Education:

• University of Chicago, A.B., Economics
• University of California, Davis, School of Law, J.D.
• Senior Articles Editor, U.C. Davis Law Review

Memberships:

• State Bar of California
• Los Angeles County Bar Association
• Hellenic Law Society

Admitted in:

• California
• United States District Court for the Central, Northern, Southern and Eastern Districts of California
• Court of Federal Claims
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals

Dimitri Korovilas is a founding partner of Wucetich & Korovilas LLP and has been a litigator and trial attorney for nearly 20 years.  He focuses on complex civil litigation, with a particular emphasis on class action consumer and employment cases.

Mr. Korovilas earned his bachelor’s degree in economics, with honors, from the University of Chicago.  He received his jurisdoctor from the University of California, Davis, where he was elected by the faculty to the Order of the Coif, a national honorary scholastic society.  While in law school, Mr. Korovilas served as a senior editor on the U.C. Davis Law Review and authored a published law review article on constitutional law issues.  He also worked as an extern for the Honorable David F. Levi (ret.), the former chief judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California and then-chair of the Standing Committee on the Federal Rules of Practice and Procedure.  Mr. Korovilas also worked while in law school as a research assistant to law professor, Anupam Chander, and as a teaching assistant in the undergraduate political science department where he led discussion sections in a variety of introductory and upper-division classes.

Mr. Korovilas began his legal career by working for years in the Los Angeles office of a large, international firm.  There he represented major corporations in a variety of high profile litigation matters in the areas of consumer, employment, intellectual property, and general business law.

Mr. Korovilas co-founded Wucetich & Korovilas LLP in 2010 to focus on plaintiffs’ side class action litigation.  He has since secured over $300 million worth of relief in class action cases benefitting hundreds of thousands of consumers and employees in California and nationwide.  His work has been recognized nationally by Superlawyers magazine.  Mr. Korovilas’s practice in the consumer area is broad, and includes class action cases involving consumer privacy, data security breaches, fraud, false advertising, automatic renewal billing scams, illegal robocall and spam text marketing campaigns, antitrust, unfair competition, products liability, and other consumer protection related matters.  Mr. Korovilas’s class action employment practice generally concerns large scale wage and hour violations, independent contractor/employee misclassification, gender pay equity issues, WARN Act violations, and related employment law issues.  He is also admitted to practice before the Court of Federal Claims in Washington, D.C., and regularly represents classes of federal employees asserting claims against the government for improper pay practices.  Mr. Korovilas also has extensive experience in multi-district litigation and in appearing before the federal Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation.

In addition to his class action practice, Mr. Korovilas is well versed in representing individual plaintiffs and defendants in all types of commercial and business litigation, ranging from general breach of contract claims, to fraud, intellectual property disputes, and employment matters, as well as a broad variety of other business disputes.  Mr. Korovilas’s individual employment practice handles claims including wrongful termination, discrimination, hostile work environment, disability accommodation, sexual orientation discrimination, gender pay equity issues, wage and hour violations, as well as civil rights issues.  Throughout his career, he has appeared regularly before all courts in the State of California, at the both the trial and appellate levels, in both state and federal court, as well as throughout the country pro hac vice in a variety of matters.

Mr. Korovilas is also committed to pro bono work and has regularly represented indigent clients, charities, and other entities without compensation in a variety of matters.