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Ted McNabola is a leading personal injury lawyer in Chicago and the founder of McNabola & Associates. He has spent over two decades advocating on behalf of injury victims across the state. He was recognized as Super Lawyers® “Top 100 Attorneys in Illinois” because of his success. Over the last 25 years, he has won 97% of all cases he has accepted and over 90% of trial cases he has contested. Recently, many of his cases resulted in verdicts that added up to over $75 million. Attorney McNabola graduated from Miami University of Ohio with his B.A. and Loyola University Chicago School of Law with his J.D.

Ms. Baltabols obtained her J.D. from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 2009. Mara is an accomplished consumer lawyer with a wide-range of experience litigating in state and federal court. Mara was named a Super Lawyers Rising Star for civil defense litigation in 2013, and for consumer law in 2016-2018. She was a key attorney in the Hammer v. Residential Credit Solutions, Inc. (2013-cv-06397)jury trial against a major mortgage servicer that resulted in a $2,000,000 verdict upheld on post-trial motions. Mara has a been a featured speaker at the NACBA’s 23rd Annual Convention 2015 discussing effective adversary proceedings and taking your best cases to trial. Mara's focus area is now class actions.

Jamie Franklin is the Director of the Civil Litigation Clinic at Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she is a Clinical Professor of Law. Jamie is an advocate for employees, consumers, and other plaintiffs whose rights have been denied. She is dedicated to providing the highest level of legal representation to her clients in cases involving employment discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour law, whistleblower actions, consumer law, class actions, and other complex litigation.

Jack Lydon concentrates his practice in commercial litigation in state and federal courts.  He principally represents financial institutions, mortgage lenders, businesses and individuals in litigation including operations, class action defense, mortgage repurchase, consumer protection, TILA, RESPA, FCRA, ECOA, fair housing, collection, regulatory and probate matters. He also represents various not-for-profit corporations.. Jack is a member of the Chicago Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association and served as the law to clerk the late Hon. Arthur L. Dunne in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois. Jack lives in Chicago’s Ravenswood Community and is active in a number of community organizations. He is the past president and director of the Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club. He is a director of the Ravenswood Lake View Historical Association and members of the Irish Fellowship Club of Chicago, Chicago’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade Committee and the Irish American Heritage Center.

I represent multinational companies in litigation, arbitration and administrative proceedings in a wide variety of substantive areas and industries, proactively counseling clients on risk management and pre-litigation dispute resolution.

I focus my practice on trials involving complex business litigation matters, including: Toxic torts Product liability Class actions Commercial litigationI am responsible for coordinating and defending national mass tort litigation on behalf of a number of companies in jurisdictions such as Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Texas, California, New York, New Jersey, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Massachusetts, Oregon, Washington and the U.S. Virgin Islands. As a trial lawyer, I have obtained favorable jury verdicts on behalf of my clients in multi-million dollar litigation.

I am a founding partner of Stephan Zouras, LLP.  I represent people from all walks of life in class and individual civil litigation. Specifically, I've helped thousands of clients recover damages in cases involving unpaid overtime, employment disputes, business litigation, products liability and personal injury. I have successfully tried cases to verdict including obtaining a $9,000,000 verdict on behalf of 200 employees who were misclassified and denied overtime pay.. I have served as lead or co-lead counsel on numerous complex class and collective action cases involving wage and hour matters and have helped recover damages for tens of thousands of wronged employees. In these cases, I helped establish precedent in wage and hour law, forced major corporations to change unlawful employment practices and helped recover tens of millions of dollars in unpaid wages for clients.  I have also led cases that have been featured on Good Morning America, Fortune, ESPN, Fox News, The Guardian, The New York Times, Think Progress, USA Today and Vice Sports.. In addition, for the past six years, I have been recognized by Chicago Magazine’s Super Lawyer Section as a a Rising Star and Super Lawyer, a distinction given to no more than 5% of Illinois lawyers.

I am a founder and principal of Stephan Zouras, LLC, a Chicago-based law firm concentrating in representing people throughout the United States in class and collective wage and hour litigation, biometric privacy, data privacy and cybersecurity rights, consumer fraud, catastrophic personal injury, and other complex litigation.. During my 28 years of practice, I have been appointed lead or co-lead counsel in more than 100 complex wage and hour class and collective actions which have collectively resulted in a recovery of more than $500 million for hundreds of thousands of individuals nationwide. My published cases exceed 250 decisions from jurisdictions in at least 14 states. I have tried over a dozen major jury trials on behalf of plaintiffs and argued as lead counsel in at least 20 appeals in federal and state courts, including four before the Illinois Supreme Court. In addition to my admission to numerous trial and appellate courts, I am a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States.. I am frequently invited as a speaker at national class action litigation and trial seminars, have testified before legislative bodies, and worked on legislation designed to protect worker rights.. I have been 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.. I serve as co-chair of the Consumer Privacy Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA).. In 2023, the Illinois Bar Foundation recently honored me and my firm with its Champion Award, which is given each year to an attorney “whose professional and public careers set an example to which others aspire.”. Also, I regularly mentor younger and aspiring law students.

Christopher T. Sheean is a partner at Swanson, Martin & Bell, LLP. Chris represents national and international corporations in various types of commercial, intellectual property and products liability litigation matters throughout the United States. His intellectual property practice involves issues of trademark and trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement, unfair competition and advertising injury claims. Chris is currently national counsel for a sporting goods manufacturer in all products liability claims.  He also handles a broad spectrum of general corporate disputes including complex breach of contract claims and multidistrict consumer class actions. As the lead trial lawyer in many cases, Chris has successfully litigated often complex and cutting-edge commercial and intellectual property claims in both federal and state courts. In addition, Chris has represented companies and government agencies in various aspects in bankruptcy proceedings including the defense of preference claims, the pursuit of claims against the estate and the purchase of assets from the estate. His business oriented approach to all litigation frequently results in both a favorable and a cost-effective outcome for the client. Chris currently serves as an adjunct professor of trial advocacy at Northwestern University School of Law. He has AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell since 2002.

Aaron Zigler is the founding member of the Zigler Law Group. He has extensive experience in high-stakes litigation against some of the largest corporations. He has handled all aspects of litigation, won contested class certification motions and dispositive motions, taken extensive discovery and negotiated substantial settlements. His efforts have led to the resolution of numerous class action cases on behalf of millions of consumers.. Aaron represents consumers, whistleblowers and businesses as plaintiffs in high-stakes litigation concerning computer technology, internet privacy, insurance, pharmaceuticals and other matters. He practices in federal courts throughout the Country and is licensed to practice law in the State Courts of Illinois, Missouri, California and New York.. Aaron has received the recognition of his peers through a Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent peer rating and multi-year selection as a Super Lawyers “Rising Star.” Aaron has also been honored as a finalist for Public Citizen’s Trial Lawyer of the Year award. He is a member of the American Society of Legal Writers.. Prior to founding Zigler Law Group, Aaron was a partner at Keller Lenkner where he managed its class action group and supported its mass arbitration practice, and Korein Tillery, where he managed all aspects of high-stakes litigation for nearly two decades.. Prior to his legal career, Aaron worked as a project manager in computer security for a Fortune 500 company. He continued that interest by concentrating his legal studies and research in computer technology. That experience and study have proved invaluable as Aaron has pursued numerous cases concerning the abuse of computer technology.