Community Involvement: Commitment to Legal Education
ABA Day at Illinois Law Schools
As part of an ABA initiative encouraging law students to join the Association, Robert Clifford created the notion of ABA Day at Illinois law schools. The first annual ABA Day was held at Northern Illinois University College of Law on Wednesday, April 8th. Click here for more information.
ABA Section of Litigation
Bob Clifford accomplished this formidable task as Chair of Task Force on Terrorism and the Law while Chair of the Section of Litigation, the largest section of the ABA numbering some 65,000 attorneys from across the country. Bob Clifford led a year of critical meetings where these issues were discussed and debated, including a Town Hall Meeting at Faneuil Hall in Boston where the best and the brightest from around the country gathered with moderator Bill Kurtis. The debate was lively; the interaction informative and provocative. The focus of his year was on the sagging public perception of lawyers, a cause that was then taken on by the then President of the ABA, A.P. Carlton. Mr. Clifford is most disturbed by the American public’s lack of understanding in all the good that lawyers do for society. The second part of the Town Hall Meeting was a give-and-take on this issue which focused on the year-long study Mr. Clifford personally commissioned on the public perception of lawyers. Leo J. Shapiro & Associates, a national research group based in Chicago, conducted the study.
