June 2013

June 5, 2013 Keith A. Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been reappointed as Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Standing Committee on Medical Professional Liability. Incoming ABA President James Silkenat of New York appointed Hebeisen to the one-year term. Hebeisen, who has served as Chair of the standing committee since 2011, also serves as on the Medical Negligence Committee of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association. He has been active in the Chicago…

Age, Deterioration and Funding Remain Core Problems, 11 percent of the nation’s 607,000 bridges were considered “structurally deficient” in 2012, according to the Federal Highway Commission. Just five years prior, the agency reported 12 percent. Not much has changed, even since the I-35 Minnesota bridge collapse in 2007 that prompted massive bridge investigations across the country. Even more alarming is the average age of a bridge in the U.S. is 42 years old. So what…

Two Chicago personal injury attorneys became partners at Clifford Law Offices. Shannon McNulty and Bradley Cosgrove are also Chicago wrongful death lawyers.

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Clifford’s Notes, Chicago Lawyer June 1, 2013 By Robert A. Clifford For years, Illinois courts have protected landowners from obvious dangers and risks on their property if it involved fire, drowning and falling from a height. These three dangers were considered examples of a per se obvious danger. Mt. Zion State Bank & Trust v. Consolidated Communications, Inc., 169 Ill.2d 110, 118, 660 N.E.2d 863, 863 (1995). A new wrinkle has been added to the…