Attorney Articles

Bob Clifford wrote an article titled, “Let’s Buckle Up – Time to require seat belts in every school bus” in Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s December 2019 issue. Every year, some 480,000 school buses transport more than 25 million children to and from school, according to the American School Bus Council. Only eight states –Arkansas, California, Florida, Louisiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas – have laws requiring seat belts on school buses. From 2007 to…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, wrote an article for The Chicago Bar Association’s CBA Record. She writes about the 2019 Justice John Paul Stevens Award. As a testament to the “greatest justice in our lifetime” who hails from Chicago, the 20th Annual CBA Justice John Paul Stevens Award carried on in his honor following his death July 16 at the age of 99. Menaker is also a member of CBA Record’s…

Robert A. Clifford, Founder and Senior Partner at Clifford Law Offices wrote an August 2019 column for Chicago Lawyer Magazine titled, “Suntan Motion.” In this article, Bob talks about lawsuits against companies who sell sunscreen with alleged false advertising. For example, a proposed nationwide class-action lawsuit was filed against the makers of Banana Boat sunscreen products alleging that their products do not provide the promised level of sun protection on its label. To read the…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, wrote a column for the Chicago Lawyer on the jury trial system in America (“Trials remain relevant, as Lori Loughlin is counting on”). Clifford, who has tried dozens of cases in his 40-year career, many of them record-setting amounts, writes about how Americans still need to embrace the jury system. He talks of a study commissioned by Clifford Law Offices that found that Gen…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, authored an article on “Rideshare Responsibility” in the April issue of the Chicago Lawyer. Clifford, a columnist for the monthly publication, writes, “If Uber and other ridesharing companies want to play a major role in transporting people safely from place to place, then they must accept responsibility in doing so.” To read his entire column about the case of an Uber driver who negligently…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, authored an article on lawyers’ wellness entitled, “Finding a Balance.” The column appeared in the February issue of the Chicago Lawyer and it described the need for lawyers to “find a balance” in one’s work life in order to be more productive and happier. Clifford wrote about the several studies that have been conducted recently on the issue and how bar associations are tackling…

Robert A. Clifford authored an op ed that appeared in Chicago Tribune on Sept. 12, 2018 that discussed the upcoming election of the retention of judges and the rating of them. Clifford questioned the reasons for a lobbyist group to send out a survey to judges currently sitting on the bench when the election is non-partisan and should focus on their work on the bench. A letter sent to all judges mentioned that a media…

“Drones are here to stay,” Robert A. Clifford says in his July Chicago Lawyer column. In examining the law on drones, Clifford looks at what the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and Congress have been doing to try to control hazardous incidents involving these popular devices. To learn more, read his column here.

Robert A. Clifford co-authored a chapter on aviation for the Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, 4th Edition. Columbus Bar Lawyer Quarterly wrote a review mentioning the aviation chapter Clifford co-authored. “The Aviation chapter will introduce litigators to the complexities of aviation laws and regulations, assure attorneys that they can admit they are unable to give crash survivors and/or family members adequate counsel, and explain the investigative process of the NTSB and the litigation processes…