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John Powers

Attorney at Ankin Law

Chicago, IL25 years experienceAdmitted 2000

Workplace Injury

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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

Workplace Injury

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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