Partner
Phone: (804)-915-3237
Email: aharrell@hclawfirm.com
Adam Nelson Harrell, Jr. is the Co-Managing Partner of H&C, with his primary practice areas encompassing real estate, creditors’ rights, foreclosure, energy law, as well as business and banking law.
Mr. Harrell graduated with distinction from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he also served as an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law’s Black Law Journal. He has cultivated a strong working relationship with financial institution clients for over thirty years and has led the firm’s representation of business clients for more than twenty-five years.
Beyond his legal practice, Mr. Harrell is actively involved in his church and various community organizations in Richmond. His professional affiliations include membership in the Hill Tucker Bar Association and the Virginia State Bar. He has also contributed to numerous organizations, having served as a Former Member of the Board of Directors for the Greater Richmond Chapter of the American Red Cross, the Richmond Chapter of the National Council for Community and Justice, and the Richmond Christian Leadership Initiative. He is a Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of Venture Richmond, a Member of the Management Round Table, a Member of the Board of Directors of the University of Virginia Engineering Foundation, a Member of the Board of Directors of Needles Eye Ministries, and the President of the Richmond Christian Foundation. He was also a member of the 2016 Class of the Fellows of the Virginia Law Foundation.
Mr. Harrell’s professional achievements have been recognized by his inclusion in Virginia Business Magazine’s “Legal Elite” list in 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.








