Professional Achievement

Jerry McHugh’s accomplishments in the law have earned him a number of professional distinctions.

• In the first statewide SuperLawyers survey, in which 33,000 lawyers were polled, Mr. McHugh was rated as one of the top ten lawyers in Pennsylvania.
  
• He is listed in the current edition of Best Lawyers in America in the field of personal injury, based upon votes he received from fellow lawyers.
  
• The International Academy of Trial Lawyers has admitted him to Fellowship. The Academy’s membership is limited to 500 of the top trial attorneys in the United States.
  
• The American College of Trial Lawyers has named him a Fellow. The College’s membership is limited to attorneys rated among the top one percent of trial practitioners, based upon evaluations from other attorneys and judges.
  
• The American Law Institute (ALI), a national organization of legal scholars, judges, and lawyers dedicated to improving the law, elected him to membership.
  
• He has received the highest possible rating an attorney can achieve from the Martindale-Hubell Law Directory, for both legal ability and professional integrity.
  
• On several occasions, his verdicts or settlements have received attention in the National Law Journal or American Bar Association Journal, and he has achieved settlements for clients reaching seven or eight figures more than thirty times.
  
• He is one of only two lawyers in the history of the Bar to have received both the Fidelity Award of the Philadelphia Bar Association, for extraordinary contribution to the justice system, and the Justice Musmanno Award from the Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Association, for dedication to the innocent and injured.

Biographical Summary
Honors & Awards