Merrill & Merrill, Chtd.

About Merrill & Merrill, Chtd.

A personal injury and workers? compensation attorney, Kent A. Higgins is a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, the Multimillion Dollar Advocates Forum. He has received a preeminent peer review rating from his peers. Now twenty years with the law firm of Merrill & Merrill, Kent has served as Commissioner of the Idaho State Bar for three years and President for one. Representing clients in Eastern Idaho, he is admitted to practice in state courts in Utah and Idaho. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Federal Claims, several U.S. Courts of Appeals and the Ute Indian Tribal Court of the Uintah & Ouray Reservation.

Mr. Higgins has over 40 years of experience protecting the rights of the average worker and the injured. In 1979, he graduated from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Arts in political science, then earned his Juris Doctor from Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School. A talented author, Mr. Higgins has published nine articles in the Advocate and regularly lectures on legal topics. He has designed a probate plan for under-served clientele.

ÿBesides his Presidency and Commissioner role in the Idaho State Bar, Kent is also past president of the Idaho Sixth District Bar Association, and he is a former legislator for the Idaho State House of Representatives. ÿHe has handled some of Idaho?s largest settlements approved by the Idaho Industrial Commission.ÿ

Mr. Higgins represents the Cities of Inkom,ÿ Bancroft, andÿ of Rockland. He speaks Japanese. His community service and pro bono activity include Director of the Pocatello Chapter of Rotary International and membership in the Pocatello Chubbuck Chamber of Commerce.ÿ