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In what has been called a “nightmare,” Virgin Atlantic airlines passengers heading from Orlando, Florida, to London, England, were on board a plane that then sat on the tarmac for two hours in sweltering heat before it was canceled earlier this month. It was reported that the air conditioning on the aircraft, loaded with families and children, had failed. Temperatures in the plane were so high that passengers were collapsing and some were vomiting before…

Robert P. Walsh, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on “Liens” at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Update and Review Seminar in Chicago Oct. 12. Walsh, who has handled thousand of vehicular accident cases in his legal career spanning 40 years, will be speaking at the half-day seminar held at the Westin Chicago River North, 320 N. Dearborn. Other topics include, “Using Technology in the Courtroom,” “Sex Abuse/Churches and Schools,” and “Working with…

Robert A. Clifford took part in a taping for a video being produced to mark the 200th birthday of the Illinois Supreme Court. The video, currently under production, will be shown at the American Judges Association/Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts joint conference in September. It also will be shown Oct. 9 in Springfield at the bicentennial celebration gala in Springfield. The video focuses on the work of the Illinois Supreme Court Historical Preservation Commission…

Nine attorneys from Clifford Law Offices have been recognized in the 2019 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America list. Robert A. Clifford – Commercial Litigation, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs, Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Plaintiffs, Product Liability Litigation – Plaintiffs, Qui Tam Law Richard F. Burke – Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs Bradley M. Cosgrove – Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs Kevin P. Durkin – Personal Injury Litigation – Plaintiffs,…

Robert A. Clifford was recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2019 “Lawyer of the Year” for Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Plaintiffs in the Chicago area. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments. According to Best Lawyers, “Lawyer of the Year”…

Robert A. Clifford, Chair of the Council of the American Bar Association (ABA) Fund for Justice and Education (FJE), addressed a crowd Sunday evening at the ABA’s Annual Meeting in Chicago. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, thanked those who support this charitable arm of the ABA because the funds go to needy causes — from providing legal services following Hurricanes Harvey and Maria, to helping immigrant children dislocated from their parents…

Observers are saying it was nothing short of a miracle when all 103 aboard an Aeromexico flight survived the crash of Flight AM2431 Tuesday, July 31, 2018. Investigators have located the black boxes of the jet that was flying from Guadalupe Victoria International Airport in Durango to Mexico City when it crashed in stormy weather about 4 p.m. Mexico time. All aboard the Embraer 190 jetliner were able to escape, some with very serious injuries,…

USA Today reported on how “Hospitals know how to protect mothers. They just aren’t doing it” in a weekend story entitled “Deadly Deliveries.” In a cover story of July 27-29, 2018, reporter Alison Young and a team of contributors wrote of how they examined more than half-million pages of internal hospital quality records obtained through federally funded programs and the deliveries of 150 women at hospitals where “deliveries went terribly wrong.” Their findings resulted in…

Several major publications are reporting that court records indicate that the deadly duck boats were designed decades ago by a businessman who had no engineering experience. The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times and USA Today are among those reporting that the designer and entrepreneur, Robert F. McDowell, had completed only two years of college and “had no background, training or certification in mechanics when he came up with the design for ‘stretch’ duck…