R. Ethan Hargraves joined Gary Massey Injury Lawyers in 2017 as his first full-time employment after law school. Previously, he served as a law clerk for two years, working for justices on the Alabama and Tennessee Supreme Courts. This experience honed Ethan’s understanding of how cases are handled and the importance of doing things right from the very beginning.
Ethan attended Bryan College in Dayton, Tennessee, for his undergraduate degree and then earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from Liberty University School of Law in Lynchburg, Virginia, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Liberty University Law Review. His essay on how the United States Supreme Court should rule in a certain case won a national award delivered at a reception at the United States Supreme Court.
As part of the Gary Massey Injury Lawyers team, Ethan has focused his career on helping regular people who have been injured or wrongfully discriminated against by their employers. Ethan knows that being mistreated and tossed aside can be incredibly painful, and so he works hard to represent all his clients with honesty and compassion.
Ethan is married to his high-school sweetheart, Alanna. Ethan and his family are followers of Jesus Christ. They are members of Grace Reformed Baptist Church in Red Bank.
Ethan was born and raised in the Chattanooga area. He spent his childhood on his family’s farm in Harrison. Even today, when he is not in court, he enjoys raising poultry, growing crops, and hunting deer and turkey to put food on the table.
He likes to pick around on the banjo every chance he gets. Ethan also loves growing and eating the hottest commercially-available pepper on the planet—the Carolina Reaper. He took first place in the Extreme Hot Pepper Eating Contest at the 2022 Bristol Pepper Fest in Bristol, Tennessee.
“I try to treat every other person as more important than myself and to recognize every person’s value and dignity. I also take excellence in my craft extremely seriously. My clients pay me for serious representation, and I am committed to giving them their money’s worth.”
– Ethan Hargraves
I am a Chattanooga native and a God-fearing family man. I have been practicing law since 2014 and am licensed in both Tennessee and Georgia. I became a lawyer because I enjoy the challenge of competition and I derive a great sense of personal fulfillment from helping people.
As part of my practice, I help individuals, not corporations. My cases include car wrecks, premises cases, employment discrimination, dog bites, and more, but they all involve someone who has been harmed and is in need of help.
When bad actors don’t take responsibility for the harm they’ve caused, I work to hold them accountable. My trial experience is what makes the biggest difference in my practice because it means that I can make the credible threat that I am not afraid to take cases to trial, and that I have a better ability to negotiate settlements because I have an informed sense of how real juries are likely to value cases.
