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More than 900 family members and friends from across the world who lost loved ones in the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX jet (Flight ET302) in Ethiopia have signed a letter demanding that President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg replace FAA Administrator Steven Dickson, Safety Director Ali Bahrami and other top leadership at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The letter including the signatories and to whom it was sent is…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will become the 2021-22 Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) Financial Secretary June 1 for a one-year term. The new officers will be officially installed at a virtual event June 17. King, who has been active with the WBAI for years, also serves on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors and has been very active with Women Everywhere, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating opportunities…

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law offices and holistic wellness coach, is leading an online seminar for the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA) on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 12pm Central. The webinar is complimentary to NWSBA Members and will focus on lawyer well-being. The goal of Well-Being Week in Law is to raise awareness about mental health and to encourage action and innovation across the profession to improve well-being. When our professional and organizational…

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices, co-hosted the 2021 Virtual Lawyers Lend-A-Hand Spring Awards Celebration, “Heroes at Work,” that honored Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, recipient of the Marovitz Philanthropic Award, for his decades-long work with the Jesse White Tumblers that helps youth across the city. The event, which raised more than $80,000 for programs helping mentor and tutor Chicago area disadvantaged children, also gave the inaugural My Hero Award to Daniel A….

May 3-7 2021 is Well-Being Week in Law. This week is designed to bring awareness to the value of leading a balanced, healthy lifestyle for those in the legal profession. Most lawyers are 100% dedicated to their practice, and while this serves clients well, other areas – such as physical and mental health – may be neglected. With a little work – and we know lawyers are great at putting in the work – it…

Clifford Law Offices filed more lawsuits in Illinois against United Airlines including on behalf of a couple who sat on the right-hand side of the plane when the airplane’s engine caught fire, forcing the aircraft to return to Denver on Feb. 20, 2021. UA Flight 328, a Boeing 777-222, was en route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff the right engine failed and was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced to turn back to…

Clifford Law Offices filed four more lawsuits in Illinois against United Airlines on behalf of passengers from various states who are suffering significant emotional trauma and distress stemming from a flight that experienced a fiery engine loss while traveling from Denver to Hawaii on Feb. 20, 2021. UA Flight 328, a Boeing 777-200, was en route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff the right engine failed and was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced…

Founder and Senior Partner Robert A. Clifford of Clifford Law Offices, wrote an article titled, “Follow the Money” for Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s April/May 2021 edition. In the article, Bob writes about how addiction to prescribed pain medications, or opioids, has risen dramatically in the past two decades with over 400,000 people across the nation dying from the opioid epidemic. Last May, the Clifford Tort Symposium brought together the best academic minds to “discuss the various…

The reaction was swift to the April 20, 2021 action by the Boeing Board of Directors that raised the minimum mandatory retirement age for executives from 64 to 70. The current CEO Dave Calhoun turned 64 this week. He became CEO in January 2020, about halfway through the nearly two-year grounding of the 737 MAX following two crashes that took the lives of 346 people. Michael Stumo, father of Samya Rose Stumo who was killed…