Hugh Eastwood is an accomplished civil rights litigator who tries cases as a team with other experienced lawyers. Hugh also counsels small businesses, property owners, and trusts and estates. In 2024, Missouri Lawyers Weekly named Hugh as an “Influential Appellate Attorney of the Year.”
Hugh has won significant jury verdicts, and also negotiated, mediated or arbitrated the successful resolutions of claims and defenses—not just as to damages, but also as to policy matters. He has briefed and argued numerous appeals in the federal and state courts. Hugh has published and lectured on topics including immunity doctrine, insurance coverage, and jury instructions in the context of constitutional torts.
Before law school, Hugh managed the site design competition for the rebuilding of the World Trade Center at Ground Zero.
Hugh serves on the boards of several nonprofits listed below, and interviews applicants to Yale. He is competent with written French and Spanish.
National Police Accountability Project (Board of Directors)
Kairos Academies (Board of Directors, former Board President)
Missouri Appleseed (Board of Directors, former Board Secretary)
Yale Club of St. Louis (past President)
Yale Alumni Schools Committee (St. Louis director)
Education
Yale Law School
J.D.
Yale University
B.A. with distinction in History
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