James Spiros
Founding Partner | Spiros Law, P.C.
James Spiros is a medical malpractice, trucking accidents and wrongful death trial lawyer and founding partner at Spiros Law, P.C. in Champaign, Illinois. J.D., The John Marshall Law School (1994).
Meet James
James D. Spiros is the founding partner of Spiros Law, P.C., a downstate Illinois injury firm with offices including Champaign, Illinois. Over more than 30 years he has represented clients in medical negligence, defective drug and device, workplace injury, traffic and trucking, nursing home and wrongful death cases. He is president-elect of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association.
His results include a $40 million birth injury verdict in Coles County, which his firm reports as the highest medical malpractice verdict in Illinois outside Cook County, a $14 million motorcycle crash settlement involving a below-the-knee amputation and a $9.84 million verdict for an infant with serious head and retinal injuries in Vermilion County.
Spiros attended Purdue University and earned his law degree from The John Marshall Law School in 1994. He has been named a Leading Lawyer by the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin since 2004, has lectured for the Illinois Institute for Continuing Legal Education and the University of Illinois College of Law and has written for Trial magazine. He and his wife, Stephanie, have two sons.
Experience and Expertise
Qualifications
Timeline
- J.D., The John Marshall Law School, 1994
- Undergraduate degree, Purdue University
- Illinois Bar
Practice Areas
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (President-Elect, 2026-2027)
- American Association for Justice
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Vermilion County Bar Association
- Kankakee County Bar Association
- Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Leading Lawyers, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, 2004–present
- Chicago Daily Law Bulletin Advisory Board Member, 2019
- Super Lawyers, 2018
- $40 Million Verdict: Birth injury jury verdict in Coles County, Illinois, reported as the highest medical malpractice verdict in Illinois outside Cook County.
- $14 Million Settlement: Motorcycle crash settlement for a client who suffered a below-the-knee amputation, the largest such resolution in Central Illinois.
- $9,842,900 Verdict: Verdict for an 11-month-old boy with serious head and retinal injuries, the second-largest verdict in Vermilion County history.
- $4.9 Million Recovery: Recovery for the family of a young woman killed by an impaired truck driver for a national retail chain.
- $4.85 Million Verdict: Jury verdict in a Vermilion County medical malpractice case in 2019.
- $3.3 Million Settlement: Settlement for a Vermilion County family against a Champaign County hospital.
- $2.25 Million Settlement: Motorcycle collision case in Edgar County.
- $2 Million Settlement: Wrongful death case arising from a collision on I-57 in Kankakee.
- $1.45 Million Verdict: Car crash verdict for a woman with severe spinal and shoulder injuries, the largest recorded in Ford County.
- $1.4 Million Settlement: Medical negligence settlement for improperly administered medication that caused reflex sympathetic dystrophy, the largest RSD settlement in Champaign County.
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