Teaching Advocacy
From an early point in his career, Jerry McHugh has contributed to the education of other lawyers.

• He has co-authored a two-volume text, Pennsylvania Torts: Law & Advocacy, which has been critically acclaimed in reviews, and is cited throughout the notes of Pennsylvania statutes.
  
• He has been elected to membership in the American Law Institute, a national organization of legal scholars, judges, and practitioners, dedicated to the improvement of the law.
  
• He has delivered more than 75 lectures on Pennsylvania tort law and trial advocacy to lawyers across the state.
  
• He has been invited to lecture at the State Conference of Trial Judges, and before the civil judges of the Philadelphia courts.
  
• He helped to design a unique training program for the Support Center for Child Advocates in Philadelphia and has done training sessions for the Philadelphia Volunteers for the Indigent Program.
  
• He has published numerous articles in professional journals on principles of law and trial skills.
  
• He has been invited to present his unique approach to advocacy as part of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s “Masters of Civil Trial Advocacy” series, and been invited to speak at New Jersey ATLA’s annual lecture by the country’s “top ten” trial lawyers.