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Sarah F. King and Bradley M. Cosgrove, partners at Clifford Law Offices, are presenting at the Arizona Association for Justice’s Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference. They will be speaking on The Power of Visual Persuasion on Friday, September 24th, 2021. Whether you are advocating for your client in a live trial, over a Zoom hearing or during a video evidence deposition, aggressive visual strategy is essential to success. In today’s digital world, visual advocacy is the…

The Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and the Chicago Chapter of the Federal Bar Association on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, presented Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, and Shannon M. McNulty, partner at the firm, with one of its 21st Annual Awards for Excellence in Pro Bono and Public Interest Service. The awards are given each year to recipients who have performed…

Our Offices Facilities Co-Manager, Tim Alamillo (AKA “Tubs”), is a talented artist and designer. He created a mural installation piece for the 2021 movie, Candyman. The film is a story of an artist who becomes fascinated with the urban legend of a killer. It is sequel to the first film, which took place over 25 years ago. “I am super grateful to have the opportunity to paint an original mural for the new Candyman movie,” Tim says. He…

The advice of Clifford Law Offices’ founding partner Bob Clifford titled, “Buttressing Your Rebuttal”, was revisited in Trial Magazine to celebrate the 75th-anniversary of the American Association of Justice®. Clifford’s original article ran in the Good Counsel column in August 1996 and discusses how to create an effective, offensive rebuttal that emphasizes the most powerful case components. He states that: “Your rebuttal is the last thing the jurors will hear before the judges give them…

The Pantoja and Aquilar families finally got to meet on August 3rd at noon at ASI, a non-profit organization on Chicago’s northwest side dedicated to providing home care services, employment, and training since 1975. The Pantoja family drove up from San Antonio, Texas, on what would have been their son’s 18th birthday to celebrate with a recipient family of some of the medical equipment that their son, Dylan, never got to use. Dylan died at…

Yvette Loizon, former Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney and clerk to a chief justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, is now a partner at Clifford Law Offices, a nationally recognized personal injury and wrongful death firm in Chicago. Loizon comes to the firm with a strong litigation background after serving in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office for 12 years where she managed all aspects of complex, cutting-edge cases, from investigation to litigation, such as…

Susan A. Capra, Partner at Clifford Law Offices, is quoted in a book titled, Cancer Care Malpractice: An Attorney’s Guide to Understanding the Issues. Susan’s quote is on pages 185-186 and referenced on page 225: “Each cancer case, with a myriad of complexities, requires an individualized approach. There is ‘no one size fits all’. Common cancer case themes are failure to recognize symptoms, failure to order appropriate testing, lack of follow-up regarding test results, and…

Now that summer is in full swing and people are enjoying the outdoors, playgrounds are a popular place for families to congregate. That makes it a good time to remind parents and caretakers about the importance of supervising the children that play on and around these structures. The risk of outdoor injury increases as the temperatures rise, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that every year emergency departments in the United States…

A heartfelt congratulations to those of you who are graduating from law school this year and to those who have recently passed the bar! The study of law is no easy feat, but you faced a larger challenge than any other law school class, that of continuing your education through a worldwide pandemic. And still, you persevered.  As you get ready to embark on your career in the legal profession, we would like to share…