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Brad P. Miller

Co-Managing Partner

Phone:
208.344.6000
Fax:
208.954.5240
Email:
bmiller@hawleytroxell.com

Biography

Brad is the firm’s Co-Managing Partner and Chair of the Litigation Department. Brad’s expertise is corporate employer-employee relationship management. As a member of the Employment practice group, he provides preventative/proactive employment law advice to clients on an on-going basis and assists them in handling employment-related investigations, discipline and termination decisions, drafting and interpreting non-compete covenants, employment agreements, policies, procedures, and employee handbooks.

He also represents employers in a broad range of legal actions from discrimination and sexual harassment, to family and military leave and trade secret litigation. He’s represented employers in both class and individual employment-based litigation before state and federal courts and state agencies, such as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the Idaho Human Rights Commission, State Fair Employment Practices Agencies, and the State and Federal Departments of Labor.

Brad’s professional accomplishments and recognition include Martindale-Hubbell’s AV® Preeminent™ Lawyer Rating; Chambers & Partners—Labor and Employment Law (since 2009), Best Lawyers in America in Litigation—Labor and Employment, Mountain States Super Lawyers – Employment Litigation in 2024, the University of Idaho College of Law Award of Legal Achievement, and the Idaho Business Review’s Leaders in Law Partner 2020. He is also a frequent lecturer and provides training on all aspects of Employment Law.

SIGNIFICANT REPRESENTATION & experience

  • Ada County, Idaho
  • City of Sun Valley
  • College of Western Idaho
  • Illiad Media Group
  • Jacksons Food Stores
  • Moreton Insurance of Idaho
  • RedBuilt, LLC
  • Valley Ride
  • Verified First

PUBLICATIONS

Contributing editor of Bureau of National Affairs Treatises:
“Covenants Not to Compete, State By State Survey”
“Employee Duty of Loyalty”
“Trade Secrets”
“Tortious Interference in the Employment Context”

EDUCATION

Law School:

University of Idaho College of Law, J.D. summa cum laude, 1986

Undergraduate:

University of Idaho, B.S. cum laude, 1983

Clerkship

Law Clerk, Honorable Mikel H. Williams, U.S. Magistrate, District of Idaho, 1986-1988

BAR ADMISSIONS

Idaho

PROFESSIONAL/COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONS

American Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section

Idaho State Bar, Employment Law Section

Ballet Idaho Board of Directors, Vice President

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