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About John Powers
John W. Powers is an attorney at Ankin Law in Chicago who has concentrated his entire practice on representing injured workers throughout Illinois since 2000. He authored Chapter 1 (Procedures and Summons-Request for Review) of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association's Workers' Compensation Notebook (since 2002) and drafted amendments to the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act signed into law in 2005, which established criminal penalties for uninsured employers and created the Injured Workers' Benefit Fund. He chaired the Illinois State Bar Association's Workers' Compensation Law Section from 2016 to 2017 and joined the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association's Board of Managers in 2017.
Practice areas
Education
The John Marshall Law School
J.D., 2000
Eastern Illinois University
Undergraduate, 1996
Bar admissions & credentials
State Bar of Illinois, admitted 2000
American Association for Justice
Chicago Bar Association
Illinois State Bar Association (Workers' Compensation Law Section Chair, 2016-2017)
Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (Board of Managers since 2017)
Workplace Injury Law Group
Workers' Compensation Lawyers Association
Workers' Injury Law & Advocacy Group
Awards & recognition
William J. Harte Amicus Volunteer Award (2009)
Leading Lawyers Network (2011-present)
Best Lawyers in America (2012)
Workplace Injury Law Group Top 100 Injured Workers' Attorneys (2014)
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$110 million · American Eagle Flight 4184: $110 Million Crash Settlement and a Courtroom Apology
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$75 million · John Hancock Center Scaffold Collapse: $75 Million Settlement for the Killed and Injured
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$363 million · Sterigenics Verdict: $363 Million for a Willowbrook Cancer Survivor
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$100 million · Willis Family Wrongful Death Settlement: $100 Million After Six Children Killed in I-94 Truck Crash
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$98.65 million · $98.65 Million Verdict for Family of Botham Jean, Shot in His Own Apartment by Off-Duty Dallas Officer