Clifford Law

Democratic Senators Edward Markey (MA) and Richard Blumenthal (CT) urged the Department of Transportation to take action to ensure that owners of the estimated 2.6 million recalled GM models to cease driving them until they are repaired, according to Reuters. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, who has been investigating the failure of GM to take action to combat the defects, has authority to pursue recalls of vehicles deemed as unsafe, but they cannot force…

Associate Justice Stephen Breyer spoke with DePaul University College of Law Professor  Stephan Landsman on “Judge Jack Weinstein’s Impact on Civil Justice in America” for the 20th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy. Professor Landsman also serves as the Faculty Chair of the Symposium that was founded by Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago. Some two dozen judges and academics from around the country gathered for two…

Sarah King, of Clifford Law Offices, contributed to the Summer 2013 issue of the popular American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation Journal that is distributed to more than 60,000 lawyers across the country. An associate at the firm, Sarah wrote an article entitled “A Storyteller’s Apprentice” where she describes her preparing a case for trial under the mentoring of partner Keith Hebeisen at the firm. In it she explains the importance of telling the jury a…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices and Associate Editor of the American Bar Association (ABA) Litigation News, authored an article on the issue of attorney-client privilege in a business merger. “Attorney-Client Privilege Passes to Acquiring Company in Merger” appeared in the March issue of Litigation News that is disseminated to the 60,000+ members of the ABA Section of Litigation. The article surrounds the case of Great Hill Equity Partners IV v. SIG…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, testified Thursday (April 24, 2014) before the Licensing Committee of the Chicago City Council on its proposal to regulate ride sharing in the city. Safety of consumers was the underlying theme of the hearing. An ordinance is being considered that would require ride sharing companies to keep better track of its drivers, require testing of the drivers and the vehicles as well as pay taxes to…

Some two dozen judges and academics from around the country gathered in Chicago April 24-25 for the 20th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy that was marked by a taped conversation with Associate Justice Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States and Faculty Chair of the Symposium DePaul University College of Law Professor Stephan Landsman. The subject of the two-day program that offered 9.75 hours of continuing legal education…

As reported by Associated Press, the remaining seven federal court cases involving the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 that killed 50 people near Buffalo, New York, five years ago have settled in federal court before U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeremiah J. McCarthey. Robert A. Clifford and Kevin P. Durkin, partners at Clifford Law Offices, were set to try five of seven of these cases at the end of May. They settled for a confidential amount….

STATEMENT OF RAFAL AND MARIOLA ZAPALSKI On behalf of myself and my wife, we would like to say a few words about the seven long years that we have been waiting for this day. We both came from Poland to America for a better life. My wife and I were very happy in the Chicago area and we trusted the doctors here. Instead, because a doctor did not take care of my wife properly, she…

A press conference was held  on Saturday, April 19, 2014 at Clifford Law Offices with Mariola and Rafal Zapalski, plaintiffs in the $14 million verdict in Cook County Circuit Court. Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, along with associate Sarah F. King obtained a $14 million verdict Friday (April 18, 2014) against the prescribing doctor on behalf of a 37-year-old Chicago woman who suffered a severe disabling stroke 13 days after starting the…