Joseph A. Power Jr.

Joseph A. Power Jr. is an award-winning trial lawyer whose career has combined courtroom advocacy with sustained public service and leadership in the civil justice system. As a founding partner of Power Rogers, he has spent decades representing individuals and families in cases involving catastrophic injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, and transportation safety, often against some of the most powerful corporate and institutional defendants in the country.

Throughout his nationally renowned and respected career, Mr. Power’s litigation has produced outcomes that extended far beyond individual recoveries. His work has exposed systemic failures in healthcare, transportation, and regulatory oversight, leading to changes in industry practices, government review, and public safety standards. Among his most consequential cases was a trucking litigation matter that uncovered widespread corruption in commercial driver licensing, resulting in 76 criminal convictions, including that of a former Illinois governor, and the retesting of thousands of truck drivers nationwide.

Mr. Power has tried hundreds of cases and secured more than $1 billion in recoveries for his clients. His trial record includes the largest medical malpractice jury verdict in Illinois history and numerous multi-million-dollar outcomes in cases involving severe injury and loss of life. Early in his career, he became the youngest lawyer in the United States to obtain a jury verdict exceeding $1 million, trying the case alone after rejecting a nominal settlement offer. He has never lost a medical malpractice case at trial.

Public service has been a defining thread in Mr. Power’s professional life. He has held leadership roles in many of the nation’s most prominent trial-lawyer organizations, including serving as President of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, the Illinois Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, and the Inner Circle of Advocates, an invitation-only group limited to the top 100 plaintiff trial lawyers in the United States. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers and has served on advisory bodies addressing legal ethics, trial advocacy, and court rules.

Mr. Power’s contributions to the law have been widely recognized by peers and public-interest organizations alike. His honors include Public Justice’s Champion of Justice Award, the Illinois Bar Foundation’s Distinguished Award for Excellence, the Illinois State Bar Association’s Medal of Merit, and induction into the Lawdragon 500 Hall of Fame. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America every year since 1987.
Mr. Power earned his Juris Doctor from Loyola University Chicago School of Law and his undergraduate degree, with high honors, from the University of Notre Dame. He is admitted to practice in Illinois, multiple federal district courts, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.