James D. Spiros – Founding Partner
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One of the founding partners of Spiros Law, Jim is a skilled litigator with extensive experience handling cases involving medical negligence, workplace injuries, serious traffic and trucking accidents, nursing home neglect and abuse, and wrongful death.
Jim’s growing list of significant victories has earned Spiros Law a reputation as the go-to referral for injury and medical negligence cases in downstate Illinois.
In August of 2005, Jim secured the second highest jury verdict in Vermilion County history, with a $9.8 million verdict on behalf of an injured minor. In December 2009, he secured a $3.3 million settlement on behalf of a Vermilion County family against a Champaign County hospital. In January 2010, he secured the largest settlement ever reported in Ford County, Illinois, of $1.45 million. Other settlements have included: $1 million for the family of a motorcyclist killed in a vehicle accident and $1.4 million in a medical negligence case for improper administration of medication at a hospital.
Jim’s skill in the courtroom has earned him recognition by his peers throughout Illinois.
In 2004, he was named by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Publishing Company as one of the Leading Lawyers in the State of Illinois. Jim is also included in the exclusive Leading Lawyers listing, an honor extended only to lawyers who are most recommended by their peers in statewide surveys. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer, another listing of outstanding lawyers who attained high degrees of peer recognition and professional achievement. He is also a member of The Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an organization which consists of trial lawyers throughout the United States who have achieved verdicts, arbitration awards or settlements in the amount of one million dollars or more.
A member of the Illinois State Bar Association and the American Association for Justice,
Jim has been appointed to the Illinois Trial Lawyers Medical Negligence Committee since 1997. In June of 2008, he was elected to serve on the Board of Managers of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. Jim has been named among the Top 100 Trial Lawyers by The American Trial Lawyers Association. He was recognized by Crain’s Chicago Business in February 2008 as a Top Lawyer in Illinois for Personal Injury.
Jim is a member of the Bar Associations for Vermilion and Kankakee Counties.
Jim has been an author and guest lecturer for the Illinois Institute of Continuing Legal Education and The University of Illinois College of Law. He has written articles that have appeared in Tort Trends and Trial Magazine. His column, “Rights and Responsibilities,” is featured in Midwestern Family Magazine.
He earned an undergraduate degree at Purdue University, and a J.D. at The John Marshall School Law School in 1994. He is a former City Attorney for the City of Hoopeston. He is active in various conservation, civic, youth and sports organizations.
He and his wife, Stephanie, have two sons.
