Bob Clifford will receive the Unity Award at the 2017 Unity Award Dinner & 15th Swearing-In of Bar Presidents Ceremony. The ceremony is presented by the Diversity Scholarship Foundation, NFP, and The John Marshall Law School. It will be held on November 29th, 2017, with the reception starting at 5 p.m., following by dinner and program at 6 p.m. The event will be held at the Hilton in Chicago, IL. Hon. Abner J. Mikva, posthumous,…
Clifford Law Offices has been ranked in the 2018 U.S. News – Best Lawyers® “Best Law Firms” list nationally in one practice area and regionally in five practice areas. Clifford Law Offices received the following rankings in the 2018 U.S. News – Best Lawyers “Best Law Firms”: National Tier 2 Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs National Tier 3 Regional Tier 1 Chicago Commercial Litigation Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs…
Clifford Law Offices is sponsoring Lawyers for Puerto Rico: A Bar Social. All proceeds will benefit the Hurricane Relief Fund of The Puerto Rican Agenda. It will be held on Tuesday, November 28th, 2017, from 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. CST at the Chicago Bar Association in Chicago. The social event is presented by CBA and PRBA, and will consist of live music, drinks, and appetizers, and will feature special guest Pedro Soler, Esq. Ticket…
Shannon M. McNulty, partner at Clifford Law Offices and head of the class action practice at the firm, spoke on the panel, “Facing the Ransonware Menace: Cyber Blackmail Conference.” The conference was held at McDermott Will & Emery in Chicago and included David A. Glockner, Director of the Chicago Regional Office of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; Eric Shiffman, the Supervisory Special Agent of the Cyber Division of the FBI in Chicago; Christopher Veatch,…
Bob Clifford wrote a piece for Chicago Lawyer on the Illinois Appellate Court recognizing a tort called complicated grief. Clifford explains the court’s distinctions in allowing certain plaintiffs to allege this new cause of action in the state. To read the article, click here.
Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, is among 20 lawyers speaking at the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG) seminar on complex trucking accident trials. “Trucking: Taking it to Trial: Preparing, Presenting and Winning Your Case” will be held Nov. 9-10 at the Chicago Intercontinental Hotel, 505 N. Michigan Av. Clifford will be speaking on Opening Statements. The event is open to plaintiff attorneys only. To find more information…
Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be moderating a panel of judges offering a courtroom perspective on various issues in an all-afternoon program Nov. 20. Clifford will be moderating a program, “Tales from the Bench: Judges Reflect on Attorney Behavior,” with the Hon. Elizabeth Budzinski, Hon. Thomas More Donnelly and Hon. James Varga, all of the Law Division on the panel. More than two dozen judges, including the Hon….
Robert A. Clifford, nationally renowned trial attorney in Chicago, spoke to the Las Vegas Review-Journal about the injured security guard who is being housed by the Mandalay Bay hotel following the Oct. 1 shooting at a country music festival. Investigators reportedly are investigating the knowledge of hotel executives and security staff after a security guard on the hotel premises reportedly was shot in the leg by the gunman that killed 58 and injured another 489…
Robert A. Clifford is a proud supporter of the Civil Justice Research Institute at the University Of California, Irvine School of Law. Bob is one of the founders of the Institute. The Civil Justice Research Institute explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief.