About Merry Marr
Merry Marr has been actively practicing personal injury law since 2005. Her career has included representing clients in consumer rights matters and managing misdemeanor attorneys at the Office of the Public Defender. Throughout her career she has been committed to thorough client representation and has secured settlements up to seven figures for injured clients. Merry has substantial courtroom experience and is prepared to take cases to trial when needed. She believes client communication is central to a strong attorney-client relationship and to achieving the best possible outcome. Merry is proud to work for a locally based Montana firm and to serve Montanans across the state.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Heenan & Cook Injury and Accident Attorneys
These results are credited to Heenan & Cook Injury and Accident Attorneys. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
At CoreCivic's Crossroads Correctional Center in Shelby, Montana, an inmate serving a double life sentence let himself out of his own locked pod and into Nathaniel Lake's, then beat and choked him for more than three and a half minutes with no staff intervention. Lake was in a coma for 33 days and has a permanent brain injury.
A federal jury awarded $15 million to two families whose loved ones died at Canyon Creek Memory Care during a 2020 COVID-19 outbreak, finding the Billings facility and its parent company Koelsch Senior Communities liable for neglect through chronic understaffing.
Heenan and Cook secured a $9 million settlement from Custer County District High School on behalf of 32 former student athletes who were sexually abused over decades by longtime school athletic trainer James 'Doc' Jensen.
In 2015 a woman on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation called authorities because she was worried someone might be drinking and driving. The Bureau of Indian Affairs officer who responded assaulted her. A federal judge fixed damages at $1.6 million in 2020, and after nearly a decade of litigation over whether the United States was responsible, ordered it to pay in 2025.
A federal jury found that a North Dakota debt-collection law firm violated the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act by filing and pursuing a credit card lawsuit it knew was barred by Montana's statute of limitations, awarding Timothy McCollough $311,000 in statutory, emotional distress, and punitive damages.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
