"Contingency Fee Financing of Litigation in America" - Third Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy

The nation's most respected attorneys and scholars will gather in Chicago to address the economics of the contingency fee in tort practice, its impact on bargaining, strategizing and settlement as well as the changing use of the contingency fee over the years.

CONFERENCE FACULTY

Janet Alexander is a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.

Robert A. Clifford is a lawyer with the Clifford Law Offices.

Dennis Curtis is the Robert C. And Nanette T. Packard Professor of Clinical Legal Education at the University of Southern California Law School.

Kirk Dillard is a lawyer with Lord Bissel & Brook and a member of the Illinois State legislature.

Marc Galanter is the Evjuve-Bascom Professor of Law and South Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Samuel Gross is a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.

Bruce Hay is a Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School.

The Honorable Earl Johnson, Jr., is an Associate Justice, Second Appellate District, Division Seven, California Court of Appeal.

Peter Karsten is Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.

The Honorable Charles Kocoras is a Federal District Judge for the Northern District of Illinois.

Herberg Kritzer is Professor and Chair of Political Science and Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Stephan Landsman is the Robert A. Clifford Professor of Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law.

Cynthia Lebow is a lawyer working at the Rand Institute for Civil Justice.

Robert Mnookin is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Jeffrey O'Connell is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law.

Judith Resnick is the Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School.

Theodore Schneyer is a Professor of Law at the University of Arizona College of Law.

Malcolm Wheeler is a lawyer with the firm of Pacel, Mauro, Hultin, and Spaanstra in Denver, Colorado.

David Wilkins is the Kirkland and Ellis Professor at the Harvard Law School.




Robert A. Clifford, one of the most successful tort lawyers in the country, endowed DePaul University College of Law with the country's first Chair of Tort Law and Social Policy in order to provide intellectual debate on the impact of the tort system on today's society. Since 1994, the endowment has provided support for faculty research, teaching as well as sponsorship of an annual seminar on a timely issue in the area of tort law.