Rafael A. Vargas, Special Counsel
Email: rvargas@futtermanhoward.com
PRACTICE FOCUS
Civil rights
Education equity
BAR ADMISSIONS
Illinois
PRACTICE HIGHLIGHTS
Rafael has wide-ranging experience in litigating individual and class action consumer protection and securities cases representing plaintiffs, such as investors, employees, small businesses, and consumers, in complex class actions and other cases involving fraud, antitrust, wage/hour issues and consumers’ rights
LEGAL CAREER
Advocate, Workers’ rights, organizing workers
Campaign Worker, Various campaigns and initiatives to empower immigrant day laborers in Illinois
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Board Member, High Jump Auxiliary Board (2005 – present)
Board of Directors, Lambda Theta Phi Foundation
Board of Advisors, Archdiocese of Chicago
Chair, Development Committee for the Hispanic Advisory Committee of the Archdiocese
EDUCATION
J. D., with honors, Chicago Kent College of Law (2007)
B. A., with highest honors, in Political Science, DePaul University (2004)