About Philip McGrady
Philip McGrady has represented clients from across Montana and the United States in personal injury and civil litigation matters, including arguments before the Montana Supreme Court and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is a graduate of James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and the University of Montana School of Law. During law school he was a member of the National Moot Court Team, clerked for United States Magistrate Judge Leif Erickson, and taught first-year students in legal research and writing.
After graduation, Philip clerked for Superior Court Judge Dan Hensley in Anchorage, Alaska, and for Yellowstone County District Court Judge Russell Fagg in Billings, Montana, before joining Edwards, Frickle & Culver in 2005. Philip is licensed in Montana and Alaska and is a member of the American Association for Justice, the Montana Trial Lawyers Association, and the National Trial Lawyers. He is based in Flathead County and handles cases throughout 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.
