JANET L.S. POWERS, Esq. has been a member of the California State Bar since 1985. She is a shareholder in the Fiore Racobs & Powers Irvine office. Ms. Powers received her preparatory education at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in English. She earned her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree at Southwestern University School of Law.
Ms. Powers is a member of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) and CAI's prestigious College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAL) where she served on the Editorial Board of the CCAL Journal of Community Association Law. She was the President of the Board of Directors of the Orange County Regional Chapter of CAI in 2001. She has also served on all of the Chapter Committees, and is past chair of the Programs, Finance, Education, and Media committees. Ms. Powers has received several Chapter awards, including the Chapter's highest award, the May Russell Award, for her service to the Chapter in 2002, the President’s award in 2003, the Ellen Ellish Hall of Fame Award in 2005, and the Chapter Appreciation Award in 2013.
Ms. Powers is a long-standing member of the faculty for the California Association of Community Managers (CACM) and teaches many of its certification courses. She is also an editor of the CACM course materials on Community Association Meetings and Records and Parliamentary Procedure. She served on the Steering Committee of the Legal Advisory Committee of CACM for over 12 years. She was the co-chairperson of the CACM Law Seminars for 1995, 1996 and 2008 and has been a speaker at many of CACM's Law Seminars.
Ms. Powers was a member of the faculty for the CAI National Conference and CAI Law Seminars. She has been a faculty member of the California Continuing Education of the Bar programs on Homeowner Association Law. She frequently acts as an expert witness on the subject of community association law. She also writes and lectures on community association law at both the local and national level.
