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Clifford Law Offices once again ranks among the top Illinois law firms in the Chicago Lawyer Magazine's annual settlement survey, listed as number two in the 2022 Jury Verdict Reporter Settlement Report. The list, published in the October/November issue of the magazine, reflects the firm’s total secured settlements of $500,000 or more within the state over the 12-month period from August 1, 2021, through July...

The Diversity Scholarship Foundation, a nonprofit organization, will host its annual Unity Award Gala on December 6, 2022, during which 22 scholarships will be awarded to diverse and deserving law students at law schools around the Seventh Circuit. Individual awards include the Unity Award being given to Illinois Chief Justice Mary Jane Theis. Other individuals in the legal community who have demonstrated a commitment to...

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be receiving the Plaintiff Attorney Achievement Award at the Jury Verdict Reporter’s Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards on October 25, 2022. He is being recognized for his numerous multi-million-dollar verdicts and settlements last year, in particular first-chairing five Illinois verdicts of $5 million or more. This year, he obtained more than $100 million in verdicts and settlements....

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices; Kevin P. Durkin, partner at the firm, and Tracy A. Brammeier, associate attorney, will be receiving the Trial Lawyer Excellence recognition at the Jury Verdict Reporter’s annual reception and awards ceremony on October 25, 2022. In particular, the event, sponsored by the Law Bulletin Publishing Company, will recognize them for their work on a...

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Annual Medical Malpractice Seminar on December 9, 2022. Cosgrove, who has obtained numerous record verdicts and settlements in the area of medical malpractice, will be speaking on “Aggressive Cross Examination of the Less Than Truthful Witness.” In his 16-year legal career, he has taken hundreds of depositions....