In the law firms Veteran trial attorney Miguel A. Ruiz has joined Cogan & Power P.C. as a partner. Ruiz will represent victims of medical negligence, defective products, motor vehicle accidents and wrongful death. For more than two decades, he has been a member of the personal-injury defense bar. Ruiz is vice president of the Society of Trial Lawyers. He will assume the presidency in 2016. • The Abraham Lincoln Association presented the Lincoln the Lawyer Award to Urbana attorney Richard L. Thies at …