Jack R. Hilgeman, ESQ.

Jack Hilgeman is a personal injury attorney who has dedicated his entire career to helping people injured by the negligence of others. His practice focuses on personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, and product liability, and he has obtained more than $25 million in settlements and judgments for his clients. Jack is a fourth-generation lawyer, having followed in the footsteps of his father, John P. Hilgeman, his grandfather, Jack E. Staley, and his great-grandfather, the Honorable Simon L. Leis. During law school, he spent time in the Montgomery County Prosecutor's Office before joining Cowan & Hilgeman in 2010. In 2011, he joined a small firm in San Diego, but returned home to Ohio in 2012, where he joined a mid-sized plaintiff's firm and led its personal injury practice. Through hard work and commitment to his clients, Jack grew that firm's personal injury practice by more than 1,000%. In 2017, he rejoined Cowan & Hilgeman and assumed leadership of the firm's tort practice. Jack earned his Bachelor of Arts with honors from the University of Cincinnati in 2007 and his Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton in 2010. He is admitted to practice in Ohio and California, as well as before the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Ninth Circuits, and the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of California and the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio. Jack's work has earned recognition from regional and national publications. He is a Life Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, a distinction limited to fewer than 1% of U.S. lawyers. He holds an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell—the highest level of professional excellence—and has been named to America's Top 100 High Stakes Litigators, The National Trial Lawyers Top 40 Under 40, and Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers. He maintains a 10.0 Superb rating on AVVO.