About Erin L. Powers
Erin Powers is a dedicated trial attorney known for her compassion, sharp legal analysis, and relentless advocacy. With nearly two decades of courtroom experience, Erin has secured landmark verdicts and settlements in cases involving wrongful death, medical malpractice, toxic exposure, and catastrophic injury.
Erin graduated in the top ten percent of her class at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, in 2006, where she honed her trial skills as a member of the nationally recognized Byrne Trial Advocacy Team. During law school, she clerked for the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office as a certified law clerk, handling more than 30 juvenile and adult adjudications and earning recognition for her courtroom advocacy.
Following graduation, Erin worked as a litigation associate at a Los Angeles law firm specializing in public law and complex civil litigation. She distinguished herself as both a city prosecutor and litigator, developing the strong trial foundation that would define her career.
In 2010, Erin relocated to Colorado, where she continued practicing law after being admitted to the state bar. She quickly made an impact as a county attorney, taking the lead in a complex federal civil rights case headed for trial within her first six months. Over the next six years, she advised the county sheriff’s office, built a reputation as a skilled trial lawyer, and handled high-stakes state and federal litigation.
Erin’s career is marked by high-profile results and a reputation as a fearless advocate for individuals and families harmed by corporate negligence, unsafe products, and reckless behavior.
When not at work, you will find Erin camping, off-roading, and exploring with her husband and two kids.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Trial Lawyers for Justice
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Carrie DeJongh, 40, of Hull, Iowa, died on June 9, 2015 after receiving iodinated contrast dye for a CT scan at Sioux Center Health, when the physician treating her gave her an antihistamine but did not immediately check her vital signs or give epinephrine. Her family sued Sioux Center Health and Dr. Roy T. Slice for negligence, and both defendants denied the allegations. A Sioux County jury in Orange City returned a $29.5 million verdict on June 13, 2018, covering DeJongh's pain and suffering before her death and loss of consortium for her husband and four children. No appeal, remittitur or reduction has turned up since.
In February 2017, a physician assistant at a UnityPoint urgent care clinic in Des Moines diagnosed Joseph Dudley with the flu despite a negative flu test, sent him home on Tamiflu, and never ordered a complete blood count. Two days later Dudley was hospitalized with bacterial meningitis caused by an undetected heart valve infection, spent eight days in a medically induced coma, and suffered a series of strokes that left him with permanent brain damage, hearing loss, vertigo and nerve damage. A Polk County jury tried the malpractice claim against physician assistant Melanie Choos and Central Iowa Hospital Corp, doing business as UnityPoint Clinic, over a week in November 2022 and returned a $27,000,000 verdict, all of it noneconomic damages. The defense moved for a new trial afterward and UnityPoint said it was weighing an appeal.
Richard J. Pellock, 80, had surgery to remove bladder cancer at UnityPoint Health Finley Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa in January 2015, and the operation succeeded. Days later he needed a second procedure for a post-surgical complication, and the nurse anesthetist handling that procedure induced anesthesia without first emptying his stomach despite signs he had a full one. Pellock aspirated, developed aspiration pneumonia and respiratory failure, and died. His widow and son sued the anesthesia group and a Dubuque County jury returned a $10 million verdict against it in September 2017, awarded entirely as loss-of-consortium damages. Defense lawyers were reported as saying they would challenge the verdict, but no Iowa appellate decision in the case has ever been published.
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