Mr. Power joined the law firm of Power Rogers in November of 2016. Mr. Power primarily focuses his practice in the area of personal injury and wrongful death including medical malpractice, automotive and trucking negligence, products liability, premises liability, breach of contract and other professional malpractice. In addition, Mr. Power assists Mr. Devon Bruce in pursuing environmental claims on behalf of home-rule cities and small towns across the State of Illinois. Since joining the firm, Mr. Power has successfully secured or assisted in securing over $400 million on behalf of the firm's clients. These successes include a $95.4 million verdict obtained on behalf of a truck driver who suffered bi-lateral above the knee amputation following a crushing injury in premises/products liability case; a $5 million verdict obtained on behalf of a secretary who was shot in the foot during a work-place violence incident that occurred at a downtown high-rise building in a negligent security case; a $21.6 million verdict obtained on behalf of a truck driver who suffered a severe brain injury after falling from his truck due to a faulty grab handle in a products liability case; a $17.5 million settlement in a case where a bicyclist suffered a below the knee amputation of her right leg after a semi-truck took a right turn in front of her in a general negligence lawsuit; a $5.7 million judgment brought on behalf of a law firm against the firm's former client who refused to pay fair and reasonable compensation in a breach of contract action; a $6 million (limits of insurance policy) settlement obtained on behalf of an acrobat who was injured on a movie set in a general negligence lawsuit; a $5.3 million settlement obtained on behalf of an individual who obtained an infection at a hospital in a products liability lawsuit; a $10 million settlement obtained on behalf of an individual who was shot by Chicago Police Officers; and a $25 million settlement obtained on behalf of an individual who was rendered a quadriplegic following a fall on a boat while out on Lake Michigan. Mr. Power has extensive experience in the areas of pre-trial motion practice, pre-trial litigation, including the taking and defending of expert and fact witness depositions, and litigation. At a time when most young lawyers are hard pressed to obtain any real trial experience, Mr. Power has already served as the 1st or 2nd chair on numerous trials over his short career. Prior to attending the University of Arizona where he studied history and political science, Mr. Power grew up in the City of Chicago, on the City's Northside. After obtaining his undergraduate degree in 2012, Mr. Power returned to Chicago to attend Loyola University Chicago School of Law. During his time at Loyola, Mr. Power focused his studies in the areas of civil litigation and trial advocacy, while working full time as a law clerk for Power Rogers. In 2016, Mr. Power received his JD from Loyola as well as a certificate of merit from the school's trial advocacy program. Mr. Power is admitted to practice law in the State of Illinois, as well as the United States District Court for the State of Illinois. Mr. Power is an active member of various professional organizations including, the Chicago Bar Association, Illinois Trial Lawyers Association, American Bar Association, Illinois State Bar Association and the American Association for Justice.

Admitted to practice since 2006, Ami Jayne has focused solely within the field of Family Law. She is proud to have expanded the definition of abuse within the coercive control element in Connecticut Jurisprudence under Jennifer’s Law as well as litigated a seminal case surrounding financial contributions to college by parents. Joining practice with Kevin in 2007, attaining the partner role in 2021, Ami Jayne developed the empathy and skill to listen and advocate most effectively for her clients. Having the distinction of being appointed by the Court and sharpening trial advocacy skills in litigation, Ami Jayne is proud of her client-tailored legal approach to the client’s particular needs with a specific focus on vigorous defense of clients when they have otherwise been traditionally marginalized or abused within a domestic relationship. She perceives her negotiation and litigation skills can assist in determining whether alternate dispute resolution is prudent. Experience in a courtroom can best steer one towards settlement. As a law student, Ami Jayne enjoyed a position on the Roger Williams University School of Law Honor Board as well as having the privilege of interning for now United States Senator Sheldon Whitehouse while he held position of Rhode Island Attorney General. Ami Jayne enjoyed her roles on the Connecticut Bar Association, Family Law Section, “Covid-19 Response Council” as well as being an active member with the Fairfield County Bar Association and distinguished among “Lawyers of Distinction,” “10 Best Attorneys,” “Lawyer of Distinction,” and “Top 10 Female Attorney.”

Mr. Powers was born and raised in Miami, Florida. After graduating from Archbishop Curley High School in 1964, he attended the College of Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts and majored in French. He spent the summer after his junior year traveling abroad in Europe and studying French at a school in Pau, France while living with a local French family. After graduation from college in 1968, Mr. Powers returned to Miami and attended University of Miami Law School and joined Delta Theta Phi law fraternity. However, law school was interrupted by the War in Vietnam. After the first year of law school Mr. Powers enlisted in the Navy and served as a personnel man aboard a destroyer DD-763 William C. Law based in Jacksonville, Florida and as a French interpreter for the Navy at Mare Island, California. Later he attended Officer Candidate School in Newport, Rhode Island and Damage Control School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He served as a line officer aboard a cable repair ship ARC-2 Neptune for two years. After the decommissioning of his ship, Mr. Powers served in the Naval Reserves and subsequently received an honorable discharge. Mr. Powers returned to the University of Miami School of law and graduated in 1976. While in law school Mr. Powers clerked for a defense law firm on Miami Beach and worked in the law school library. In the last year of law school he was an intern with Legal Services of Greater Miami and specialized in civil litigation. After passing the Florida Bar Mr. Powers worked in a large law firm in Miami for 11 years and specialized in the defense of cases concerning general liability, products liability, and medical malpractice involving doctors, hospitals, and nursing homes. Mr. Powers then worked for two years in a small law firm in Ft. Lauderdale with a varied legal practice and he gained experience in probate estates, liability cases, domestic cases, and landlord-tenant cases. In 1990 Mr. Powers started working for a law firm in Miami specializing in workers’ compensation law. For five (5) years Mr. Powers spent his vacations in Costa Rica in a two week total immersion Spanish language program attending language school and living with a local family in San Jose, Costa Rica. Mr. Powers obtained a Masters Degree of Business Administration from Barry University and in 1994 he was admitted into Delta Mu Delta, the National Honorary Society in Business Administration. Mr. Powers also obtained a Master of Science Degree in Health Services Administration from Barry University. In the year 2000 Mr. Powers joined a law firm specializing in the defense of employers and carriers in workers’ compensation cases throughout the State of Florida. In 2013 Mr. Powers concentrated on representing only injured workers in workers compensation and became of counsel to the law firm of DeVarona Arango & Weinstein, P.A. as well as starting his own law firm. Mr. Powers obtained an LLM. In Elder Law from Stetson University College of Law in 2018. Throughout his years of practice, he has regularly attended continuing legal education courses, seminars, and conferences in order to keep up with the latest developments in laws, rules, and judicial decisions.

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Elizabeth E. Powers is a solo intellectual property attorney practicing in Carmel, CA, at Powers Law Firm. With over 25 years of experience with trademarks, patents, and licensing/transactions, she has worked extensively with start-up technology companies in formulating IP strategies, obtaining and licensing IP rights, and conducting due diligence. Ms. Powers is a published author on IP strategy. She taught IP strategy courses at Santa Clara University School of Law, and was a Professor of Practice at the Leavey School of Business, where she taught IP and business law courses to MBA, MA, and undergraduate students. She frequently lectures on IP and U.S. law matters both domestically and internationally. Ms. Powers work experience ranges from small IP firms, to large multi-national law firms, as well as in-house counsel at Bayer Corp. and general counsel at a start-up technology company. Her B.S., JD/MBA, and M.A. are from Santa Clara University, and she has an LL.M.