The house at 326 Wickham Glen Drive in eastern Goochland. (Photos courtesy of CVRMLS)
One of the co-founders and namesakes of now-defunct Richmond legal giant LeClairRyan is unloading his residence in eastern Goochland.
Gary LeClair
Gary LeClair, who led the longtime law firm for decades before its 2019 collapse, listed his home in Goochland’s Wickham Glen neighborhood this month with an asking price of just under $2 million.
The 5,600-square-foot house, at 326 Wickham Glen Drive, was listed March 5 and went under contract Monday. Nancy Cheely with Joyner Fine Properties has the listing.
LeClair, who is now a partner at Williams Mullen, did not respond to calls to his office and mobile phone this week. A call to Cheely was not returned.
LeClair and his wife April bought the house in December 2017 for $1.5 million, county property records show. The 1.5-acre property, which overlooks Tuckahoe Creek, is currently assessed by the county at $1.6 million.
Built in 2006, the two-story brick house has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half-baths. The first-floor primary bedroom suite includes a marble bathroom and an office with a fireplace.
The house features tall windows with 10-foot ceilings.
The family room has a coffered ceiling and cast stone fireplace and includes a bar. Cheely’s listing says the LeClairs added an exercise room and a bluestone-floored sunroom, described in the listing as a “l’orangerie” – a French term for a room or building used for growing orange trees or other fruit trees in colder months.
A descendant of French Huguenots, LeClair’s interest in all things French led him and April to buy a small olive farm in Provence along the French Riviera. They purchased the 250-tree farm in 2013 and were featured in a BizSense Downtime article in 2019.
The foyer of the 5,600-square-foot house.
More recently, LeClair had been at the center of his former law firm’s bankruptcy liquidation, pushing back at allegations from the bankruptcy trustee that he conspired to benefit from and is to blame for LeClairRyan’s collapse. He and two dozen of the firm’s former insiders ultimately settled with the bankruptcy estate for $10 million.
The firm’s liquidation process continues, with disputes against other parties still in the works.
The house at 326 Wickham Glen Drive in eastern Goochland. (Photos courtesy of CVRMLS)
One of the co-founders and namesakes of now-defunct Richmond legal giant LeClairRyan is unloading his residence in eastern Goochland.
Gary LeClair
Gary LeClair, who led the longtime law firm for decades before its 2019 collapse, listed his home in Goochland’s Wickham Glen neighborhood this month with an asking price of just under $2 million.
The 5,600-square-foot house, at 326 Wickham Glen Drive, was listed March 5 and went under contract Monday. Nancy Cheely with Joyner Fine Properties has the listing.
LeClair, who is now a partner at Williams Mullen, did not respond to calls to his office and mobile phone this week. A call to Cheely was not returned.
LeClair and his wife April bought the house in December 2017 for $1.5 million, county property records show. The 1.5-acre property, which overlooks Tuckahoe Creek, is currently assessed by the county at $1.6 million.
Built in 2006, the two-story brick house has four bedrooms, four full bathrooms and two half-baths. The first-floor primary bedroom suite includes a marble bathroom and an office with a fireplace.
The house features tall windows with 10-foot ceilings.
The family room has a coffered ceiling and cast stone fireplace and includes a bar. Cheely’s listing says the LeClairs added an exercise room and a bluestone-floored sunroom, described in the listing as a “l’orangerie” – a French term for a room or building used for growing orange trees or other fruit trees in colder months.
A descendant of French Huguenots, LeClair’s interest in all things French led him and April to buy a small olive farm in Provence along the French Riviera. They purchased the 250-tree farm in 2013 and were featured in a BizSense Downtime article in 2019.
The foyer of the 5,600-square-foot house.
More recently, LeClair had been at the center of his former law firm’s bankruptcy liquidation, pushing back at allegations from the bankruptcy trustee that he conspired to benefit from and is to blame for LeClairRyan’s collapse. He and two dozen of the firm’s former insiders ultimately settled with the bankruptcy estate for $10 million.
The firm’s liquidation process continues, with disputes against other parties still in the works.
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