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Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, is among four finalists around the country to receive the 2019 Trial Lawyer of the Year by Public Justice, an organization that celebrates and recognizes the work of an attorney or team of attorneys working on behalf of individuals and groups that have suffered grave injustice or abuse. Clifford is being recognized for his...

Robert A. Clifford, founder and Senior Partner of Clifford Law Offices, was given the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award on Friday, June 7, 2019 at its 47th Annual Meeting in Chicago. This award is given annually to someone selected by a committee appointed by the ITLA president. “The recipient is someone who has devoted, as Leonard did, a substantial...

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke Thursday (June 6, 2019) to a packed room on aviation litigation at the Chicago Bar Association’s Eight O’Clock Call. Moderated by the Hon. E. Kenneth Wright, Jr., Presiding Judge of the First Municipal District of the Circuit Court of Cook County, the early morning program at the CBA headquarters offered continuing legal education...

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, wrote a column for the Chicago Lawyer on the jury trial system in America ("Trials remain relevant, as Lori Loughlin is counting on"). Clifford, who has tried dozens of cases in his 40-year career, many of them record-setting amounts, writes about how Americans still need to embrace the jury system. He talks of a...

Sarah F. King, attorney at Clifford Law Offices, will be awarded one of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) William J. Harte Amicus Volunteer Awards for 2019. This is the third consecutive year that King has received this award. These individuals are recognized for their dedicated volunteer service and professional efforts on behalf of the ITLA Amicus Curiae Committee in preparing legal briefs before the...