Biography
EDWARD R. HUGO is a trial attorney and partner of Brydon Hugo & Parker, a California law firm with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Mr. Hugo specializes in the defense of products liability, toxic tort and environmental actions, with an emphasis on asbestos and silica personal injury, wrongful death and property damage cases. He gained his initial trial experience as a criminal prosecutor with the San Francisco District Attorney’s office. He left that office as a senior trial attorney after trying more than 115 cases (he was undefeated in all Superior Court jury and bench trials). Since then, he has gained extensive first chair asbestos trial experience representing “target” defendants. He has tried to defense verdict cases involving all of the alleged asbestos-related diseases, including mesothelioma, lung cancer, other cancer, asbestosis and pleural disease. Mr. Hugo serves as National Trial Counsel, Regional Counsel and Local Counsel for clients ranging from Fortune 100 companies to neighborhood hardware stores sued in their first case. He is a member of the California, Hawaii and Colorado bars, is a “Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate,” National Board of Trial Advocacy, and Certified Civil Trial Specialist, State Bar of California. He has also been retained as an expert witness and testified in deposition and trial regarding the effectiveness of defense strategies and the reasonableness of defense costs and settlement values.
Expert Articles
- Asbestos Jurisdictional Highlights In The United States: Laws In Flux, Courts In Crisis (December 19, 2012)