The Marist High School Law Association is inviting alumni in the legal profession to a networking social. The networking event is hosted by Robert Clifford and Clifford Law Offices. The event will be held on Thursday, April 26, 2018, at Chicago Cut Steakhouse (300 N. LaSalle Street) from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Register by clicking here.
The 24th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy was held at DePaul University April 19-20 on “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?” For two days, two dozen academics, lawyers and medical professionals from around the country discussed the medical crisis in this country and alternate legal strategies that might encourage greater safety. DePaul University College of Law Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea addressed the group. Among the faculty members are medical professionals…
On April 18th, 2018, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) ordered that the CFM56 engines on all aircraft be inspected, expanding its original idea to spot check them, in the wake of the mid air engine incident involving a Southwest Airlines flight that killed a young mother and wife earlier this week. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices and an outspoken aviation attorney, said these inspections are long overdue considering incidents…
A top aviation attorney is now calling for the grounding of all Boeing 767 aircraft in the wake of the second uncontained engine failure (UEF) of a 17-year-old Southwest Airlines 767 in less than 20 months. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, represents a number of passengers injured in the fire after a similar UEF on an American Airlines 737 at O’Hare Airport in October, 2016, that forced…
A woman was killed on April 17, 2018 after a jet engine apparently exploded in mid-air and its shrapnel reportedly crashed through her window on a Southwest flight to Dallas. The incident forced the 767 Boeing aircraft, Flight 1380 that had taken off from New York, to emergency land in Philadelphia. Witnesses told the press that they saw the woman passenger being sucked out the broken window with fellow passengers trying to hold her in…
As the popularity of Uber increases, so does the problems associated with the ride-hailing company. Uber announced (April 12, 2018) that it will be conducting annual background checks on U.S. drivers, instead of just an initial check, as well as hire a company that will regularly monitor criminal arrests in an effort to keep riders safer. According to the website, 49 deaths, 92 assaults and 363 sexual assaults have been attributed to Uber and Lyft…
U.S. Congress has summoned current and former executives of pharmaceutical distributors to testify who are accused of contributing to the serious opioid crisis in this country and what role they and their companies play in the epidemic of prescription painkillers. The May 8 hearing, scheduled before a House Energy and Commerce Committee oversight panel, will put pharmaceutical executives under oath to explain why so many highly addictive pain pills are finding their way into several…
Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be the luncheon keynote speaker at the “Bet-the-Company” Mass Tort Litigation Conference in Chicago May 30. W. Mark Lanier, of The Lanier Law Firm in Houston, Texas, also is a featured keynote speaker. Sponsored by HarrisMartin, the all-day Multidistrict Litigation Conference will feature speakers on some very timely topics — “Facebook Breach – Is Anyone’s Data Safe?”, “Framing Jury Themes for Women’s Health…
The birth of a child certainly is one of the most significant events for a family, but all of those hopes are ruined for hundreds of people following two fertility clinics destroying frozen embryos when the liquid nitrogen tanks thawed in March. Imagine women with uterine cancer who counted on those stored embryos to be their only hope for a family. Or those aging women who paid medical professionals assuring them that they would be…