The firm adopted its current name on April 2, 2018, when it merged with Andrews Kurth Kenyon LLP.

In 1943, during the Second World War, two women lawyers were hired to work at Hunton & Williams: Sarah Geer Dale and Nan Ross McConnell.

[6] The firm has a Centre for Information Policy Leadership, which focuses on privacy and data protection work.

Wehrum, who as a Hunton attorney represented oil and gas corporations, left his partner role when he was appointed to a top position in the Trump Administration Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Wehrum's private meetings with oil and gas industry ex-clients, many from his time working at Hunton, have attracted criticism "despite federal ethics rules intended to limit such interactions.