About Us
We Started With a Team of Two. On October 15, 2020, the Team Grew by Associating Hurst & Meyer, PLLC.
The Harwell Law Group (HLG) and Hurst & Meyer are an association of two PLLCs. Our independence and our collaboration make us unique. Everyone in this association decided to leave large firms for the independence and freedom provided by working with a closely knit group of friends. The collaboration among firms allows us to offer more services and experience to our clients. Scroll down to “Legal Services Provided” on the home page of this website, and also see the services provided (Hurst & Meyer are revising their website in light of this new association) at https://www.hurstmeyer.com/#practice-areas.
Marc Harwell has primarily worked as a trial lawyer for over thirty years. He has tried over 100 jury trials and even more bench trials. He has successfully litigated cases of wrongful death, traumatic brain injury, alleged bad faith denials of coverage, major commercial developments and construction, products liability involving catastrophic injury, employment related class actions, etc.
Since 2014, Marc has served as an effective mediator handling a wide variety of complex cases involving commercial motor carriers, products liability, construction projects, professional malpractice, etc.
He is a Senior Director and Executive Committee Member of the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel (FDCC) and is a recipient of the FDCC’s President’s Award for Community Service related to his #FeedThePartnership campaign (see Community). He is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Chattanooga Bar Foundation. In 2018, he served as the President of the Chattanooga Bar Association. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Law Firm Association – International (ALFA) from 2015 through 2017.
These examples of his work as an advocate, as a neutral, and as a leader are illustrative of his ability to work effectively for clients in cases where the stakes are high, with competing advocates to bring reason and resolution to their disputes, and with an executive committee to accomplish excellent results for the overall good of the group. He is using these skills to ensure that HLG and Hurst & Meyer perform at the highest level for the benefit of HLG’s and Hurst & Meyer’s clients.
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Marc Harwell |
Jennifer Roden |
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James A. Hurst Of Counsel |
Philip M. Meyer II Of Counsel |
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Hanna L. Burnett Of Counsel |
Ashley Agard Paralegal |
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The Harwell Law Group Dynamic
At the Harwell Law Group, performance alone measures each attorney’s financial returns – not seniority. So each attorney may decide how much time she or he chooses to devote to the practice of law with the only rule being that we must timely and effectively serve our clients. So we must work as a true team of professionals – a group of the highest caliber – to meet and exceed client needs and yet also fulfill our family, community, and personal needs and desires.
Attorneys may work from wherever they choose to do so. Within reason, each attorney may work the hours that she/he chooses to work. Going into each year, each attorney states the number of hours that will be worked for the year so that plans may reasonably be made for staffing to ensure that the firm meets or exceeds client needs. So the attorney decides in large part how much time will be reserved for family, community, and personal needs.
For community support by the firm alone, Marc will donate to charity at least one percent of all fee payments to the Harwell Law Group. Please see our Community page for information about our donation and plans for more assistance to the Partnership for Families, Children, and Adults and our local restaurateurs.
For more information, check out Marc at the following hyperlink: LinkedIn. Feel free to reach out to us at marc@harwelllawgroup.com or jennifer@harwelllawgroup.com.