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Clifford Law Offices’ practice areas include personal injury, medical malpractice, hospital negligence and aviation litigation involving both private and commercial aircraft. With over 20 Chicago personal injury lawyers, we offer experienced counsel in a wide range of critical practice areas:

Personal Injury

Personal injury involves injury to an individual. This area of law allows the injured person to sue in a private action called a civil action, known in the legal community as a tort action. A "tort" is a wrong against a person. Any accident or injury against a person can constitute a tort -- whether it be in a car accident, the use of a product, or the negligence of a professional. The Chicago personal injury lawyers of Clifford Law Offices stand ready to assist you in evaluating your case and pursuing justice.

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Maritime Law / Maritime Litigation

Clifford Law Offices has represented individuals in many complex cases involving mass transportation disasters. Commercial airliners that plunged into the ocean and railroad crashes involving hundreds of passengers – the lawyers at Clifford Law Offices have handled these cases, oftentimes being appointed as lead counsel to head the litigation effort in the courts.

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Wrongful Death

Wrongful death generally means a lawsuit is filed when the wrongful conduct of a person or entity results in the death of another person. Like personal injury, this area of tort can involve every area of tort practice.

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Medical Malpractice and Hospital Negligence

Clifford Law Offices has handled medical malpractice claims involving every medical specialty. In this era of health care change and turmoil, Clifford Law Offices' commitment is unwavering in responding to consumer rights and awareness. For an experienced Chicago medical malpractice attorney (including a brain injury lawyer or birth injury lawyer), confer with the medical negligence lawyers at Clifford Law Offices.

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Medical Devices and Pharmaceutical Litigation

Attorneys at Clifford Law Offices are well versed in this highly complex area of law that involves defective medical devices or ingesting prescription medicines with dangerous and undisclosed side effects.

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Spinal Cord Injury

Since the costs of care for a spinal cord injury can be millions of dollars, you need the services of a law firm which successfully handles complex litigation with corporations and insurance companies, and ardently defends the rights of the victim.

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Transportation Liability

One of the most frequent types of personal injury or wrongful death claim involves transportation liability: accidents that occur when people are on the move.

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Railroad Accidents

When a loved one is injured or killed in a train accident, lawyers are often asked to determine responsibility. The experienced railroad accident attorneys at Clifford Law Offices can help.

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Truck Accidents

Tractor-trailer and truck accident attorneys at Clifford Law Offices are available for consultation.

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Product Liability

Clifford Law Offices has been a pioneer in the field of consumer safety. From airplanes to automobiles, from baby blankets to household products, from toys to sports equipment, Clifford Law Offices has represented a wide array of products where the product design was unsafe.

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Construction Liability

Accidents on the job unfortunately occur when machinery, equipment or the workplace itself are unsafe. Clifford Law Offices represents many workers who have been injured while on the job.

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Premises Liability

Premises liability law generally refers to accidents that occur on someone else's property that was in a negligent or unsafe condition.

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Pelvic Mesh / Mass Torts

Mass torts are cases that involve a large number of claims associated with a single product or event and are marked by a commonality of important factual and legal issues. Mass torts are most prevalent in medical device and pharmaceutical litigation.

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Aviation Litigation

The firm’s highly experienced trial attorneys have successfully represented passengers and crew members involving commercial aviation litigation as well as private aircraft, corporate jets and helicopter crashes. The firm has brought lawsuits against a number of major airlines and virtually every major aircraft manufacturer involved in these tragedies in the last 20 years.

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Commercial Aviation Liability

Clifford Law Offices is involved in air crash litigation around the world. The firm has represented passengers and crew in cases against virtually every major aircraft manufacturer and has earned a distinguished reputation for managing litigation arising from commercial air disasters.

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New Cases at Clifford Law Offices

♦ Several survivors of Turkish Airlines Flight 1951 that crashed on a runway at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport last year

♦ Air Cargo truck strikes young man near airport requiring him to be in nursing home the rest of his life

♦ Flying ice that is not cleared off the top of a truck travels under a viaduct strikes a man driving a car in the opposite direction, causing him severe damage to his face and eye

♦ Young woman killed on bicycle trip in Southern Illinois when she is struck by an 86-year-old driver in a mini-van that swerved and hit her and two friends

♦ Explosion at food bin in downstate Illinois causes burns over 80 percent of worker's body

♦ Crestwood man requires a liver transplant after drinking water contaminated with known carcinogenic compounds in the village water

♦ Woman struck by van at intersection of North Avenue and Cicero in Chicago suffers facial injuries and teeth loss

♦ Woman in wheelchair from polio who worked at veterans' hospital is tipped over on a bus ramp as she is departing for work, breaking both her knees and other severe injuries

♦ Pedestrian waiting for a bus in Chicago is struck by an AT&T truck that swerved and struck her, pinning her against a fence and causing severe injuries that led to her death

♦ 45-year-old journalist walking across America is struck by car that swerved across two lanes of traffic in East Carroll, Illinois, suffering multiple legs and arm fractures, collapsed lung and spinal injuries

♦ Service technician and father of two young boys at Coca Cola facility is crushed by platform as he repaired leaking hydraulic line

♦ People's Gas worker is killed while working in a hole testing pipes

♦ Father of a young boy dies from negligent treatment of pneumonia