Programs & Events

Clifford Law Offices is a sponsor of the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation’s annual luncheon – a fundraiser to honor the lives of Chicago’s fallen police officers as well as provide support and assistance to their families. This year’s Fifth Annual Valor Awards Luncheon is Wednesday, October 12th 2016, at Harry Caray’s Seventh Inning Stretch Restaurant in Water Tower Place on North Michigan Avenue. Awards will be presented to four distinguished Chicago Police Officers for their…

Clifford Law Offices, a long-time sponsor of Cristo Rey St. Martin College Prep in Waukegan, is an Academic Sponsor of its “el-e-vate” fundraising event Oct. 22. The academic sponsorship level is the equivalent to the cost of educating one student at the private school for a year. Clifford Law Offices has not only sponsored a student every year for more than a decade but also hires five students each semester part-time and, later, even as…

Clifford Law Offices attended the ABA Annual Meeting in August 2016, in San Francisco, California. The photo below shows Steve Weiss, Chicago lawyer and outgoing ABA Section of Litigation Chair, talking at the ABA Passing the Gavel luncheon about the popular Al Capone it produced in Chicago — Starring Bob Clifford as Al Capone. The photo below shows Former US District Court Judge James Holderman, Bob Clifford as Al Capone, Tony Valukas as prosecutor and Paul…

Clifford Law Offices Clerks Joshua Youssefi, Laura Canulli, Joe Carlson, Gavin Murphy and Francisco Espinosa attended the recent Chicago Bar Foundation Awards luncheon. (Pictured left to right) Joshua Youssefi, CLO Clerk, Judge Timothy Evans, Chief Judge of the Cook County Circuit Court, Laura Canulli, CLO Clerk, Joe Carlson, CLO Clerk, Francisco Espinosa, CLO Clerk and Justice Thomas Kilbride of the Illinois Supreme Court. CLO Clerk Gavin Murphy attended, but was not in the photo.

Clifford Law Offices was a 4-Star Sponsor of the 8th Annual Chicago Fire Fighters Picnic on Sunday, July 17. The picnic raises money for troops wounded in battle and donates specially equipped automobiles to soldiers with leg or arm amputations. Bradley Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has volunteered at the Chicago Firefighter’s Union picnic every year since its inception eight years ago. He grew up in a family of firemen. His grandfather, father and…

Clifford Law Offices is a 4-Star Sponsor of the 8th Annual Chicago Fire Fighters Picnic that raises money to help those are injured in the line of duty. The picnic will be held on Sunday, July 17 at Millers Meadows Forest Preserves, located on Roosevelt Road east of 1st Avenue; ½ mile south of I-290 and 1 ½ miles north of I-55. There will be pony rides, petting zoos, food and fun. Raffle tickets of…

Robert Clifford sponsored a book signing for Professor Stephen Daniels (center) who co-authored the book, “Tort Reform, Plaintiffs’ Lawyers, and Access to Justice” with Joanne Martin. Dozens gathered to hear him speak of the 20 years of study and interviews that went into explaining the fallacies of tort reform. Daniels is a research professor for the American Bar Foundation. Its Executive Director, Ajay Mehrotra, also attended (far right). Below is a short video on Steve’s…

Law Day 2016: Creating a greater public awareness of all that lawyers do.

“Privacy, Data Theft, and Corporate Responsibility” was the theme of the 22nd Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law on April 28-29, 2016. Discussions and remarks were split over two days with the first day focusing on tort perspectives and real-world challenges, and the second day focusing on privacy. Expert faculty from all over the country came together at DePaul University to share their expertise and perspective…