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A packed room watched at the Palmer House in Chicago as Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, and his wife Joan accepted the Distinguished Service Award from the Lawyers for the Creative Arts (LCA). The couple received the Award for their involvement and philanthropic contributions to the arts in Chicago, particularly the Goodman Theatre where Joan served as President of the Board for three years, and for their sustained work…

A brand-new Boeing 737-800 aircraft crashed Monday (Oct. 29, 2018) into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff from Jakarta, Indonesia. Lion Air Flight 610 had just taken off when three minutes into the flight the pilot requested to return to the airport. It was at an altitude of about 5,200 feet. Although the flight reportedly was cleared to return, the aircraft plunged into the sea minutes later. The National Search and Rescue Agency conducted an…

Keith A. Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking tomorrow at an all-day seminar in Chicago entitled Health Care Outlook. Hebeisen, who has obtained numerous record medical malpractice verdicts and settlements and is an Editor in Chief of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Medical Malpractice Trial Notebook, will be discussing “Professional Malpractice and Negligence” tomorrow at the Ivy Room, 10 E. Ohio St, Chicago. Moderating the panel are Bob Neiman and Ned Milenkovich…

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Medical Malpractice Seminar on “Demonstrative Exhibits.” Cosgrove has obtained numerous med mal verdicts and settlements, some of them record amount in the state. Other topics to be discussed at the half-day seminar include jury selection, birth injuries and “Perspective from the Bench” with the Hon. Kay M. Hanlon of the Cook County Circuit Court Law…

An estimated 26 people were injured when a No. 71 CTA bus crashed into a light pole on Chicago’s South Side this morning (Wed., Oct. 17, 2018). The incident occurred at the intersection of Cottage Grove Avenue and 71st Street about 6:30 a.m., according to the CTA. Twenty-one people reportedly were taken to area hospitals. The cause of the crash is unknown and police are still investigating the occurrence. Buses were being rerouted till 8…

Pfizer Inc. settled last week a case brought by New York’s attorney general based on the world’s largest pharmaceutical company misleading consumers with its drug co-payment coupon program. The global giant initiated a coupon program that led consumers into thinking they would be paying far less to fill prescriptions but then they ended up having to pay more from 2015-18. Pfizer agreed to pay $500,000 in fines and costs and to issue more than $200,000…

  Robert P. Walsh, partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke on “Liens” at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Update and Review Seminar in Chicago Oct. 12. Walsh, who has handled thousand of vehicular accident cases in his legal career spanning 40 years, spoke at the half-day seminar held at the Westin Chicago River North, 320 N. Dearborn. Other topics include “Using Technology in the Courtroom,” “Sex Abuse/Churches and Schools” and “Working with Experts in Brain…

ABC-TV in Chicago (WLS) features a weekly report on a Chicago area high school. This week’s selection was Marist High School on Chicago’s South Side in the Mt. Greenwood neighborhood, alma mater of Robert A. Clifford, founding and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices. Clifford, who graduated from the high school in 1969, is part of WLS’ Friday Flyover that features fun facts about the school that opened 55 years ago. In addition to Clifford,…

Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at an all-star line up of lawyers and judges at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Young Lawyers’ Section (YLS) Nov. 6 on the “Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Trial.” King, a highly experienced trial attorney particularly in the area of plaintiffs’ medical malpractice, will be speaking on “Taking Depositions of Treating Physicians.” Among the other speakers from 3-5 p.m. include the Hon….