On December 30, 2008, the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois granted Plaintiffs' motion and certified a class of several hundred technicians and installers who worked for Direct Sat USA, but were not properly paid overtime.  The class includes all individuals who were employed by DirectSat as service technicians or production technicians in Illinois since December 3, 2006.  For more information, please call us at (312) 233-1550.

On November 4, 2008, employees of Total Finance, LLC filed a lawsuit against the company claiming they were not paid for all hours worked, including unpaid overtime.  Plaintiffs allege that Total Finance deprived them of time and a half pay for overtime and required them to perform unpaid work off the clock.  If you would like more information, please contact us at (312) 233-1550.

On October 30, 2008, the Court issued an order conditionally certifying our case against Fill-Ups Food Stores, a Southeast Regional convenience store chain.  The case is brought on behalf of current and former Assistant Store Managers who were denied overtime compensation for all hours worked in excess of 40 in any workweek.  The Court authorized us to send notice to everyone eligible to join, which is estimated to consist of several hundred individuals.  For more information, please call us at (312) 233-1550.

Over 250 current and former loan officers of Lend America have joined our case to assert their rights to unpaid overtime and minimum wages.  On August 13, 2008, the Court conditionally certified our case, ordered Lend America to provide us with a list of current and former loan officers who are eligible to join and authorized us to send notice to these individuals.  For more information, please call us at (312) 233-1550.

On October 22, 2008, the Court granted our motion to conditionally certify our case against The Collection Clothing Management, a clothing retailer with approximately 15 stores in Illinois.  The case is brought on behalf of current and former sales representatives who seek unpaid back overtime compensation.  The Court ordered The Collection Clothing Management to provide us with a list of current and former sales representatives who are eligible to join the case and authorized us to send notice of the case to these individuals.  For more information, please call us at (312) 233-1550.

Jim Zouras was an invited speaker at the Chicago Bar Association where he discussed handling complex wage and hour litigation against large law firms and corporations.

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