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    WBAI’s 107th Annual Dinner
    Posted on August 24, 2021 To

    Clifford Law Offices Sponsors WBAI’s 107th Annual Dinner

    Clifford Law Offices is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ 107th Annual Dinner celebrating the installation of the 2021-2022 Officers and Directors. Sarah F. King, Partner at Clifford Law Offices will be installed as the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) Financial Secretary. She has been a long standing member of the WBAI and has served two prior terms on the Board of Directors. The event is Thursday,…

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    Posted on August 19, 2021 To

    Kevin P. Durkin Named 2022 Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in the Chicago Area for Product Liability Litigation

    CHICAGO, IL (August 2021) – Clifford Law Offices partner Kevin P. Durkin was recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2022 “Lawyer of the Year” for Product Liability Litigation in the Chicago area. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same…

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    Posted on August 19, 2021 To

    Sixteen Clifford Law Offices Lawyers Named to 2022 Best Lawyers List

    CHICAGO, IL (August 2021) – Sixteen lawyers from Clifford Law Offices have been included in the 2022 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Best Lawyers is universally regarded as a definitive guide to legal excellence, providing lists in more than 75 countries. Lawyers on The Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional expertise and undergo an authentication…

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    Posted on August 17, 2021 To

    Bob Clifford’s Advice in Trial Magazine to Celebrate the 75th-Anniversary of the AAJ

    The advice of Clifford Law Offices’ founding partner Bob Clifford titled, “Buttressing Your Rebuttal”, was revisited in Trial Magazine to celebrate the 75th-anniversary of the American Association of Justice®. Clifford’s original article ran in the Good Counsel column in August 1996 and discusses how to create an effective, offensive rebuttal that emphasizes the most powerful case components. He states that: “Your rebuttal is the last thing the jurors will hear before the judges give them…

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    Tracy Brammeier Pens Article Inviting Lawyers to Come Together
    Posted on August 10, 2021 To

    Tracy Brammeier Pens Article Inviting Lawyers to Come Together

    Tracy A. Brammeier, Chair of the CBA Young Lawyers Section (YLS) and associate lawyer at Clifford Law Offices, wrote an article titled, “It’s Time for the CBA to Come Together as a Legal Community” for the Chicago Bar Association’s July/August 2021 issue. In the article, Tracy addresses how the pandemic has changed the way the legal world works together in terms of now conducting conferences and hearings via videoconference (Zoom) instead of in person and…

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    Chicago Car Accident Lawyers
    Posted on August 9, 2021 To

    Chicago Car Accident Lawyers

    No two car crashes are the same, which can make for some complex litigation when it comes to filing a claim for damages. For starters, car accidents are rarely even accidents, despite their commonly used name. Someone is almost always at fault, even partially, and the possibility of negligent behavior usually needs to be investigated in the aftermath of a crash. At Clifford Law Offices, our Chicago car accident lawyers have decades of experience handling…

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    Returning to jury trials in the wake of covid - powder v osf
    Posted on August 5, 2021 To

    Sarah King and Keith Hebeisen Speak About the Return of Civil Jury Trials

    Sarah F. King and Keith A. Hebeisen, partners at Clifford Law Offices, spoke August 4th on “Returning to Jury Trials in the Wake of COVID-19: Powder v. OSF.” The law partners obtained a $1.1 million verdict on June 4 of this year in Rockford in a medical malpractice case, Powder v. OSF, that involved the death of a 75-year-old man following a negligent cardiac catheterization procedure performed at OSF St. Anthony Medical Center in 2017….

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    Families Come Together in Helping Another More Than 1,000 Miles Away
    Posted on August 3, 2021 To

    Families Come Together in Helping Another More Than 1,000 Miles Away

    The Pantoja and Aquilar families finally got to meet on August 3rd at noon at ASI, a non-profit organization on Chicago’s northwest side dedicated to providing home care services, employment, and training since 1975. The Pantoja family drove up from San Antonio, Texas, on what would have been their son’s 18th birthday to celebrate with a recipient family of some of the medical equipment that their son, Dylan, never got to use. Dylan died at…

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    Two Families Meet Tuesday, August 3rd for the First Time in Story of Giving
    Posted on August 2, 2021 To

    Two Families Meet Tuesday, August 3rd for the First Time in Story of Giving

    August 3 would have been Dylan Yadriel Cruz-Pantoja’s 18th birthday. He passed away the morning of Nov. 9, 2019. His family will be commemorating his wonderful life by donating a garage full of medical equipment to needy families in Chicago, particularly in the Hispanic community. When Dylan was born in Puerto Rico, he was given six months to live. They subsequently moved to San Antonio, Texas. Through the care of his loving family, Dylan instead…

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