About the firm

How the office works

We tell you where your case stands, what comes next, and when a matter belongs with someone else.

Most of our work arrives by referral — from former clients, and from other lawyers who send us the matters they do not handle. We try to be worth the recommendation.

Meet the team

Three areas of work

Each carries its own deadlines, and they usually start running before anyone calls a lawyer.

• Personal injury An injury leaves a record in several places at once: the incident report, the medical chart, the insurer’s file. We gather those records and deal with the insurer.
• Workers’ compensation An injury at work sets two clocks running, one for notice to your employer and one for the claim itself. We watch both.
• First responder law Line-of-duty injuries move through pension and disability boards on their own schedule. We prepare those filings and appear at the hearings.

From officer to attorney

Brian Millikan joined the St. Louis City police department in 1994 and left the force for law school at Saint Louis University. One minute, in his own words, on where the practice comes from.

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“I don’t think any of this needs to be more complicated than it is.”

Brian Millikan, from the firm’s video

Both sides of the table

After law school Brian spent his early legal career at Reinert & Rourke, defending insurance companies in construction and premises liability cases. So he has seen these cases from both sides of the table: he knows how an insurer values a claim, what its lawyers look for in a file, and where they expect an injured person to give up.

He opened this practice in 2006. Since then the work has been personal injury, workers’ compensation, and representing police officers and other first responders across the St. Louis area — handled in plain language, from the Kirkwood office.

1. 1994 Joins the St. Louis City police department
2. 2001 Saint Louis University School of Law; insurance defense at Reinert & Rourke
3. 2006 Opens Millikan Law Office

Where we work

The office is in Kirkwood, on Old Big Bend Road. Clients come from across greater St. Louis — the city, the county, and the surrounding Missouri counties. The first consultation is free, and can be at the office, by phone or by video call. Visits are by appointment.

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