Power Rogers LLP
70 W. Madison St., 55th Fl.
Chicago, IL 60602-4212
(312) 236-9381
joepower@powerrogers.comwww.powerrogers.comJoseph A. Power, Jr., founding partner of Power Rogers, LLP, is one of Illinois leading trial lawyers and a Past-President of the Inner Circle of Advocates, Public Justice, and the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Raised on Chicagos South Side, he became the youngest attorney in the country to win a million-dollar verdict at age 28. He has since secured more than 200 verdicts and settlements exceeding $1 million, including landmark recoveries across medical malpractice, trucking negligence, product liability, wrongful death, and catastrophic injury cases.
Power obtained one of the largest medical malpractice verdicts in Illinois history, $55.4 million, and a $100 million trucking/products liability recovery that ultimately led to 76 criminal convictions, including the former Governor of Illinois, and the retesting of more than 2,000 truck drivers. He has repeatedly maximized limited insurance cases, including nearly $40 million for an Illinois family after a fatal trucking crash; $23 million for a seriously injured truck driver; and $27,375,000 for a family killed in a rear-end semi-truck collision, achieved by establishing agency theories extending liability to the shipper and broker.
Together with James Power, he secured a record $95,477,464 verdict (reduced to $85,929,717.60) for a truck driver who lost both legs, the largest contested-liability personal-injury verdict in Illinois. Immediately afterward, he, James Power, and Larry Rogers, Jr. earned a $33.4 million negligent-security verdict. He also achieved:
- $21.6 million products verdict against Navistar for a defective tractor-trailer grab handle.
- $10 million settlement for a sewer worker killed in a trench collapse due to shield failure.
- $91,000 settlement against 7-Eleven for a vehicle-into-pedestrian collision causing bilateral leg crush injuries.
Additional notable results include $12.5 million for the family of a teenager who died after a hospital allowed him to bleed outside its ER, prompting federal review of emergency-care obligations; $7 million for defamation on behalf of the Illinois Supreme Courts Chief Justice; and $50 million for a man electrocuted while trimming a tree near unmarked power lines. He recently obtained $20.858 million against multiple defendants in Nebraska for negligent misrepresentation and aiding and abetting related to a salvaged vehicle.
Power has consistently delivered major medical-malpractice verdicts, including recoveries of $43 million, $35 million, $30 million, $25 million, $21.7 million, $18.75 million, $18 million, $15.7 million, $13 million, $12.8 million, $12.5 million, $12.25 million, and $12 million, each resulting in substantial insurance payouts.
Regularly named among the top lawyers in Illinois and the nation, Power has been recognized by LawDragon (Top 500), Leading Lawyers, Super Lawyers (Top 10 in Illinois), and Best Lawyers in America. His honors include: Protector of the Working Man, Citizen of the Year, Illinois State Bar Association Medal of Merit, Loyola University Medal of Excellence, the Leonard Ring Award, the Justice John Paul Stevens Award, and a Lifetime Achievement Award for Trial Lawyer Excellence.
Under his leadership, Power Rogers has been ranked the No. 1 Chicago personal-injury firm in total recoveries for 13 of the last 15 years, securing more than $6 billion in verdicts and settlements for its clients.
