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The 20th Annual Clifford Symposium will feature a special address by Associate Justice Stephen G. Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States at DePaul University College of Law. The two-day program, April 24-25, is entitled “Judge Jack Weinstein’s Impact on Civil Justice in America.” Judge Weinstein is a federal judge in the Eastern District of New York. He was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson in 1967 and has authored numerous significant opinions on…

Clifford’s Notes, Chicago Lawyer September 11, 2013 By Robert A. Clifford Sylvia Lee Moore was exiting a Chicago Park District facility after her senior water aerobics class on Jan. 23, 2006. Three days earlier, 2 inches of snow fell and the district workers plowed the parking lot several times, including shoveling the sidewalks by pushing the snow to the curb. As Moore headed to her car in the lot, she found it was blocked by…

September 10, 2013 Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2013), at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Tort Litigation Committee meeting on “Corporate Medicine and Hospital Liability.” She will be discussing the trends of the law of agency and practical considerations for litigating cases involving corporate medical entities as well as hospital liability. King, who focuses her practice on plaintiffs’ medical malpractice law, recently was published in the…

Class Action Inquiry Form Clifford Law Offices filed a class action lawsuit against Advocate Medical Group for its negligence in the mishandling of important patient information and privacy issues on behalf of more than four million people. The case was filed as a class action lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court in Chicago. If you have been affected by this mishandling of your information and want to join the legal action, please click here to…

Clifford Law Offices filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a mother and her daughter whose privacy and medical information, along with millions of others, was compromised as a result of Advocate Medical Group failing to take proper precautions to protect private data of its patients. Advocate Medical Group, based in Downers Grove, said that its administrative offices in Park Ridge were burglarized in July and four computers were taken containing patients’ names, addresses,…

September 6, 2013 Clifford Law Offices, a nationally recognized personal injury law firm, filed Thursday (Sept. 5, 2013) a class action lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of millions of patients whose privacy and medical information were compromised by the alleged theft of four computers at an administrative office in July. The Chicago law firm brought the action on behalf of a mother and her daughter of suburban Northbrook who were patients of…

By Andrew Maloney Law Bulletin staff writer Robert A. Clifford didn’t set out to alter the Illinois legal landscape over dinner in Buffalo, N.Y., last year. That’s just what happened. After a long day in court just before Thanksgiving, Clifford was dining at the upscale Buffalo Club with colleagues from his trial team, sharing notes and ideas in the crash case of Colgan Air Flight 3407, the Feb. 12, 2009, accident that killed 50 people…

National Movement Targets Distracted Driving End DD was started in memory of Casey Feldman, a 21-year-old college student killed by a distracted driver. Casey’s story inspired hundreds of trial lawyers to fan out and speak to more than 75,000 teens (and counting) about how they can help end distracted driving. Call us today to speak with our team of Chicago car accident attorneys.

Women Spread Word About Problems With Essure Women who suffer serious complications from an implantable birth-control device called Essure want others to think twice before undergoing the procedure. So they launched a Facebook page, YouTube channel, website and enlisted Erin Brockovich to tell their stories.