Sacrifices FTX Customers After Engineering Bankruptcy. Forbes. [online] 16 Jan. Available at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidwestenhaver/2023/01/12/bankman-fried-says-law-firm-sacrifices-ftx-customers-after-engineering-bankruptcy/?sh=1d5f51aa617c [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Keenan, A. (2023). Judge approves FTX to hire Sullivan & Cromwell over customer objection. [online] Yahoo Finance. Available at: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/judge-approves-ftx-to-hire-sullivan--cromwell-over-customer-objection-201608132.html [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Kim, C. (2023). The objection seeking to turn FTX’s ‘world upside down’. [online] Axios. Available at: https://www.axios.com/2023/01/18/ftx-bankruptcy-sullivan-cromwell-conflict-of-interest [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Jewett, A. (2023). Google class action claims company wiretaps communications on major tax-filing websites. [online] Top Class Actions. Available at: https://topclassactions.com/lawsuit-settlements/lawsuit-news/google-class-action-lawsuit-and-settlement-news/google-class-action-claims-company-wiretaps-communications-on-major-tax-filing-websites/ [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• Themarkup.org. (2022). Meta Sued for Collecting Financial Information Through Tax Filing Websites – The Markup. [online] Available at: https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/12/02/meta-sued-for-collecting-financial-information-through-tax-filing-websites [Accessed 27 Dec. 2023].

• https://www.law360.com/tax-authority/articles/1555211/facebook-users-say-meta-collected-tax-info-during-e-filing

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Marshal is an outdoors nut.

He has climbed big mountains and completed challenging routes all over the world, including:

• The Wind River High Route

• The Grand Teton (six summits by four different routes)

• Mount Moran

• Middle Teton

• Symmetry Spire

• Cloud Peak

• Mount Rainier

• Mount Hood

• Pico de Orizaba

• Cotopaxi

• Yannpaccha

• Huarapasca

• Illimani

• Vallunaraju