Media Appearances

Bob Clifford, aviation attorney and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, again was on KKSF Radio’s “Gil Gross Show” Thursday (March 20, 2014) for more than 10 minutes discussing the fire theory of the vanishing Malaysia Airlines aircraft. He then got into why asset tracking devices are needed and criticized the airline industry for not spending the money to add them. Bob said, “You’re going to see a push for those two technologies (including deployables).”…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, was quoted by Associated Press reporter Scott Mayerowitz in a story that appeared March 16, 2014, entitled, “Will Missing Jet Prompt Change in Aviation System?” AP wrote, “Numerous experts have said it is time to update tracking abilities and use satellite links to provide real-time feeds on the operation of planes and conversations within the cockpit.” Clifford told AP, though, “If such information were to be…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke once again to popular radio show host Gil Gross on KKSF Radio on the latest details available Friday afternoon (March 14, 2014) on the vanishing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. For more than 10 minutes, Mr. Clifford spoke to Gil and his wife Rhoda, discussing the various theories that were being bandied about this “ever-changing story,” according to Gil. “There’s nothing off the table here,” Clifford said of the various…

Personal injury and aviation accident attorney at Clifford Law, Kevin Durkin was featured in Chicago Lawyer Magazine in an article called The Durkin 5. Of the eight Durkin brothers, five of them have become respected legal professionals in Illinois. The article talks about how the brothers grew up in Chicago’s West Side, later relocating to a house on Canterbury Street in Westchester. Their mother, a petite woman, was described by her sons as being “tough…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, appeared on a number of radio shows on the West Coast –  from San Francisco to Los Angeles –  speaking about the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. In particular, Mr. Clifford spoke on the issue of deployable recorder technology that he said should be on every commercial flight. The “live black box,” as it is sometimes called, would be ejected from the aircraft upon impact…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke to The Wall Street Journal about the need for every commercial jetliner to be equipped with what are called “live black boxes” that jettison from the aircraft upon impact and put out an electronic signal that allows search and rescue teams to find the record and wreckage location in minutes or hours. Mr. Clifford spoke to Andy Pasztor of The Wall Street Journal for a…

Bob Clifford was interviewed by WBBM-AM reporter John Cody about the dangers and realities of falling ice in downtown Chicago. Clifford said that building owners and property managers do have a responsibility to people, even passersby, concerning the possible harm from falling ice. Furthermore, he stated that while any warning signs were a “public service,” they were sometimes confusing and not at all adequate to free these properties from legal liability. Also, if a building has a history of injuries from falling ice, then…

Clifford Law Offices recently won a favorable verdict in two cases of wrongful death involving grain bin tragedies that took place in 2010. That makes this the second instance in as many years of negligence involving grain bins that necessitated legal action and resulted in justice for the injured last year and for the families of the deceased last week. The Chicago Tribune brought much-needed attention to these cases with coverage and bandwidth so that…

In what is the highest verdict for a minor outside of Cook County, yesterday Clifford Law Offices obtained a $16 million verdict for two teenagers who were killed in a grain bin incident in Mt. Carroll, Illinois, in 2010. Each of the boys’ families were awarded $8 million, a record in the state outside of Cook County in the wrongful death of a minor, according to John Kirkton of the Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter….