Boeing Airlines has sent out a second tweet on the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 that reportedly was lost somewhere over Vietnam air space heading to China overnight. The plane was a Boeing 777-200ER, according to reports. “Our team is assembled for technical assistance on MH370. Our thoughts remain with all on board & their families,” Boeing tweeted, as boats were rushing to try to find the plane in the South China Sea. Reuters news…
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew members is missing hours after it lost contact with air traffic control and a search-and-rescue effort is underway, officials are reporting. Flight MH370 was scheduled to land in Beijing at 6:30 a.m. Saturday after taking off from Malaysia’s capital of Kuala Lumpur, but it never arrived, media reports say. It departed at 12:41 a.m. and lost contact about two hours later, officials are reporting. Officials…
Kevin Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, and his seven brothers are referred to in the legal community as the “The Durkin Bunch”.
Time and again, the question has come up during this harsh Chicago winter as to whose responsibility it is to shovel the sidewalk in front of your home or business. In 2008, Robert Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, wrote a column on “To Shovel or Not to Shovel,” in the January issue of the Chicago Lawyer magazine. https://www.cliffordlaw.com/to-shovel-or-not-to-shovel-that-is-the-question/ With the near record breaking snow totals for the winter of 2013-14 and up to…
Keith Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) conference.
Now comes word that Michaels, the country’s largest arts and crafts store, apparently has experienced a credit card breach of its customers across its more than 1,200 stores. Michaels issued a statement that it “recently learned of possible fraudulent activity on some U.S. payment cards that had been used at Michaels, suggesting that the Company may have experienced a data security attack.” When will this ever come to an end? Retailers are aware that hackers…
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal (“Target Staff Had Warning,” Feb. 15-16, 2014), it was reported that Target Corp.’s computer security staff, “raised concerns about vulnerabilities in the retailer’s payment card system at least two months before hackers stole,” what turned into some 110 million credit and debit numbers of customers. Apparently memos were distributed last spring by the federal government and private research firms on the “emergence of new types of…
Clifford’s Notes, Chicago Lawyer March 1, 2014 By Robert A. Clifford The latest statistics continue to demonstrate the long-term trend that the number of medical-malpractice filings is down, yet the number of inquiries regarding negligence involving doctors and medical personnel is up. How does one reconcile this apparent paradox? It’s really because trial lawyers are accepting responsibility for fewer medical-malpractice cases. A major reason is that experts are required for causation involving every specialty of…
A Clifford Law Offices attorney delivers a successful closing argument in the Carroll County courthouse for the Whitebread-Pacas case. Read our previous post about this case.