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    Attorney Robert Clifford Named One of Most Powerful Chicagoans

    This past March, Robert A. Clifford was recognized as one of Chicago Magazine’s Top 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans for 2014. The third annual “The Power 100″ list ranks based on influence, ability, and clout; Clifford placed #76. This recognition appeared in the March 2014 issue of Chicago Magazine and marks the second time in a row he has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful Chicagoans. According to Chicago Magazine, in order to be…

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    Robert Clifford to Receive the 2014 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Seventh Circuit

    April 30, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will receive the 2014 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Seventh Circuit. Clifford, who was President of the Chicago Inn of Court from 1994-95, will be presented with the award at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Chicago on May 12. He was selected from a national panel of members of the American Inns of Court Awards Committee that included Justices…

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    Posted on April 29, 2014 To

    Senators Request Department of Transportation to Force GM’s Hand

    Democratic Senators Edward Markey (MA) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) urged the Department of Transportation to take action to ensure that owners of the estimated 2.6 million recalled GM models to cease driving them until they are repaired, according to Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who has been investigating the failure of GM to take action to combat the defects, has authority to pursue recalls of vehicles deemed as unsafe, but they cannot force…

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    Conversation with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the U.S. for the Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy

    Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke with DePaul University College of Law Professor  Stephan Landsman on “Judge Jack Weinstein’s Impact on Civil Justice in America” for the 20th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy. Professor Landsman also serves as the Faculty Chair of the Symposium that was founded by Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago. Some two dozen judges and academics from around the country gathered for two…

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    Sarah King Writes for the ABA Litigation Journal

    Sarah King, of Clifford Law Offices, contributed to the Summer 2013 issue of the popular American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Journal that is distributed to more than 60,000 lawyers across the country. An associate at the firm, Sarah wrote an article entitled “A Storyteller’s Apprentice” where she describes her preparing a case for trial under the mentoring of partner Keith Hebeisen at the firm. In it she explains the importance of telling the jury a…

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    Pam Menaker Writes Article for Litigation News on Attorney-Client Privilege Case in Delaware

    Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor of the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation News, authored an article on the issue of attorney-client privilege in a business merger. “Attorney-Client Privilege Passes to Acquiring Company in Merger” appeared in the March issue of Litigation News that is disseminated to the 60,000+ members of the ABA Section of Litigation. The article surrounds the case of Great Hill Equity Partners IV v. SIG…

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    Bob Clifford Testifies Before City Council Licensing Committee on UberX and Other Ride Sharing Vehicles

    Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, testified Thursday (April 24, 2014) before the Licensing Committee of the Chicago City Council on its proposal to regulate ride sharing in the city. Safety of consumers was the underlying theme of the hearing. An ordinance is being considered that would require ride sharing companies to keep better track of its drivers, require testing of the drivers and the vehicles as well as pay taxes to…

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    Clifford Tort Symposium Marks 20 Years

    Some two dozen judges and academics from around the country gathered in Chicago April 24-25 for the 20th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy that was marked by a taped conversation with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Faculty Chair of the Symposium DePaul University College of Law Professor Stephan Landsman. The subject of the two-day program that offered 9.75 hours of continuing legal education…

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    National Press Covers the Settlement of Five Colgan Crash Cases of Clifford Law Offices

    As reported by Associated Press, the remaining seven federal court cases involving the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that killed 50 people near Buffalo, New York, five years ago have settled in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthey. Robert A. Clifford and Kevin P. Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices, were set to try five of seven of these cases at the end of May. They settled for a confidential amount….

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