James B. Zouras

I am a founder and principal of Stephan Zouras, LLP, a Chicago-based law firm which concentrates in representing people in Illinois and throughout the United States in class, collective and individual wage and hour litigation, catastrophic personal injury, and other complex litigation. In my over 20 years of practice, I have been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in scores of complex wage and hour class and collective actions which have collectively resulted in a total recovery of more than $100 million for over 100,000 individuals. My published cases in the area of wage and hour employment law exceed 100 decisions from jurisdictions in at least 10 states. I have tried over a dozen major jury trials and appeared as lead counsel in at least 14 appeals in federal and state court. I was also named an Illinois "Super Lawyer" in every consecutive year since 2009, a distinction given to no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state.