About Jeremy
Jeremy Hugus combines training in science, ethics and law. He earned a J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law after completing an M.S. in Bioethics & Health Law Policy at Loyola University Chicago. His undergraduate degree is a B.S. in Biology and Chemistry from Northwest Nazarene College. That mix of disciplines shows in the arc of his career.
Early work found him in the lab and in global health. In 2004 he worked as a biochemistry research fellow at Idaho State University College of Pharmacy. A few years later he served as a bioethics fellow at the World Health Organization. Those roles led to consulting and teaching assignments. In 2010 he was a bioethics consultant through Clinical Ethics Consultancy, LLC and also taught as a professor of clinical ethics at Regis University.
He moved into civil and criminal litigation in the decade that followed. In 2010 he joined Miller Law Office as a litigation lawyer, then took an oil and gas role at Veltri Law Office in 2011. He returned to litigation with Murane & Bostwick in 2012. In 2014 he opened Platte River Injury Law in the Casper, Wyoming area. Three years later he founded Cowboy Country Criminal Defense, also in Wyoming. His track record includes both representing individuals in injury matters and taking criminal cases to trial.
Hugus is admitted to practice in Colorado and Wyoming. He is also a graduate of the Trial Lawyers College, a credential that signals courtroom training and an emphasis on trial advocacy. His background in bioethics and health law informs how he approaches cases that touch on medical issues. The combination of clinical ethics and litigation experience is unusual. It gives him a different set of questions to ask during case preparation.
Colleagues and clients see a lawyer who moves between roles easily. He has worked in academic, consulting and firm settings. He has taken responsibility for small practices and for specialized assignments in the energy sector. He has handled litigation tasks at each stop. Courtroom work and client counseling both figure prominently in his practice history.
Today he maintains offices under the names Platte River Injury Law and Cowboy Country Criminal Defense. He continues to represent clients in Wyoming and Colorado, and he draws on his bioethics training when cases intersect with medical or scientific issues. His current practice centers on criminal defense and personal injury matters in the region.
