Mark Edward Powers

California lawyer Mark Powers is an attorney specializing in criminal defense. He commands nearly 25 years of real-world experience representing clients, with nearly 20 of those years spent in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. Mark Powers specializes in representing clients in domestic violence, theft, drug offense, general criminal offense, and probation violation cases. He is practiced in representing at bail hearings and juvenile delinquency cases as well. No case is too simple or too complex for Mark Powers to try.

Mark Edward Powers earned his Juris Doctorate from the McGeorge School of Law at University of the Pacific in 1987. During his time at law school, he studied constitutional law under Anthony Kennedy, Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He became a member of the prestigious Traynor Honor Society and graduated with distinction as one of the outstanding members of his graduating class.

Aside from managing his own successful law practice for many years, Mark Powers has previous legal experience that gives him an especially broad understanding of the local justice system. In the past, Mark Powers worked as an Associate at the Law Offices of Roger M. Hubbard, where his duties included work on construction defects cases, alcoholic beverage control hearings, and family law cases, in addition to criminal defense experience. He conducted hearings, drafted appellate motions, took depositions, and became adept in many other aspects of the legal system. Mark Powers also served as a Deputy Public Defender in the Office of Public Defender for Santa Barbara County for several years, where he represented defendants in cases ranging from adult misdemeanors and juvenile crime to homicide cases. As a Deputy Public Defender, he handled all aspects of each of his cases from arraignment to trial.