Professional Leadership

One way to measure the regard in which an attorney is held is whether he or she has been elected to positions of leadership within the profession. Jerry McHugh has consistently been recognized as a leader of the Bar.

• He served as President of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation, a charitable affiliate of the Bar that promotes access to justice for the poor.
  
• He was elected President of the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, the oldest such association in the United States.
  
• The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania appointed him to three terms as Chair of the Interest on Lawyers Trust Account Board (IOLTA), a statewide agency that supports legal services for the indigent.
  
• He was asked to serve on the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Bar Association.
  
• The Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania appointed him as Chair of a Hearing Committee.
  
• He has served several terms of as a member of the Board of the Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, and chaired both its Legislative Policy Committee, and its Statewide Task Forces on Medical Malpractice and Product Liability.
  
• He has served on the Philadelphia Bar Association’s Commission for Judicial Evaluation, Selection, and Retention.
  
• He holds a seat on the Advisory Committee for Civil Rules of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
  
• He was invited to join the Board of Pennsylvania Legal Services, the funding agency for legal services programs serving the poor across the state.