Global Investigations Review (GIR) will present an award to the team of plaintiffs’ attorneys battling Boeing in a criminal liability case in federal district court in Texas. Clifford Law Offices is among the firms being honored in the category of “Boutique or Regional Investigations Practice of the Year.”
Paul Cassell, attorney for the families in this federal case and professor of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah, heads the team representing the victims of families killed in two Boeing crashes, with counsel from Clifford Law Offices of Chicago, Burns Charest of Dallas; Kreindler & Kreindler of New York; and Podhurst Orseck of Miami.
The team received a favorable result in their appeal against a U.S. judge’s decision not to reopen Boeing’s deferred prosecution agreement. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed the families’ status as crime victims and said their statutory rights must be upheld “at every stage of the court’s criminal proceedings.”
Various firms in several categories will also be honored for their work on November 14 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C. To view the entire list, click here.
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