Attorney Articles

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor at the American Bar Association (ABA) for Litigation News, authored an article that was published on the ABA’s website on a recent tort reform decision. The Florida Supreme Court recently ruled that caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional, joining a number of states including Illinois that similarly ruled. Menaker explained how the 5-2 court held that the legislature’s statutory…

Sarah King, of Clifford Law Offices, contributed to the Summer 2013 issue of the popular American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Journal that is distributed to more than 60,000 lawyers across the country. An associate at the firm, Sarah wrote an article entitled “A Storyteller’s Apprentice” where she describes her preparing a case for trial under the mentoring of partner Keith Hebeisen at the firm. In it she explains the importance of telling the jury a…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor of the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation News, authored an article on the issue of attorney-client privilege in a business merger. “Attorney-Client Privilege Passes to Acquiring Company in Merger” appeared in the March issue of Litigation News that is disseminated to the 60,000+ members of the ABA Section of Litigation. The article surrounds the case of Great Hill Equity Partners IV v. SIG…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, authored an article for the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Journal on marketing tips for attorneys. The article entitled, “Decent Exposure,” appeared in the Summer 2013 issue of the Journal that is disseminated to more than 65,000 members of the Section of Litigation of the ABA. “Instead of the shotgun approach, try to think of your marketing plan more like a rifle shot, targeting an audience…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, authored an article for the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation News on a new case out of New Jersey that may be significant for drivers around the country, if the trend continues. The New Jersey appellate court held that the sender of a text message may be responsible when the receiving person who is driving a vehicle gets into an accident and causes injury or death….

An op-ed piece written by Robert Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, was published in the March 20, 2014 edition of the San Francisco Chronicle newspaper. In the opinion piece, Clifford wrote about “Two Essential Tools Would Prevent Repeat of Malaysian Mystery.” He goes on to explain the way deployable recorders and asset trackers would have led investigators to where the plane is, sparing devastated families the unbearable anguish they have been…

That’s the title of a two-page article that appeared in the February issue of the Chicago Lawyer on Clifford Law Offices. The reporter, Dustin J. Seibert, said, “That’s the feeling that surfaces just after you step off the elevator on the 31st floor of 120 N. LaSalle St. and into Clifford Law Offices.” Time and again, clients and visitors alike have described walking into the firm’s offices as if walking into one’s living room, and…

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, co-authored an article entitled “Building Your Case for the Jury” for the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. The ABA Litigation News recently published the article online, adapting it from a longer piece the two wrote for the Spring 2010 Issue of Litigation magazine. The original publication is mailed to some 60,000 attorneys across the country. In the article, Durkin writes about the enormous importance of mock…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, recently authored an article for the American Bar Association (ABA) entitled “Text Message Sender May Face Liability for Driver’s Accident” (Nov. 27, 2013). As a contributing editor for the ABA Litigation News, Menaker wrote about a recent New Jersey case which expanded the concept of duty for texters by identifying specific conditions under which the sender of the original message maybe held responsible along with the…