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This year marks Robert A. Clifford’s 40th year as a lawyer. His settlements for clients over the years have made major headlines, earning as much as a $1.2 billion settlement for one case alone. You can read more about his experience and work on his website. Bob continues to handle complex damage cases and regularly receives multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements. His dedication to his clients has earned him various recognitions nationwide. He’s been listed to…

Bob Clifford attended a celebration honoring long-time Chicago Daily Law Bulletin reporter John Rooney who received a byline posted on the famed Billy Goat tavern’s wall. Rooney, who recently retired from the paper following decades of reporting and thousands of bylines, was honored at the Chicago restaurant made famous by the late comedian John Belushi who shouted “Cheezborger, Cheezborger” as they flipped burgers for patrons on Saturday Night Live.

The numbers are impressive: Sarah King is only 28. She hasn’t even been practicing law for four full years. But in 2013 and 2014, King second-chaired medical malpractice cases that have brought in a total of nearly $31.5 million in positive verdicts for her clients. In every year from 2012 through 2015, King second-chaired a complicated medical malpractice case. These cases brought in significant verdicts ranging from $1.8 million to more than $15 million for…

Partner The truly gifted lawyer is one who generates praise not only from clients, her partners and judges, but attracts it also from her courtroom opponents. Shannon McNulty, an attorney with Chicago’s Clifford Law Offices, has earned just this kind of praise. And it’s little wonder why: At just 35, McNulty routinely handles the most complex of product-liability cases. She does so with flair, regularly earning positive settlements for some of the largest manufacturers in…

The National Law Review on Oct. 7, 2015, published an article by Steve Fretzin on “To Specialize or Not to Specialize.” In that article, a client of Clifford Law Offices was quoted as saying: “#1. You need to be the best at what you do. Whether you are a litigator or an estate-planning attorney, nothing is more important than being skilled at your craft…. A good example of this occurred when I was badly injured…

All of us have heard commercials for prescriptions drugs of one kind or another and towards the end of the spot, the announcer rattles off a list of possible side effects or dangers, some which may even include death. Despite the flowers and smiles in the videos and print ads, the warnings can be very serious and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that approves drugs for consumer use is now questioning whether the warnings…

The Washington Post today reports that Democratic Reps. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) have asked U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch to open an investigation into “whether companies that purchase settlement payment rights have violated federal law amid mounting criticism that some deals have taken advantage of vulnerable residents in poor, urban communities. ‘Our goal is to have the Attorney General’s office take a deep dive into these practices and expose…

  “If you want to be successful in law school or in the law, know and understand politics.” – Bob Clifford