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Six countries, including the United States, are part of the international search team for the missing Boeing 777-200 airliner that reportedly disappeared Saturday morning over the Gulf of Thailand with 239 passengers aboard. The plane reportedly was flying at about 35,000 feet in non-threatening weather. As air and water search crews scour the Gulf as well as the South China Sea, the issue of two passengers boarding Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 has emerged in media…

After a Malaysia Airlines commercial jet has been missing for hours, air and water search crews from several countries were dispatched and reportedly a Vietnamese government statement was issued that said it has spotted two large oil slicks in the South China Sea. The Washington Post released a story that said Vietnamese air force planes spotted the two large oil slicks off the southern tip of its country. It quoted Associated Press reports that these…

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…