Joseph A. Power Jr.

Joseph Power has obtained more than 200 jury verdicts and settlements in excess of $1 Million, including the largest jury verdict in Illinois history for a medical malpractice case of $55.4 Million and a recovery of $100 Million in a trucking case which led to seventy-six criminal convictions, including the former Governor of Illinois in the “licenses for bribes” scandal, which triggered the retesting of over 2000 truck drivers. He has recovered over $1 Billion for his clients. Recently, in 2017, Joseph Power and James Power obtained a verdict of $95,477,464.00 for a plaintiff who lost both of his legs when he was working as a truck driver and the cargo he was transporting fell onto him. The day after obtaining that verdict, Joseph Power, Larry Rogers, Jr. and James Power set out on another complex trial and obtained a verdict of $33.4 Million for their clients in a negligent security case against Allied Barton.

Mr. Power has never lost a medical malpractice case at trial. Mr. Power has tried and recovered numerous medical malpractice cases including $43,000.000.00, $35,000,000.00, $30,000,000, $25,000,000.00, $21,700,000.00, $18,750,000.00, $18,000,000.00, $15,700,000.00, $13,000,000.00, $12,800,000.00, $12,500,000.00, $12,250,000.00, and $12,000,000.00. Each one of his jury verdicts have resulted in the payment of between $43 and $2 million dollars, depending upon the amount of the defendant’s insurance policy.

At age 28, he became the youngest lawyer in the country to obtain a jury verdict in excess of a million dollars for his client. Mr. Power tried the case alone after the offer to settle for $75,000 was declined. In another noteworthy case, a local hospital allowed a teenage gunshot victim to bleed until he was near death in an alley outside its doors, until the police came to his rescue and carried him into the hospital. He later died. This case resulted in a federal investigation, review and clarification of the federal law concerning hospital emergency room duties. The family of the deceased teenager ultimately recovered $12.5 million.

Mr. Power has obtained similar success in each of his trucking cases. For example, an Illinois family recovered almost $40 million, which was all the insurance coverage available, when a husband and father of two was killed and his teenage daughter suffered serious injuries as a result of a negligent truck driver in Indiana. Mr. Power also obtained a $23 million dollar verdict for a 50 year old man seriously injured in a trucking collision in Illinois. In another case, Mr. Power represented the then Chief Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court where a jury awarded $7,000,000.00 for defamation.

In 2015, Mr. Power and Joseph Balesteri teamed up to recover $30,000,000.00 for a patient who ended up losing two kidneys after a surgery that was only supposed to remove one. Again in 2015, Mr. Power and Mr. Balesteri recovered $6,900,000.00 for the wrongful death of a wife and mother as a result of negligent post-delivery care. In addition, Mr. Power and Devon Bruce recovered $3,750,000.00 in Sangamon County for a 19 year-old who suffered from juvenile glaucoma and lost vision as a result of malpractice.

Also in 2015, after almost three weeks of trial and prior to closing arguments, Joe and his brother Tom recovered over $6,000,000.00, which was more than three times the offer prior to trial. In 2014, Mr. Power and Mr. Balesteri recovered $8,000,000.00 for a woman who was not treated for a pneumothorax after an auto accident resulting in brain damage. Mr. Power also recovered $5,400,000.00 for the family of a 15-year-old boy who drowned in Lake Michigan while attending a summer camp.

In February 2013, prior to jury selection, he settled a medical malpractice case for a brain damaged child for $35,000,000. In March 2013, Mr. Power obtained a $23,000,000 award for a young man who lost his legs in a bailor. In May 2013, he obtained a record verdict following a two week trial for his client in Ogle County of $5,000,000 in a motorcycle collision. He returned to Cook County and in July 2013 obtained a $7,250,000 trial verdict for a school teacher who was killed as a result of medical malpractice.

In late 2012, Mr. Power obtained a jury verdict of $3.1 Million Dollars for a 45 year-old Hispanic woman who was killed by a motor vehicle in an unwitnessed hit and run on Chicago's south side. Complicated forensic evidence developed by Mr. Power tied a school bus to the collision after the police department failed to charge anyone. The defendant’s insurance company offered only $500,000 to settle.

Mr. Power is a past President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association and current President of the Inner Circle of Advocates, which is a legal organization consisting of the best 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States. In addition, he is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is the immediate past President of both ABOTA (Illinois Chapter) and the past President of the Celtic Legal Society.

Mr. Power has been listed in the Harvard Law Graduates Naifeh and Smith book, The Best Lawyers in America, every year since 1987. The same publication names him the top personal injury lawyers in Illinois in 2014. The National Law Journal recognized him as one of the top ten litigators in the United States. Additionally, Joe has been repeatedly selected as one of the top lawyers by LawDragon, a group which selects the top 500 lawyers in the country, since inception and again in 2015. In 2019, he was named in a poll of his peers by the Leading Lawyers Network as the top plaintiff personal injury lawyer and the top consumer attorney in Illinois.

In 2012, Joe was presented with the “Champion of Justice” award by Public Justice, a national public interest law firm who, with dedicated plaintiffs’ attorneys, fight injustice and holds corporate and government wrongdoers accountable for their misconduct. He was also awarded the "Distinguished Award for Excellence" from the Illinois Bar Foundation, the "Medal of Merit" from the Illinois State Bar Association, the "Medal of Excellence" by the Loyola University of Chicago School of Law, the "Citizen of the Year" by the City Club of Chicago and the Civil Justice Foundation's "Special Commendation Award.”

Power Rogers has recovered over $4 billion dollars in verdicts and settlements. Power Rogers has achieved the #1 spot in the Chicago Lawyer Annual Settlement Survey again in 2018, meaning the firm obtained more dollars in recoveries than any other Chicago personal injury law firm in Illinois. In fact, Power Rogers has finished first in the settlement survey in ten of the last fifteen years and has held the first place spot for the past nine consecutive years, surpassing its next closest competitor by more than half a billion dollars in total recoveries since 2000.