Thomas J. Higgs, Esq.

Tom Higgs joined E. Stewart Jones Hacker Murphy in 2012 after successfully handling a broad array of cases in both Federal and State courts for various clients involving a wide range of matters that included: a class action antitrust lawsuit against graphic chip manufacturers; plaintiffs in product liability actions, municipalities and their employees — including law enforcement officials — in various capacities; a Fortune 500 company under investigation by the Department of Justice; and a NY sports and entertainment network in arbitration against a cable distributor in a carriage dispute.
Tom was previously an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP and at Murphy, Burns, Barber & Murphy, LLP.

Prior to entering the practice of law, Tom worked as an English teacher for the Japanese Ministry of Education in Japan, as a purchasing manager for an international food company in Philadelphia, and as a manager in the Copper Trading Department of Mitsubishi International Corporation in New York City.

Tom was a judicial extern for the Hon. Thomas E. Mercure, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department and also a research assistant to David D. Siegel, Distinguished Professor of Law at Albany Law School.

Published Works

AIDS: Overview of Legal Issues, Representing People With Disabilities, 2003

Past Employment Positions

Honorable Thomas E. Mercure, New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, Judicial Extern
Japanese Ministry of Education in Japan
Mitsubishi International Corporation, Manager