Programs & Events

  The Trial of Antigone: Heroine Or Enemy of The State? Leading U.S. legal scholars take on the case of Antigone v. Creon An all-star team of litigators including Robert Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, is preparing to take on one of the great legal cases in literary history sponsored by the National Hellenic Museum. The Trial of Antigone follows the extraordinary success of the Trial of Socrates and…

On February 18th, 2016 Clifford Law Offices sponsored a free 2-hour continuing legal education (CLE) program on “The Ethics of Pre-Trial and Trial Work” in the ninth annual Clifford Law Offices Continuing Legal Education Series. The CLE program had an all-time high of more than 3,900 registrants. Photo above- left to right: Robert A. Clifford, moderator, standing Judge John C. Griffin, Supervising Judge, Cook County Circuit Court Mary Robinson, Mary Robinson Law Professor Robert Burns,…

Moderator: Robert A. Clifford, Founder and Senior Partner, Clifford Law Offices Panelists: Robert Burns Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law Hon. John C. Griffin Supervising Judge of the Commercial Section of the Law Division, Cook County Circuit Court and member of the Illinois Supreme Court’s Judicial Conference Committee on Education Mary Robinson Principal in the Robinson Law Group, LLC and Shakman Compliance Administrator for Cook County, Illinois Clifford Law Offices is sponsoring…

Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, is Co-Chair of the Planning Committee for Women Everywhere: Partners in Service, Inc.’s annual holiday fundraiser. The event is scheduled for 5-7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 14, at Hub 51 on West Hubbard Street in Chicago. Single tickets are $100 and sponsorships are available. To purchase tickets or for information, call King at 312-977-2882 or email her at SFK@Cliffordlaw.com Funds raised help to fund scholarships to four public…

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Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, participated in a panel on “Beginning with the End in Mind – Classic Chicago Closings” at the American Bar Association (ABA) Annual Meeting in Chicago. Others on the panel included the Hon. Virginia Kendall and Hon. Jorge L. Alonso, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, and Carrie Hamilton, former Assistant U.S. Attorney in Chicago and now a Cook County Circuit Court…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, traveled to London as part of an American Bar Association (ABA) trip commemorating the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta at Runnymede. Clifford participated as moderator of a panel discussion entitled, “Where Would You Try a Case? A Live Action Primer on Trial Skills in the U.S. and the U.K.” focusing on the different approaches taken in the two countries’ courts to critical…

Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, introduced the speaker, Lori Lightfoot of Mayer Brown, at the Women Everywhere (WE) annual Education Day, Thursday (April 23). King, who serves as co-chair of the Planning Committee along with Kristin Barnette of Krovolec Jambois & Schwartz and Heather Keil of O’Hagan LLC, planned the event that included tours given by Cook County Circuit Court Judges Diane J. Larsen, Marcia Maras, Neera Walsh, Mary Margaret Brosnahan, Michael…

Legal experts, scholars, and students gathered to explore the topic of “The Supreme Court, Business and Civil Justice” at the 21st Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy. The free event was held at DePaul University College of Law in April 2015. The Symposium discussed the United States Supreme Court’s rulings on corporate interests and business entities, the subsequent influence on matters of corporate law, regulation, and a broad range of civil justice…