Hugh M. Turk has been the Member in charge of the Firm's New Jersey office since 1994. Mr. Turk is responsible for handling New Jersey personal injury matters, from inception through trial, in all of the Firm's practice areas. A 1973 graduate of Duke University School of Law, Hugh has spent his entire career in personal injury litigation.
In 1993, he was designated by the New Jersey Supreme Court as a Certified Civil Trial Attorney, an achievement attained by less than two percent of all New Jersey attorneys. In 2006, he was selected to serve on the Board of Governors of the New Jersey Association for Justice. During his twenty-six years with the Firm, Hugh has handled personal injury cases of all types -- product liability, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, general negligence and civil rights. He has had stellar results in the most difficult and unusual liability situations: $6 million for the wrongful death of a 65-year-old woman, over $5 million in a near drowning, over $5 million in a neonatal malpractice case, $4 million for surgical malpractice, $3 million for a worker who electrocuted himself, and $1.8 million in a premises liability case are just a few examples of his skill and diversity. In addition to being active in several bar associations and charitable organizations, Hugh served four terms as an elected member of his town's Borough Council, and was also its Police Commissioner and chair of the Public Safety Committee.