Profile
Hillarie Miller is a graduate of the University of Idaho, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Crime and Justice Studies. She graduated cum laude from the Florida Coastal School of Law, ranking in the top 6% of her class. While in law school, she served as Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and received numerous academic accolades. She was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2012.
Ms. Miller is a former prosecutor with extensive courtroom experience, having successfully prosecuted hundreds of cases in misdemeanor, juvenile, and felony court. She has been professionally recognized for her trial work and was awarded the Trial Top Gun award for the State Attorney’s Office, 7th Judicial Circuit, Florida. Additionally, Ms. Miller has worked in private practice as a civil litigator. Her prior experience includes Engle progeny tobacco litigation, products liability, wrongful death, premise liability, worker’s compensation, and automobile negligence.
Education
- Florida Coastal School of Law – Juris Doctor
- University of Idaho – Bachelor of Arts in Crime and Justice Studies
Practice Areas
- Construction litigation
- Professional liability
- Premises liability
- Personal injury
- Products liability
- Negligent Security
- Criminal Law
- Civil Litigation
- Contracts
Admissions
- Florida
Awards & Organizations
- Trial Top Gun Award, Office of the State Attorney, 7th Judicial Circuit
- St. Johns County Bar Association, Treasurer, 2020
- Editor-in-Chief, The Florida Coastal Law Review, 2011-2012
- Dean’s Scholar, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Book Award in Persuasive Legal Writing
- Best Oral Advocate and Best Memo in Lawyering Process II
Reported Cases
- https://www.staugustine.com/story/special/2020/03/12/jacksonville-man-gets-8-years-in-prison-for-hit-and-run-that-killed-2-women-on-racetrack-road/1536029007/
- A 65-year-old man was sentenced on four counts of sexual battery on a mentally defective person Tuesday after a jury trial
- Man gets 8 years in embezzlement case
- Judge sentences man to life in rape cases
- A Palatka woman who was accused of hitting a woman over the head with a beer bottle last summer is facing up to 30 years
- Pleading out to killing her 5-year-old daughter in a head on collision while high on drugs cost a Hollister woman 15 years in prison
- An attempt to run over a man in a parking lot sent 48-year-old Tangie Lyvonnie Paul to prison for 10 years
- A second woman arrested for nearly beating a woman to death headed to prison after an interim judge sent her away