MESSAGE 15: JOSHUA T. HIGGINS

Joshua T. Higgins

Partner & Business Unit Leader, Kelley Kronenberg

Question:  As a leader, what is your message to Americans who are frightened about the future due to the Coronavirus?

Message: It’s okay to be afraid, as this is an unprecedented event that has altered almost every aspect of daily life.  However, approach this as an opportunity for growth, not an impediment to success.  Treat each day as an opportunity to learn and better yourself, and in so doing, you can come out of this incredibly difficult time as a progressed, better version of yourself, rather than a regressed, worse version.

My father often told my brother Justin and I that “effort is controllable,” a mantra which he and I have bound ourselves to during childhood and into adulthood, to the present day.  While situations and circumstances cannot always be controlled—such as COVID-19—your attitude and the effort you put in to maximizing your potential is always controllable.

With maximizing effort on a daily basis, and approaching this situation as an opportunity for growth, you can succeed on both a micro and macro level and emerge from this momentous event as a better version of yourself.

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Joshua T. Higgins is a Partner and Business Unit Leader in Kelley Kronenberg’s Fort Lauderdale, Florida office. Kelley Kronenberg is a full-service law firm comprised of 11 offices in Florida and Illinois with more than 150 attorneys. Joshua manages a workers’ compensation defense unit of 11 people, and has additional experience in police professional litigation, correctional healthcare claims, and OSHA.

Prior to joining the firm, Joshua worked as an Assistant State Attorney at the State Attorney’s Office, 17th Judicial Circuit, in both the felony trial unit and county court division.  While there, Joshua tried more than 30 bench trials and 22 jury trials, with one trial featured on the local Fox News.

During law school at Nova Southeastern University - Shepard Broad College of Law, Joshua served as the Chairperson of Administration for the Moot Court Honor Society, a Staff Member for the Inter-American Center for Human Rights, and the Secretary for the National Security and Law Society.  He received a perfect score from the Chief Justice in the first round of the ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition, and placed in the top eight out of more than 125 students in the Feinrider Moot Court Competition.  Joshua was one of 40 law students selected nationwide as a summer fellow for the Florida Bar Foundation, which resulted in him working at Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida doing foreclosure defense for indigent elderly citizens.

Prior to entering law school, Joshua obtained his undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, graduating magna cum laude, where he was selected for induction into the Phi Beta Kappa Society and was listed in Who’s Who Among American College Students.  Additionally, Joshua was chosen as a Renaissance Scholar, an award bestowed on less than 4% of graduates that year, for those exhibiting scholarly excellence in at least two widely disparate areas of study.

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Photo: Courtesy Joshua T. Higgins