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Uber’s program of self-driving cars in several cities across the U.S. has resulted in the tragic death Sunday, March 18, 2018, of a pedestrian on a street in Tempe, Arizona, the first death in the U.S. involving self-driving vehicles. Uber released a statement that it was pausing its self-driving car operations in Phoenix, Pittsburgh, San Francisco and Toronto. This incident follows the temporary suspension of all self-driving vehicles in Arizona last year following a crash…

Robert A. Clifford and Clifford Law Offices are hosting DePaul University President Dr. A. Gabriel Esteban at a reception in his honor on March 28, 2018, from 6-8 p.m. at the Chicago Bar Association. A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, is the 12th president of DePaul University, the nation’s largest Catholic university. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 2017, as the first lay leader in DePaul’s history. He most recently served as President of Seton Hall…

On Feb. 27th, 27 women, including Clifford Law Offices Associate Sarah King, traveled to the Illinois State Capitol for the first-ever Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Women’s Caucus Lobbying Day. When Sarah F. King and several other female members of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association started discussing forming a women’s caucus for the organization last summer, they inquired about how many women attorneys actually belonged to ITLA. As per the article in the Chicago Law…

Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices and Vice Chair of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Women’s Caucus, has been invited to speak at its annual Trial Practice & Tips Seminar Friday, May 4. King, who was part of the planning committee for the event that is co-sponsored by the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois, will be speaking on “Jury Selection.” King has tried many cases to verdict particularly in the area of medical…

Hospital executives have to learn to reduce healthcare costs while improving healthcare outcomes because the measure of their success will be defined by the latter in the years to come. That’s according to a recent study of more than 300 hospital executives across the country. The four-month study that ended in January, 2017, was conducted by Willow Research and concluded that the “seismic shift in healthcare” includes the fact that individual patients are becoming the…

Some disturbing new details have emerged as authorities examine the cause of a bridge that collapse over an eight-lane highway less than a week after it was put in place, killing six people near Miami, Florida. NBC News and other media outlets are reporting that cracks were found on the bridge days before the collapse of the 950-ton bridge was an overpass for students to walk from Florida International University to nearby Sweetwater, Florida. And…

Horrific scenes of a bridge collapse at Florida International University (FIU) tells the story of at least four people killed today (March 15, 2018) beneath the tons of concrete and twisted metal, according to authorities at the scene in Miami, Florida. In what is being described as an “instant bridge” that was completed less than a week ago, now comes news that the bridge at an overpass at the college outside Miami collapsed Thursday afternoon,…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, and Tinos Diamantatos of Morgan Lewis took on their two legal “rivals,” Patrick Fitzgerald and Patrick Collins in the mock trial of Megacles, leader of Athens sponsored by the National Hellenic Museum (NHM) on March 1, 2018. The Honorable William Joseph Bauer, Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, served as Chief Judge. He said in…

Robert A. Clifford co-authored a chapter on aviation for the Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, 4th Edition. Columbus Bar Lawyer Quarterly wrote a review mentioning the aviation chapter Clifford co-authored. “The Aviation chapter will introduce litigators to the complexities of aviation laws and regulations, assure attorneys that they can admit they are unable to give crash survivors and/or family members adequate counsel, and explain the investigative process of the NTSB and the litigation processes…