Credentials
- Workers’ Compensation
- Atlantic County Bar Association
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Widener University School of Law, J.D. 1997
- West Virginia University, B.A. 1993
- New Jersey Association for Justice
About terri
Terri Hiles is a devoted workers’ compensation attorney with more than 25 years of legal experience representing injured workers in traumatic injury claims as well as occupational exposure claims.
Ms. Hiles attended West Virginia University where she majored in political science and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1993. She then enrolled in law school at Widener University School of Law located in Wilmington, Delaware and received her Juris Doctor degree from Widener University in 1997. Ms. Hiles was admitted to the New Jersey State Bar in 1998 and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey in 1999.
After being admitted to the Bar, Ms. Hiles joined a private Atlantic City, NJ law firm as an associate in the workers’ compensation department. In addition to having private firm experience, Ms. Hiles held a position in the Law Department of the Atlantic County Government as Assistant County Counsel, where her primary focus was on the handling of workers’ compensation claims. Ms. Hiles remained with Atlantic County Government for over 11 years and thereafter accepted a position as an associate with a South Jersey law firm where she continued to represent injured workers in all aspects of their workers’ compensation claims. She became a partner with the law firm and remained with the firm until June 2025 when she accepted her current position as a workers’ compensation attorney with Kotlar, Hernandez and Cohen.