Career
H. Fennell's documented professional role is as a partner of Cooper, Spong & Davis, P.C., a law firm with its main office in Portsmouth, Virginia. The firm was founded in the early 1950s by William B. Spong Jr., a former United States senator, and Richard J. Davis, a former lieutenant governor of Virginia who also served as mayor of Portsmouth. In 1963 their practice merged with that of Clyde W. Cooper, and the combined firm took the name Cooper, Spong & Davis.
The firm has since grown into one of Portsmouth's oldest law firms, with additional offices in Suffolk and Virginia Beach. Its practice has emphasized estate planning, estate administration, elder law, real estate transactions, corporate matters, and creditors' rights, areas that reflect the commercial and estate-planning focus of Hampton Roads legal practice. Fennell's practice areas are documented as estate planning, real estate, and commercial law.
