About Fletcher Harkrader

Fletcher W. Harkrader, III is a Principal and personal injury attorney at Marks & Harrison, focusing exclusively on personal injury work. He has practiced law since 1983.

Harkrader served as Louisa County Attorney from 1990 to 1998 and represented the Virginia Transportation Commissioner as trial counsel by appointment of the Governor of Virginia from 1994 until joining Marks & Harrison in January 2002. He has achieved notable results for personal injury clients, including $1.2 million in a wrongful death case, $1,220,000 in a motorcycle crash case, $1 million in an auto accident case, and an $850,000 jury verdict. He has been selected to Super Lawyers from 2012 through 2019.

Harkrader earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Richmond School of Law and his undergraduate degree cum laude from Washington and Lee University.

Proven verdicts and settlements at Marks & Harrison

These results are credited to Marks & Harrison. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

$10 millionSettlementTop 20 in Virginia · #13

A tractor-trailer drifted into a retired 20-year veteran's lane on Interstate 95 North and killed him, and Marks & Harrison recovered $10 million for his family before any lawsuit was filed.

Interstate 95, Virginia · 2024Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
$10 millionVerdictTop 20 in Virginia · #14

A City of Richmond worker suffered permanent brain damage when a runaway Norfolk Southern boxcar with a missing brake rod drove a floodwall gate into him, and a Richmond jury returned a $10 million verdict.

Richmond Circuit Court, Virginia · 1996Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$9 millionSettlementTop 20 in Virginia · #15

A heavy retail display toppled onto a 7-year-old, fracturing the child's skull and forcing emergency brain surgery, and Marks & Harrison resolved the premises liability case for $9 million.

Virginia (private mediation) · 2023Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$6.5 millionSettlement

In February 2015 a Chesterfield County, Virginia police officer fired a Taser at Miles November, a 27-year-old man trapped in a wrecked car soaked in gasoline after a police chase. His clothing ignited and he suffered burns over most of his body, followed by months in the hospital and more than 30 surgeries. He sued the county and the officer in federal court in Richmond. The case settled in 2018 for $6.5 million, paid by the county's commercial insurer and its self-insurance fund.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond · 2018Civil RightsRead the full story →
$5.24 millionSettlement

A police chase on wet Virginia roads ended in a head-on collision that killed a six-months-pregnant passenger's unborn son and left her with catastrophic injuries, and the case settled for $5.24 million.

Virginia · 2023Car AccidentsRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Washington and Lee University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Virginia, admitted 1983

Awards & recognition

Super Lawyers (2012-2019)

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.