Awards & Recognitions

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, recently was elected to the Illinois State Bar Association (ISBA) Board of Governors. She then was appointed to be the Liaison ISBA Board member to the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC), Marking and Membership, and Human Rights committees. She remains a member of the ISBA Editorial Board Journal. She is pictured here (center) with a number of ISBA leaders as well as (to her right)…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been named to a two-year term on the Board of Managers of the Chicago Bar Association (CBA). Menaker, who currently serves on the CBA’s Judicial Evaluation Committee, Public Affairs Committee and CBA Record Editorial Board, was chosen as one of eight members of the new Board. A CBA Nominating Committee selected 16 lawyers and judges vying for the eight positions. Also among those selected were…

An independent research study done by several respected law schools rated Clifford Law Offices #2 out of 1317 law firms in Illinois between 2000 and 2010. Its 1st Tier firm ranking is the top 1.7% of the most successful med mal firms in Illinois, judged by total recovery. Only 22 firms made the 1st Tier. In the 1st Tier group, Clifford Law Offices had the highest cases per year and the eighth highest success rate…

Clifford Law Offices has been selected by U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers as a 2016 “Best Law Firm” in six legal categories. Both U.S. News and World Report and Best Lawyers ranked more than 12,000 firms in the United States. According to the bestlawfirms.usnews.com website, “The U.S.News – Best Lawyers ‘Best Law Firms’ rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process that includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review…

Clifford Law Offices prides itself on tackling complex cases to the very end. The firm devotes 100 percent of its litigation resources to plaintiffs’ work, evidenced by its notable verdicts – some of them record setting – in a variety of tort practice areas. Clifford Law Offices was named one of the National Law Journal’s Top 50 “America’s Elite Trial Lawyers” in the country in 2014, the only Chicago law firm to be awarded this…

Here is a recap the Newsletter from Clifford Law Offices, P.C. Winter, 2015 Volume 19 Number 2 edition: Clifford’s Corner Robert Clifford was named the top Best Lawyers in the Chicago metropolitan area in Plaintiffs’ Mass Tort/Class Actions in 2015. Clifford also was once again named one of the 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans. Clifford Law Offices’ Press Room Best Lawyers named the following lawyers at the firm to its 2016 list in various practice areas:…

Best Lawyers named the following lawyers at the firm to its 2016 list in various practice areas: Robert Clifford: personal injury/product liability/mass tort/commercial litigation/qui tam Keith Hebeisen: personal injury/medical malpractice Kevin Durkin: personal injury/aviation law/product liability Shannon McNulty: mass tort/class action/product liability Richard F. Burke: aviation law/personal injury Susan Capra: medical malpractice Bradley Cosgrove: medical malpractice Hon. Henry Simmons (Ret.): personal injury

Kevin P. Durkin received an award for Trial Lawyer Excellence presented by John Kirkton of the Jury Verdict Reporter, a division of the Law Bulletin Publishing Company. It is for his work involving the highest reported verdict in Carroll County, Illinois, of $16 million involving the death of two teenagers in a tragic grain elevator incident. The National Trial Lawyers of America reported on this record verdict and can be viewed here.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, was given the Award of Honor by the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation at its Fourth Annual Valor Luncheon yesterday at a very touching ceremony filled with Chicago’s finest (Oct. 14, 2015). Clifford, a nationally recognized personal injury and consumer litigation attorney in Chicago, has been a supporter of the Foundation since its inception with former Chicago Police Supt. Philip J. Cline, who was in…