A stop sign was added at the beginning of May to a Chicago intersection on the city’s Northwest Side where a 22-year-old bicyclist was killed in a hit and run. Neighbors had been requesting action from the city to slow traffic and prevent bicycle crashes. As reported in a May 2022 article in The Chicago Tribune, the young bicyclist was killed after being struck by a car while riding in the Old Irving Park neighborhood…
Keith A. Hebeisen, partner of Clifford Law Offices, will be receiving the Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th Annual Convention of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA). A select ITLA committee selects a lawyer each year who has demonstrated “a substantial part of their life and their practice to ITLA, someone who has done more than is called for” in the name of Ring, a prominent trial attorney in Illinois until 1994…
Clifford Law Offices has been named a 2022 Elite Trial Lawyers Finalist by The National Law Journal in the category of Catastrophic Injury. The Elite Trial Lawyers awards recognize the exceptional work of law firms in a high-stakes bench or jury trial, or in a major settlement, and who perform advanced work on behalf of plaintiffs. Hundreds of entries from plaintiffs’ law firms across the United States were considered before making it to the competition’s…
Clifford Law Offices partner Joseph T. Murphy has been selected as a recipient of the Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar award, part of The National Law Journal’s 2022 Elite Trial Lawyers annual awards. This recognition goes to a “select group of young lawyers under age 40 who are up-and-comers in the plaintiffs bar.” Lawyers are nominated by peer review and recipients are recognized based on “demonstrated repeated success in cutting-edge work on behalf of…
“Litigating the Public Good: Punishing Serious Corporate Misconduct” is the topic of the 2022 28th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy June 2-3, 2022. To register for one or both days of the hybrid program, click here. Academics from around the country will gather for this two-day program to discuss the need for private litigation to confront corporate harms that cost human lives. Robert A. Clifford, founder, and senior partner of Clifford…
Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices and founder of Erin Clifford Wellness and Rockstar Doggy Momma, will wrap up the Illinois State Bar Association’s Wellness Series with a final presentation on Thursday, May 26. The program is part of a movement in the legal profession to acknowledge and remedy health and mental health concerns among lawyers and other law professionals stemming from stress, work fatigue, and an imbalanced lifestyle. Wellness Series – Part 3:…
Tracy Brammeier, attorney at Clifford Law Offices, spoke at The Chicago Bar Association’s Law Day Public Celebration at Daley Plaza, and awarded the Liberty Bell Award to a worthy recipient. The award is given each year during Law Week to a non-lawyer who has contributed to the administration of justice.
Jerry Blackwell, lead counsel in the litigation against Derek Chauvin in the George Floyd murder case in Minnesota, spoke to a large group of the Chicago Inn of Court Monday, May 2, at Faegre Drinker in downtown Chicago. In a fireside chat led by Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, Blackwell spoke of his advocacy techniques in that high-profile trial that led to the conviction of former police…
Robert A. Clifford has co-authored a chapter on aviation law for the Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fifth Edition. The Thomson Reuters law book, a distinguished library staple for litigators and a widely-recognized source, is a joint venture with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. Bob’s chapter on aviation litigation provides a resource that details the complexities of aviation laws and regulations and the subsequent processes to appropriately handle litigation derived from…