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A northwest Indiana bus carrying its boys basketball team to its state tournament semifinal reportedly was struck by a driver on Interstate 65, causing the bus to overturn. All 27 players and staff were taken to area hospitals and the coach of Griffith High School’s team were airlifted to Christ Advocate Medical Center in Oak Lawn. The team members appeared to stand strong amid the tragedy that witnesses described to the media as saying that…

The Naples Children & Education Foundation (NCEF) awarded $11.9 million in grants to more than 30 organizations dedicated to helping needy children in southwest Florida. “The money the Foundation raised will make a difference in the lives of so many children,” said Robert A. Clifford, President of the Foundation and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices. “It’s investing in the future of this area and of our country through its children.” A grants committee of…

National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) investigators are on the scene to determine if the cause of an Amtrak train derailment in rural southwestern Kansas was caused by a previous crash that may have bent the tracks. It was reported that 32 people were taken to hospitals 120 miles west of Wichita. Some 131 passengers and 14 crew members were aboard when the two locomotives and nine cars derailed. Five train cars were reported to be…

Clifford Law Offices was a Diamond Sponsor of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) at its 2016 Judicial Reception Wednesday night at the Chicago Cultural Center. Several judges were honored with the Mary Heftel Hooten award including the Hon. Chief Judge Ruben Castillo, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of the firm, presented the award to Judge Castillo. The award is named for Hooten,…

An independent research study done by several respected law schools rated Clifford Law Offices #2 out of 1317 law firms in Illinois between 2000 and 2010. Its 1st Tier firm ranking is the top 1.7% of the most successful med mal firms in Illinois, judged by total recovery. Only 22 firms made the 1st Tier. In the 1st Tier group, Clifford Law Offices had the highest cases per year and the eighth highest success rate…

Robert Clifford will participate in the American Bar Association (ABA) mock trial The Trial of Al Capone for Murder at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Robert (Bob) Clifford will play the role of Al Capone. In the mock trial, Capone will stand trial for the 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre that allegedly included gang members of the rival North Side. The event will include respected judges and lawyers as well as live testimony from popular…

  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…

Robert P. Walsh, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on “The Client Interview” at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Nuts and Bolts of a Case seminar April 2. Walsh, who has handled literally thousands of motor vehicle accident cases in his three decades of practice as an attorney, knows this process very well and will speak first in the half-day program that offers continuing legal education credit. The seminar will be held…

Johnson & Johnson, the world’s largest maker of health care products, was slammed with a $72 million verdict by a Missouri jury for the death of an Alabama woman who died from ovarian cancer caused by the company’s well-known baby powder and other products containing talcum. The verdict, that was handed down Monday, February 22, 2016, is reported to be the first of among some 1,200 cases nationally involving this product and others that reportedly…