Nathan Hittle

Nathan Hittle is a trial lawyer at Gray Broughton Injury Law in Henrico, Virginia, where he represents people injured by the negligence of others in personal injury cases throughout the Richmond region. A former career prosecutor, Hittle is a Virginia trial lawyer who pairs more than a decade of courtroom experience with a demonstrative, evidence-driven approach to advocacy.

Hittle did not come from a family of lawyers. He grew up around music — both of his parents were collegiate jazz professors — and he became an accomplished jazz pianist who still performs professionally throughout Central Virginia. An early interest in civics, politics, and government drew him toward law rather than a musical career. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Friends University in Wichita, Kansas, where he was inducted into the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society and was a district finalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. He went on to earn his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Chapter President of the American Constitution Society and as an editorial board member of the Journal of Law and Politics, interned with the Office of the Attorney General of Virginia and several Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Offices, and studied abroad at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

After law school, Hittle spent more than a decade as a prosecutor in the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office for the City of Richmond. He tried cases ranging from traffic infractions to homicides, appearing in court several days a week and handling matters involving violent crime, property crime, fraud, and complex traffic crashes. That volume of trial work — jury trials, bench trials, and hearings — made the courtroom the natural center of his practice and earned him a reputation for fairness, integrity, and determination.

It was as a prosecutor that Hittle developed the digital courtroom presentation style that now defines his advocacy. In a 2020 prosecution, he charged a defendant who stole cars by fraudulently obtaining their titles through the Department of Motor Vehicles; the scheme drew roughly twenty witnesses over a three-day trial and produced convictions on more than a dozen felonies, including money laundering. Faced with so many charges, victims, and documents, Hittle relied on screens and exhibits to help jurors follow the evidence as it came in — an approach he found built credibility because jurors could verify what he showed them rather than simply take his word. He favors video broken into short, digestible clips and tools that focus a jury’s attention on a specific document or moment, while staying judicious so the presentation never distracts from the point he is making.

Hittle joined Gray Broughton Injury Law, a veteran-led Virginia personal injury firm whose attorneys are largely former prosecutors and military officers, bringing a prosecutor’s habit of building a case rather than playing defense. Six months into his career as a plaintiff’s attorney, he served on the trial team in Clark v. Grafton and Michelle Yates, a case involving a thirteen-year-old boy assaulted by his caretaker at a psychiatric care facility. Over a four-day trial in Winchester, Virginia, in February 2026, Hittle was entrusted with the closing argument. He asked the jury for $38.4 million, and after roughly three hours of deliberation it returned a verdict of $20 million — the result of his first jury trial as a plaintiff’s attorney.

Hittle has continued to sharpen his skills through advanced trial advocacy training at the National Trial Advocacy College, the National District Attorneys Association, and the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Services Council Trial Advocacy School. In 2025 he was sworn in as a substitute judge in the Richmond General District Court and the Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court. His years of performing as a musician inform his courtroom presence — a comfort with improvising, thinking on his feet, and holding an audience that carries directly into trial work. Above all, he credits preparation and the trust of his team over natural talent, describing his advocacy as the product of skills built deliberately over time.