John McHugh is a litigation associate with the firm.

John focuses his practice on civil and commercial litigation.  Prior to joining Reilly Pozner, he was an associate with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan in New York City.

John earned his law degree from New York University School of Law, where he was a teaching assistant, on the Moot Court Board and a training director with the NYU Mediation Organization.  He also participated in the Federal Defenders Clinic, representing indigent clients in federal misdemeanor and felony cases.

Prior to law school, John worked for Houghton Mifflin Co. in Boston, where he was an editor in the division that publishes college textbooks.  He also spent a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, assisting the indigent in Billings, Montana.

John holds an undergraduate degree, with honors, in English and classical studies from the University of Idaho.  He spent a year studying Irish literature at Trinity College in Dublin – where he also took up fencing and was named fencing rookie of the year.

John is on the trial team for these cases:

Nine retired Denver Bronco players filed workers’ compensation claims in California for injuries they incurred during their football careers with the team.  The team’s insurer denied coverage and filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver.  The lawsuit names the players as well as the Broncos organization as defendants.  Reilly Pozner is litigation counsel for the Denver Broncos Football Club and its ownership.

“I enjoyed attending law school and working at a big law firm in New York City, but it is really great to be back in the West.  I was raised on a small family ranch in rural Idaho.  When you work on a ranch, there is no time clock.  If something needs to be done, you work until it is done.  I was raised this way, and I bring the same work ethic to the legal work that I do for my clients.”