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Volkswagen has reached proposed Settlements involving 2.0-liter Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), the California Attorney General, the California Air Resources Board (“CARB”), the Federal Trade Commission, and current vehicle owners/lessees and certain former vehicle owners/lessees in the United States. If the proposed Settlements are approved by the California Judge, then Volkswagen has agreed to: Buy back, terminate leases or provide approved emissions modifications for nearly 475,000 2.0-liter…

A Cook County Circuit Court jury returned a verdict for $3.3 million against Northwestern Hospital for administering a 56-year-old man 10 times the ordered dosage of an anti-viral drug that led to his kidney failure and death. Keith A. Hebeisen and Sarah F. King, lawyers at Clifford Law Offices, obtained the verdict against the major hospital in a Chicago courtroom following a one-week trial. The six-man-six-woman jury deliberated less than two hours before returning the…

For decades, members of the medical and scientific communities have published studies linking talcum powder use and an increased risk of ovarian cancer. While the exact reason for this link is the subject of ongoing research, many believe talc particles enter the vagina and migrate to the ovaries. While some scientists do not believe this connection has been proven conclusively, others believe there is a strong link between talc usage and a heightened ovarian cancer…

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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 represented 18 families who were victims of the Turkish Air crash of Flight 1951 at Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam on Feb. 25, 2009, that killed nine passengers and crew members. The most recent commercial jet crash at Dubai International Airport is eerily similar – with 300 people miraculously escaping with their lives, sprinting on the runway after the Emirates plane reportedly exploded after landing. Emirates is the Middle East’s largest airline. Six…

Clifford Law Offices and the Law Offices of Robert Montgomery obtained a $5 million verdict late Friday on behalf of a LaGrange Park, Illinois college student who was severely injured when a semi-truck and trailer struck her on I-65. Bradley M. Cosgrove of Clifford Law Offices in Chicago and Robert A. Montgomery of the Law Offices of Robert Montgomery with offices in Lake County, Indiana, obtained the $5M verdict before Judge Bruce Parent following a…

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…