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It’s that time of year when parents head to the stores (or more likely in 2020, go online) to find and purchase the toys their children want this holiday season. It’s also the time of year when safety groups release their annual “most dangerous toys” lists as a reminder to parents to research an item’s potential hazards before clicking the “buy now” button. About 240,000 children are treated at hospital emergency rooms for toy-related injuries each year…

There is perhaps no other type of passenger vehicle crash more frightening or devastating than an aviation accident. From the Tenerife Airport Disaster in 1977 to the recent Boeing 737 Max8 crash in Ethiopia, aviation accidents are more often than not catastrophic and devastating for more than just the people on the plane. And while the total number of aviation accidents has decreased since the 1980s, when they happen, the results are utterly detrimental. What…

Truck accidents are incredibly devastating events that often result in extensive physical, emotional, and financial damage for the other drivers involved. Because of their size, commercial trucking vehicles almost always cause more destruction than typically occurs when two passenger vehicles crash. A significant number of fatalities also result from truck accidents. In 2018, the most recent year for data, 5,096 large trucks and buses were involved in fatal crashes, according to the Federal Motor Carrier…

Clifford Law Offices partners, Sarah King and Shannon McNulty were among 50 exceptional women leaders in the law named as the inaugural Chicago Daily Law Bulletin & Chicago Lawyer Salute! Women in Law Award honorees. 500 women in law were nominated by their peers and the honorees were screened by the Women’s Advisory Panel and then chosen by the CDLB & CL selection committee. Sarah and Shannon were selected for making an incredible impact on…

Clifford Law Offices, a nationally-recognized personal injury law firm, was named to the list of Top 50 Verdicts in the United States in 2019 by Top Verdict, for the case G.S. v. Walker, et al. that was centered around a delayed childbirth resulting in a birth injury. A $101 million verdict was obtained that was led by founder and senior partner, Robert A. Clifford, along with firm attorneys Bradley M. Cosgrove, Keith A. Hebeisen, Charles…

Boeing and American Airlines will be hosting a 737 MAX 8 marketing event on Wednesday, December 2, 2020, that involves flying reporters and videographers on the aircraft. The MAX fleet was grounded for 20 months following two crashes of the dangerous plane that killed 346 people in two separate crashes within five months. Reporters will be flown round trip from Dallas, Texas, to Tulsa, Oklahoma, during this marketing event. Families of victims of the Boeing…

For more than a year, ABC News has been working on getting the story behind the two crashes of a new Boeing aircraft, the MAX, that killed 346 people. It culminated in a two-hour documentary, “Falling From the Sky,” that aired on ABC Friday, November 27, 2020. More than three million people viewed the genesis of two new aircraft crashing, and Boeing’s profit-seeking culture that led to these avoidable tragedies. Robert A. Clifford was a…

The Diversity Scholarship Foundation is a nonprofit organization, established in 2008, by a group of attorneys and judges committed to the ideal that diverse law student bodies are a means of ensuring further diversification in the legal community. The Foundation will be honoring Clifford Law Offices Communications Partner, Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, with the 2020 Advocate for Diversity Award on December 8th, 2020 at the Unity Gala. “I am humbled by this award, but it also…

Two family members who lost loved ones in the crash in Ethiopia of the Boeing 737 MAX are testifying Tuesday, November 24, 2020 before the House of Commons’ Standing Committee of Transport, Infrastructure and Community. Paul Njoroge, who lost his wife, three small children, and his mother-in-law, and Chris Moore, who lost his 24-year-old daughter, are testifying regarding the ungrounding of the dangerous Boeing 737 MAX that killed 157 people on March 10, 2019. Canadian…