Awards & Recognitions

February 23, 2015 Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been appointed to the Illinois Trial Lawyers (ITLA) Board of Managers. ITLA President John D. Cooney made the announcement. ITLA is a statewide organization of trial lawyers committed to plaintiffs’ rights. Cosgrove, who has had a string of highly successful verdicts in the past year, including some of them breaking previous records, also is active in ITLA as Program Co-Chair, organizing continuing legal…

February 16, 2015 Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, was named one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the country by the National Trial Lawyers. The National Trial Lawyers, based in Alabama, is a professional organization composed of premier trial lawyers from across the country who exemplify superior qualifications as civil plaintiff or criminal defense trial lawyers. This national organization provides networking opportunities, advocacy training and quality educational programs for trial lawyers….

Bradley Cosgove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained the #1 verdict in Illinois in 2014, according to the National Law Journal.

Judge Henry Simmons (Ret.), Managing Partner at Clifford Law, received the John Powers Crowley Award for Judge of the Year by the Lawyers Assistance Program.

U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers, for the fifth consecutive year, announce the 2015 “Best Law Firms” rankings and Clifford Law Offices of Chicago ranked a Tier 1 in the areas of Commercial Litigation, Plaintiffs’ Personal Injury Litigation and Plaintiffs’ Product Liability Litigation. It ranked a Tier 2 in the area of Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Law. Firms included in the 2015 “Best Law Firms” list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive…

Judge Henry R. Simmons (Ret.), Managing Partner at Clifford Law Offices, is going to honored by the Lawyers’ Assistance Program (LAP) for his outstanding contribution to the goals and mission of the organization, especially his work with leading intervention teams. The Illinois State Bar Association, of which he is a member, reported on the event scheduled in November. To read more about it, click here.

America’s Elite Trial Lawyers September 11, 2014 Clifford Law Offices is proud to announce that it was named among The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “America’s Elite Trial Lawyers.” In naming the top 50 plaintiffs’ firms in the country, The National Law Journal wrote that it wanted to recognize the efforts of trial lawyers who worked in the past year to obtain verdicts yielding more than $10 billion in recoveries. “The National Law Journal…

June 30, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been appointed by the President of the American Bar Association (ABA) to Chair a newly-created task force that will deal with policies, strategies and tactics for the recruitment and retention of new members. James R. Silkenat, ABA President from New York, appointed Clifford as Chair of the Task Force to Examine Association Policies Impacting Recruitment and Retention of Law Students and Young…

May 14, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, received the 2014 American Inns of Court Foundation Professionalism Award for the Seventh Circuit Monday night at the Radisson Blu hotel in Chicago to a packed crowd of more than 500 lawyers and judges. Clifford, who was President of the Chicago Inn of Court from 1994-95, was presented with the award at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference by Seventh Circuit Judge Joel Flaum….