Michael Huber, workers' compensation lawyer

As a workers' compensation defense lawyer, Michael Huber "was a little like Jimmy Stewart, very earnest, like a Boy Scout," his Haddonfield law partner William T. Freeman said.

Freeman recalled that in one case, Mr. Huber won a decision before the New Jersey Workers' Compensation Court in Camden.

But while Mr. Huber was away, an appellate court "very promptly reversed" the decision, Freeman said, "because of him, because he wasn't there to argue it."

And because of his Stewartian earnestness, Freeman said, Mr. Huber was "someone you could trust with the most delicate of personal information without any fear."

On Saturday, June 18, Mr. Huber, 60, of Haddonfield, a lawyer there since 1981 for Freeman Huber Sacks Brennan & Fingerman, died of melanoma at Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly.

He became a partner in 1986 with the Freeman firm, which in 2016 became part of the law firm Brown & Connery.

Born in Lakewood, N.J., Mr. Huber grew up in Toms River, N.J., and in 1973 graduated from what is now Donovan Catholic High School there.

Mr. Huber earned a bachelor's degree in history, magna cum laude, at Dickinson College in 1977 and graduated from the Rutgers University School of Law in Camden in 1980.

For a year, said his wife, Deborah, Mr. Huber was a clerk for Superior Court Judge J. Gilbert Van Sciver and then joined the Freeman firm.

Mr. Huber was a volunteer in the Justice James H. Coleman Jr. Chapter of the American Inns of Court, which mentors young lawyers, his wife said.

He was a former member of the District IV Committee of the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics.

And he was a eucharistic minister who visited the sick for Christ the King Church in Haddonfield.

Besides his wife, Mr. Huber is survived by his father, William; sons Matthew and Andrew; two brothers; and four sisters.

A visitation was set from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, June 23, at Christ the King Church, 200 Windsor Ave., Haddonfield, before a Funeral Mass there at 11 a.m. Friday, June 24, with interment in Colestown Cemetery, Cherry Hill.

Donations may be sent to guadalupefamilyservices.org.

Condolences may be offered to the family at kainmurphy.com.

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