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A tragic crash involving two school buses in Knoxville, Tennessee, killed two children and one adult Tuesday afternoon and injured another 27 people, most of them young children. The horrific event has left the entire community in mourning. Two buses were bringing school children home on a Tennessee highway when one bus reportedly made a sharp left turn and crossed over a concrete median, hitting the second school bus that was traveling in the opposite…

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Robert A. Clifford and Richard F. Burke at Clifford Law Offices, obtained an $11 million settlement for driver of a car rear-ended by a semi-tractor trailer truck.

Bradley Cosgove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, obtained the #1 verdict in Illinois in 2014, according to the National Law Journal.

Robert A. Clifford and Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, served on a panel Friday (Nov. 21, 2014) to speak on “Lawyers and the Ethics of Social Media.”

The National Law Journal has featured Bradley Cosgrove’s $14 million verdict involving the inappropriate prescription of Yasmin as the number one verdict in Illinois in 2014. It also represents the top 40th verdict in the country, according to the publication. Zapalski v. Resurrection Health Care Corp. involved a two-week trial against a doctor who negligently prescribed Yasmin to a 37-year-old woman who suffered a debilitating stroke after taking it for less than two weeks. She…

Judge Henry Simmons (Ret.), Managing Partner at Clifford Law, received the John Powers Crowley Award for Judge of the Year by the Lawyers Assistance Program.

Bob Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, recently moderated a program in conjunction with the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. The topic was jury selection and three prominent judges from the Cook County Law Division participated in the afternoon seminar. Left to right are: Judge Tom Lyons, Judge Donald Suriano and Judge James P. Flannery, Jr., Chief Judge of the Law Division.

Surgical rooms’ sterile environments are being contaminated by air-borne pathogens, according to a recent study published by the Journal of Hospital Infection. Forced-air patient warning systems appear to be presenting a problem that may have previously gone overlooked, according to the study. For example, at least three orthopedic-implant patients have sued 3M for its market-dominating Bair Hugger after these patients suffered deep-joint infections in cases that were previously rejected for lack of proof of causation,…