Gray Broughton

Gray Broughton is a plaintiff trial lawyer in Henrico, Virginia, and the founding trial attorney of Gray Broughton Injury Law. A former U.S. Army JAG officer and prosecutor, he represents plaintiffs in personal injury matters, with particular emphasis on catastrophic injury, traumatic brain injury and wrongful death. His firm is veteran-led and prepares every case as though a jury will decide it.

Broughton earned his law degree from Washington and Lee University School of Law, graduating in 2001, and was licensed in Virginia that year. Rather than move directly into private practice, he served more than four years as a Judge Advocate General officer in the U.S. Army.

His service took him to South Korea with the Eighth Army and to Heidelberg, Germany, with V Corps, and he deployed to Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom in late 2003 and early 2004. As a JAG officer he practiced operational law, advising commanders on rules of engagement and reviewing airstrikes, and he also served as a prosecutor. He is a recipient of the Bronze Star Medal.

After leaving active duty, Broughton returned to Virginia and spent roughly nine years at a large firm handling commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense. His move into plaintiff work began when the young son of a fellow veteran he had served with lost a leg and suffered a brain injury in a collision. Broughton took the case — his first personal injury matter — and built it through aggressive investigation.

He opened his own firm in 2018 and carried it through the early pandemic as a solo practitioner, rebuilding it with investments in marketing, technology and disciplined case preparation. Gray Broughton Injury Law has grown into a team serving clients from the Richmond area, Norfolk and Roanoke, and he practices alongside his law partner, Sharif Gray; both are former prosecutors and military veterans.

In February 2026, a Winchester Circuit Court jury returned a $20 million verdict in Clark v. Grafton for a 13-year-old boy abused while a resident of a psychiatric residential treatment facility — a case four other firms had passed over. He describes his work as valuing each client as a person rather than a number, asking what was taken from someone and how they can be fully and fairly compensated for the loss.