Hugh D. Berkson

Overview

Hugh D. Berkson is a Principal attorney at McCarthy Lebit and focuses his practice in securities arbitration and litigation. After gaining extensive trial experience in both business and personal injury litigation, he began representing injured investors who lost money in the stock market or thanks to fraudulent conduct of financial advisors. Hugh tries and arbitrates investment cases and performs much of the required technical analysis. He works carefully with his clients as the case strategy develops because he believes that a close relationship allows the client to fully understand the value of their case and be able to make decisions accordingly. While Hugh prides himself on his ability to settle both small and large, complex cases, he has considerable experience taking cases to trial or arbitration with successful results.

Hugh obtained a business degree in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin and is a graduate of Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he was a member of the Order of the Barristers and received both the American Jurisprudence Award (National Mock Trial) and the Jonathan M. Ault Mock Trial Prize. He later served as an Adjunct Professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he taught trial practice.

Hugh is the past President of the Public Investors Arbitration Bar Association (PIABA), an international legal association composed of practitioners who represent investors in disputes with the securities industry. He also served past terms as Vice President and Board of Directors of PIABA. Hugh regularly participates as both a moderator and panelist at PIABA’s national meetings and seminars and has been a panelist at the annual nationally simulcasted PLI Securities Arbitration Program in New York City, as well as the Ohio Securities Conference.  He has served as a resource regarding important issues concerning American investors, and has been quoted by the Wall Street Journal, Investment News, On Wall Street, Financial Planning, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and other media outlets. Hugh maintains a Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review rating of AV^® Preeminent^™.