John Powers

Attorney

25 yrs experience
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Bar admitted 2000
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Chicago, IL

Bar admissions

Illinois
2000

Education

J.D.: The John Marshall Law School2000
Undergraduate: Eastern Illinois University1996

Awards and recognition

01William J. Harte Amicus Volunteer Award (2009)
02Leading Lawyers Network (2011-present)
03Best Lawyers in America (2012)
04Workplace Injury Law Group Top 100 Injured Workers' Attorneys (2014)

Memberships

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

Publications

Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Workers' Compensation Notebook, Chapter 1: Procedures and Summons-Request for Review (since 2002)
Drafted 2005 amendments to the Illinois Workers' Compensation Act

Background

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.

Notable cases

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Beelman Trucking v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (2009)
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Szkubel v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (2010)
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Vandenberg v. Amb Tran Group, Ltd — $1.1M settlement (2011)
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Cedillo v. Entertainment Media Specialists — $745,000 settlement (2013)
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Kawa v. Illinois Workers' Compensation Commission (2013)
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Bartolomeo v. Cook County Sheriff's Dept. (2018)

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