A partner since 1978, Pike Powers is Of Counsel in Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.'s Austin office. Mr. Powers was Executive Assistant to Governor Mark White in 1983 and from 1972 to 1979 represented Jefferson County in the Texas House of Representatives. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal and political issues before state courts and federal courts, as well as federal and state agencies.

Mr. Powers has been a member of the Board of Directors of the State Bar of Texas and has held various posts as well in the American Bar Association and in the Texas and American Bar Foundations. He is a former chairman of the Board of the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Powers is a member of the Maritime Law Association of the United States, the Federation of Insurance and Corporate Counsel and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel.

He was named a "Texas Super Lawyer" in General Litigation law in the November 2003 issue of Law & Politics; and honored in The Best Lawyers in America in Administrative Law, Commercial Litigation, Government Relations Law in 2010.

Mr. Powers received a B.A. in 1962 from Lamar University and a J.D. in 1965 from The University of Texas. He was admitted in 1965 to practice law in Texas.