Clifford Law Offices

CHICAGO, IL (May 2021) – Four lawyers from Clifford Law Offices have been included as Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar by The National Law Journal. This is the first year that The National Law Journal is giving special recognition to this “select group of young lawyers under age 40 who are up-and-comers in the plaintiffs bar.” The Clifford lawyers recognized are: Sarah F. King (Partner) Tracy A. Brammeier (Associate) Charles R. Haskins (Associate) Marta…

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, 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, 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….

May 3-7 2021 is Well-Being Week in Law. This week is designed to bring awareness to the value of leading a balanced, healthy lifestyle for those in the legal profession. Most lawyers are 100% dedicated to their practice, and while this serves clients well, other areas – such as physical and mental health – may be neglected. With a little work – and we know lawyers are great at putting in the work – it…

Founder and Senior Partner Robert A. Clifford of Clifford Law Offices, wrote an article titled, “Follow the Money” for Chicago Lawyer Magazine’s April/May 2021 edition. In the article, Bob writes about how addiction to prescribed pain medications, or opioids, has risen dramatically in the past two decades with over 400,000 people across the nation dying from the opioid epidemic. Last May, the Clifford Tort Symposium brought together the best academic minds to “discuss the various…

On Friday, April 16, 2021, Clifford Law Offices filed two lawsuits in Illinois against United Airlines on behalf of two passengers who suffering significant trauma stemming from a flight that experienced a fiery engine loss while traveling from Denver to Hawaii on February 20, 2021. UA Flight 328 Boeing 777-200 was en route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff an explosion occurred, and the right engine was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced to…

The weeks and months leading up to the birth of a baby are full of joy and anticipation. Parents-to-be must be informed by their obstetrician of potential conditions and complications that can occur throughout the course of a pregnancy. One such condition is preeclampsia. As with many other medical conditions, the sooner preeclampsia is diagnosed and treated, the greater the chances of a healthy mother and baby at delivery.  Preeclampsia is known as a hypertensive…

Several passengers have retained Clifford Law Offices after suffering severe post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from a United Airlines flight that experienced a fiery engine loss while traveling from Denver to Hawaii on February 20. UA Flight 328 Boeing 777-200 was in route to Honolulu when four minutes after takeoff an explosion occurred, and the right engine was engulfed in flames. Pilots were forced to turn back to Denver as passengers witnessed the plane on fire…