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About James Edwards
James C. Edwards is an associate attorney at Cogan & Power, P.C. He joined the firm as a law clerk in March 2021 during his second year of law school and was sworn into the Illinois Bar in November 2022. His practice covers FELA claims, medical malpractice, motor vehicle accidents, and personal injury matters. He secured a $6.25 million verdict for a patient whose ophthalmologist implanted an incorrect cataract lens, causing prolonged vision complications. Edwards graduated summa cum laude from the University of Oregon in 2016 with a B.S. in Political Science and Gender Studies, then earned his J.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Law in 2022, where he served as Presiding Barrister of the Trial Advocacy Board and a senior editor of The Decisive Utterance. He serves on the boards of two nonprofits supporting incarcerated youth education and re-entry programs for formerly incarcerated individuals.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Cogan & Power, P.C.
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A Kendall County jury awarded Logan Bland, a Marine Corps veteran left a quadriplegic after bar staff broke his neck while removing him from a Plano bar, $51.6 million in 2021. The award was reduced to roughly $41 million for Bland's 20 percent share of fault and stood as the largest verdict in county history until the Illinois Appellate Court reversed it in January 2023 and ordered a new trial.
Michael Parsons, a Norfolk Southern conductor, had his left foot crushed between two railcars at the company's 51st/55th Street yard in Chicago after 2010 track work narrowed the clearance between two adjacent tracks to as little as 10 feet 6 inches. A Cook County jury found Parsons zero percent negligent and awarded $22,474,102 in November 2015. The trial court ordered a $1 million remittitur from the lost-earnings portion of the award, which Parsons accepted, reducing the judgment to $21,474,102. The Illinois Appellate Court affirmed that judgment in August 2017, and the U.S. Supreme Court denied Norfolk Southern's petition for further review in October 2018.
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