Awards & Recognitions

Clifford Law Offices, along with their co-counsel, received the 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Public Justice on Monday, July 29 at Public Justice’s Annual Gala and Awards Dinner in San Diego. Lieff Cabraser partner Robert J. Nelson accepts the 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award from Public Justice on behalf of the State Farm team with Erin Clifford, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Clifford Law Offices. The team was recognized…

Robert A. Clifford is being named one of the 2019 Trial Lawyers of the Year by Public Justice. Public Justice is a national organization that celebrates and recognizes the work of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered grave injustice or abuse. Clifford is being recognized for his work in the $250 million settlement in Hale v. State Farm Insurance, a case that spanned 20 years…

Clifford Law Offices has been listed in Top Verdict’s “Top 10 Verdicts in Illinois in 2018” list. Listing #7 Amount: $21,500,000.00 Attorneys: Robert A. Clifford, Bradley M. Cosgrove, and Charles R. Haskins of Clifford Law Offices, P.C. Case: Estate of M.D. v. Justice Park District, et al. This was a $21.5 million verdict on behalf of a family whose son drowned on a weekly trip to the Bridgeview Park District Pool. The verdict was the…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, is among four finalists around the country to receive the 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice, an organization that celebrates and recognizes the work of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered grave injustice or abuse. Clifford is being recognized for his work in the $250 million settlement in Hale v. State…

Robert A. Clifford, founder and Senior Partner of Clifford Law Offices, was given the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, June 7, 2019 at its 47th Annual Meeting in Chicago. This award is given annually to someone selected by a committee appointed by the ITLA president. “The recipient is someone who has devoted, as Leonard did, a substantial part of their life and their practice to ITLA, has…

Sarah F. King, attorney at Clifford Law Offices, will be awarded one of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) William J. Harte Amicus Volunteer Awards for 2019. This is the third consecutive year that King has received this award. These individuals are recognized for their dedicated volunteer service and professional efforts on behalf of the ITLA Amicus Curiae Committee in preparing legal briefs before the Illinois Supreme Court and appellate courts during the past year….

The National Law Journal has recognized Robert A. Clifford as a 2019 National Plaintiffs’ Lawyers Trailblazer list in its third annual survey. Bob’s work has been exemplary over the years and the National Law Journal particularly recognized him for his recent $250 million RICO settlement against State Farm Insurance Company. “We are proud to spotlight a handful of individuals from each practice area that are truly agents of change,” wrote Vice President & General Manager…

Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, will be installed as a Director of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) at its Annual Installation Dinner May 30. King, serving her second term as Director, will be sworn in along with all of the other 2019-2020 officers at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Ave. King, who also is active in the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) having helped found the ITLA Women’s Caucus,…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker was re-elected to a second three-year term in the Illinois State Bar Association Board of Governors in a highly contested race. Previously, she held several committee assignments and was elected to three terms on the ISBA Assembly. Just last week, Pam was elected President of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago. Also elected to the ISBA was Rory T. Weiler as Third Vice-President. Nora Devine, Mark L. Karno, Sarah E. Toney and…