Robert A. Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices of Chicago, serves as the Illinois State Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.  He was inducted in 2005 and is serving a three-year term.

    The House of Delegates is the policymaking body that makes recommendations to the ABA House of Governors on various issues that impact the 400,000-member national organization as well as practicing attorneys across the country.

    Clifford has been appointed a Member of the Committee on Issues of Concern to the Legal Profession, reporting to the House of Delegates.  He also serves as Chair of the Standing Committee on Strategic Communications.  He was selected to the Executive Committee of the Conference of State Delegates.

    Most recently, he has served as Chair of the Task Force on Hurricane Katrina as well as Chair of the Task Force on Terrorism and the Law.  He was elected Chair of the Section of Litigation, the ABA’s largest section with some 70,000 members in 2001-02.  He has served in numerous other positions for the ABA spanning the last 25 years.  View his curriculum vitae.

    Clifford is principal partner of Clifford Law Offices, a firm concentrating in personal injury and wrongful death litigation as well as whistleblowing and other complex commercial litigation matters.