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The Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association will introduce Tracy Brammeier as their next Chair as well as a new Executive Council at the YLS Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually on June 2, 2021. Brammeier, an attorney at Clifford Law Offices, P.C., focuses on aviation, transportation, premises, and construction liability in addition to other areas of personal injury and wrongful death litigation. She has been involved in the YLS as Public…

Sarah F. King has been selected to serve as Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s (ITLA) Secretary in 2021-2022.   King has been involved with the organization for many years. She is a co-founder of the Women’s Caucus and currently serves as Parliamentarian for 2020-2021. Attorneys Tracy A. Brammeier, Bradley M. Cosgrove, Kevin P. Durkin, Charles Haskins and Craig J. Squillace have been elected as members of the Board of Managers. Keith A. Hebeisen currently serves as…

On Thursday, May 20,  2021, at 2 p.m. CT, Erin Clifford, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Clifford Law Offices, will be joining a panel of female business leaders for an inspirational afternoon to discuss unique success stories and learn about different ways to unlock your potential. She will be joining these panelists: Kathy Roeser, Managing Director and Wealth Advisor, Morgan Stanley Cheryl Berman, Founder of unbundled creative Zoe Elton, Director of Programming, Mill…

“Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID 19 World” is the topic of the 2021 27th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law that will be held as a virtual program on the web June 3-4, 2021. Academics from around the country have gathered for a two-day program to discuss the mark that the pandemic has had on the work of lawyers, courtroom procedures, and views on government. They…

The concept of driverless cars is here to stay. America is competing in a global race to make driverless cars the norm, and as predicted, nearly all major car manufactures currently offer vehicles with varying levels of autonomy. Today, more people seem to want driverless cars, there is currently little legislation controlling the industry, and the size of the global autonomous vehicle market is projected to be valued at $556.67 billion by 2026. What’s not…

More than 900 family members and friends from across the world who lost loved ones in the March 2019 crash of a Boeing 737 MAX jet (Flight ET302) in Ethiopia have signed a letter demanding that President Joe Biden and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg replace FAA Administrator Steven Dickson, Safety Director Ali Bahrami and other top leadership at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The letter including the signatories and to whom it was sent is…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will become the 2021-22 Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) Financial Secretary June 1 for a one-year term. The new officers will be officially installed at a virtual event June 17. King, who has been active with the WBAI for years, also serves on the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Board of Directors and has been very active with Women Everywhere, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating opportunities…

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law offices and holistic wellness coach, is leading an online seminar for the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA) on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 12pm Central. The webinar is complimentary to NWSBA Members and will focus on lawyer well-being. The goal of Well-Being Week in Law is to raise awareness about mental health and to encourage action and innovation across the profession to improve well-being. When our professional and organizational…

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices, co-hosted the 2021 Virtual Lawyers Lend-A-Hand Spring Awards Celebration, “Heroes at Work,” that honored Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, recipient of the Marovitz Philanthropic Award, for his decades-long work with the Jesse White Tumblers that helps youth across the city. The event, which raised more than $80,000 for programs helping mentor and tutor Chicago area disadvantaged children, also gave the inaugural My Hero Award to Daniel A….