Robert A. Clifford

A small charter fishing plane crashed in a remote area of Canada carrying four friends on August 24, 2002. A 41-year-old business executive from Geneva, Illinois, was killed. Clifford Law Offices represented his family and obtained a $4.2 million settlement.

A 42-year-old construction worker suffered a comminuted, angulated, and displaced fracture of the proximal third of his tibia when a steel beam, on which he was walking, gave way due to improper weld.

Aviation accident lawyer Richard Burke obtained a $6.8 million verdict as a result of the crash of a Piper aircraft in northwest suburban Schaumburg, Illinois on behalf of a Plainfield woman who suffered injuries as a passenger when the plane ran out of gas. The National Law Journal recognized this success as the "Verdict of the Week" in May 2002.

Girl X, a 9-year-old, is brutally attacked and poisoned at a Chicago housing project.

Internationally acclaimed violinist severely injured due to negligence of train company. Click here to read more about this case.

15-year-old severely injured and two teenagers killed when SUV rolls over on expressway.

Sport utility vehicle rolls over, injuring 6 passengers. (Partial settlement)

Alaska Air Flight 261 crashed into the Pacific Ocean in 2000 carrying 88 passengers, many home-bound for Seattle from sunny Puerto Vallarta. We represented seven families who lost loved ones. Aviation attorney Kevin Durkin deposed more than 80 people, including airline executives and aviation experts, over three years to determine the cause of the crash - the airplane's jackscrew system. Even though the National Transportation Safety Board gave the company a virtual pass in its report of the Accident, our airplane Accident lawyers did the work needed to prevail on behalf of the families we represented.

Construction worker fractures hip and vertebrae after falling off unguarded bridge.