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CBA Record September 30, 2014 By Pamela Sakowicz Menaker CBA Record, Editorial Board Member September 2014 Copyright infringement comes to life in the case of a young Chicago performer who tried to take on a highly successful international musical group, The Black Eyed Peas, for allegedly stealing her song. Chicago intellectual property lawyers Kara E.F. Cenar, lead defense counsel, and Justin Righettini of Bryan Cave, LLP represented the popular California-based group that included will.i.am. and…

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.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, was named the new class counsel in a federal class action lawsuit regarding allegedly defective Pella windows. 312.899.9090.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been named the lead counsel in the class action fight against Pella window company for allegedly defective, leaking windows. Law 360 reported on the decision by U.S. District Court Judge James Zagel. To read more about this story, see the following story below. Clifford Law Offices Tapped To Lead Pella Window Fight By Lance Duroni Law360, Chicago (September 15, 2014, 5:32 PM ET)…

Mass quantities of data relating to side effects caused by drugs and other medication errors were publicly released by the FDA with the hope that the information will lead to enhanced research in the area of medication, according to a recent article published by The Hill (“Open FDA Project Releases Millions of Reports,” June 2, 2014). The agency has reportedly released over 3 million reports, which were previously only available through tedious Freedom of Information…

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) apparently have backtracked on its earlier decision to stop publicly reporting incidents of life-threatening mistakes made by hospitals in their course of treating patients, according to a story that appeared in USA Today (“Feds reverse course, will release hospital mistake data,” Sept. 7, 2014). Federal regulators will resume releasing such data, including mishaps such as leaving foreign objects in patients’ bodies following surgical procedures and misreading of…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor of the American Bar Association Litigation News, authored an article on a recent decision of the Florida Supreme Court that held caps on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases are unconstitutional. In Estate of Michelle Evette McCall v. United States, the decision by the highest court in Florida makes it the eighth state in the country to strike down statutorily enacted medical malpractice…

September 15, 2014 By Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Litigation News Contributing Editor – June 2, 2014 A cap on non-economic damages in wrongful death medical malpractice cases is unconstitutional, according to the Florida Supreme Court. Florida becomes the eighth state supreme court to strike down statutorily enacted medical malpractice damage caps. The others are Alabama, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, New Hampshire, Oregon, and Washington, according to the American Association of Justice (AAJ). The Florida legislature approved a…

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…