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Our Offices Facilities Co-Manager, Tim Alamillo (AKA “Tubs”) is a talented artist and designer. He teamed up with Chicago Bulls to create his own Artist Series hat for their annual BMO Artist Hat Series giveaway. His hat design will be released at the Bulls game on February 25th, 2020. Tubs is a Calligraffiti artist who has over fifteen years of experience. He has painted and exhibited murals in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami as well as in…

CHICAGO, IL (February 2020) – Sarah F. King has been named Partner at Clifford Law Offices, a nationally recognized personal injury and wrongful death law firm in Chicago. King, who has been at the firm since 2011, has earned many significant verdicts and settlements particularly in the medical malpractice arena on behalf of women and children. Most recently, King was on the medical malpractice team of lawyers that obtained a record $101 million verdict on…

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on the topic of the Boeing 737 MAX Litigation at the 54th Annual SMU Air Law Symposium, on April 1, 2020. Durkin has been involved in nearly every major commercial airline crash of the last four decades, often serving as lead counsel. With his experience and success as an aviation accident attorney, he served for four years as the Co-Chair of the Aviation Committee…

Parents, take note. Around 14,000 Infantino baby carriers have been recalled due to a buckle on the product that can break and result in the child falling out, according to a report from CNN. The recall applies to Infantino’s Go Forward 4-in-1 Evolved Ergonomic, Flip Front2back, and Up Close Newborn infant carriers. These carriers were widely sold at Target and Amazon from November 15 to December 20, 2019. Four specific Infantino carriers were named as…

Clifford Law Offices is sponsoring ChiArts’ annual benefit: Kerfuffle!- “The Greatest Commotion of Creativity” on March 11, 2020 from 6:00-9:30pm. Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices, is on the Board of Directors at The Chicago High School for the Arts. They are celebrating 10 years of tuition-free arts education. Their mission is to “develop the next generation of diverse, artistically promising scholar-artists through intensive pre-professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum….

Eight Canadian families who lost loved ones in the crash of a Boeing 737 Max8 airliner met on Wednesday (February 12, 2020) with the country’s Minister of Transport Marc Garneau and came away with more questions than answers from the country’s highest cabinet position that oversees the federal government’s transportation regulatory and development. The three-hour meeting, which came after numerous requests by the families, resulted in very few answers for them but with a promise…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be a speaker at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) annual Ethics Seminar on April 3rd, 2020. Clifford will speak on “Ethically Getting Cases” in the half-day program to be held at the Hilton Oak Brook Hills Resort (3500 Midwest Rd., Oak Brook). Wendy Muchman, Legal Ethics Professor at Northwestern University, will also be speaking at the seminar on “Avoiding the ARDC”. The…

The late Earl B. Dickerson was an outstanding lawyer and among the first African-American members of The Chicago Bar Association (CBA). The CBA established the Dickerson Award in honor of his devotion to the law and helping others gain equality and justice. The Dickerson Award recognizes and honors minority lawyers and judges whose careers at the bar emulate the courage and dedication Dickerson had in making the law the key to justice for all in…

Kevin Durkin and Keith Hebeisen, partners at Clifford Law Offices, have been named to the Top 100: 2020 Illinois list by Super Lawyers®. Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation…