Programs & Events

March 15, 2013 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, and a number of staff members and their family and friends worked the phones at a recent pledge drive night at WTTW, Chicago’s public television station. Clifford Law Offices helped take in 137 calls that grossed nearly $40,000 for the station that evening. Clifford is a member of the Board of Trustees of the station. The firm initiated closed captioning for locally produced…

March 11, 2013 The Supreme Court of the United States Historical Society is hosting its inaugural gala. Clifford Law Offices is a proud benefactor of the event that will take place Wednesday (March 13, 2013) in New York. Paul Cappuccio, General Counsel of Time Warner and Ted Ullyot, General Counsel of Facebook, are the evening’s honorees. Guests will be treated to a rare viewing of the first official printing of the U.S. Constitution. The document,…

February 22, 2013 Clifford Law Offices, a nationally renown personal injury and wrongful death law firm, sponsored its sixth annual webinar that provides professional responsibility credit. “Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial” held Thursday, Feb. 21, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at DePaul University College of Law, DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Room 8005, Chicago. More than 2,500 people attended in person or on the web. Panelists were Cook County Circuit Court Judge Kathy…

February 1, 2013 History did not repeat itself when Socrates was “re-tried” before nearly 1,000 people in Chicago Thursday (Jan. 31, 2013). Robert Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, was part of the all-star legal team that took part in the mock trial that was sponsored by the National Hellenic Museum. Clifford along with former U.S. Attorney Dan Webb defended Socrates who originally went on trial in Athens 2,400 years ago and was convicted…

January 23, 2013 An all-star cast of Chicago legal luminaries will be taking part in the “re-trial” of Socrates, the Greek philosopher who was tried and convicted in Athens on corrupting youth thousands of years ago. Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, along with Dan Webb, chairman at Winston & Strawn, will be representing Socrates in a trial testing freedom of speech. Former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, now at Skadden Arps, and…

January 23, 2013 Clifford Law Offices, a nationally renown personal injury and wrongful death law firm, is once again sponsoring a two-hour free webinar that provides professional responsibility credit. “Ethics of Witness Preparation for Deposition and Trial” will be held Thursday, Feb. 21, from 2:30-4:30 p.m. at DePaul University College of Law, DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Room 8005, Chicago. Last year more than 2,000 people attended the seminar either in person or on…