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Keith A. Hebeisen, partner of Clifford Law Offices, will be receiving the Leonard M. Ring Lifetime Achievement Award at the 49th Annual Convention of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA). A select ITLA committee selects a lawyer each year who has demonstrated “a substantial part of their life and their practice to ITLA, someone who has done more than is called for” in the name of Ring, a prominent trial attorney in Illinois until 1994…

Robert A. Clifford has co-authored a chapter on aviation law for the Business and Commercial Litigation in Federal Courts, Fifth Edition. The Thomson Reuters law book, a distinguished library staple for litigators and a widely-recognized source, is a joint venture with the American Bar Association Section of Litigation. Bob’s chapter on aviation litigation provides a resource that details the complexities of aviation laws and regulations and the subsequent processes to appropriately handle litigation derived from…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, was elected Second Vice President of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) in June 2022. She will ascend to President of the statewide organization for the 2024-25 term. All the officers will be sworn in at the 108th Installation Dinner 5-8 p.m. on June 16th at the Chicago Hilton Hotel, 720 S. Michigan Ave. King has been active with the WBAI for years, serving on its…

A federal government agency released a letter on Tuesday, April 25, 2022, that it sent to Amazon executives asking them to review their severe weather emergency procedures following an investigation into the tornado that struck a downstate Amazon Illinois distribution center Dec. 10 killing six people and injuring dozens of others. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Hazard Administration (OSHA) late afternoon on April 26, 2022, released its findings following a safety protocol…

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, was inducted into the International Academy of Trial Lawyers at the 2022 Annual Meeting on March 18, 2022. The International Academy of Trial Lawyers was founded in 1954 and is recognized as the most prestigious organization of trial lawyers in the world. This select group of elite trial lawyers is comprised of lawyers from more than 30 countries from both sides of the Bar: prosecutors and defense lawyers…

The Trial Lawyer magazine and The National Law Journal have listed Robert A. Clifford, founder, and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, in “America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers.” Members of America’s 52 Most Influential Trial Lawyers are among the top U.S. civil plaintiff and criminal defense trial lawyers in the country. Each year, the Trial Lawyer magazine and The National Law Journal identify a select group of remarkable trial lawyers who have met the…

Clifford Law Offices who is representing the family of a delivery driver for Amazon who was killed during a tornado at its Edwardsville, Illinois facility, discovered through a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request that government-mandated engineers immediately dispatched to the scene after a deadly tornado discovered supporting columns improperly and inadequately holding up the 115,00-foot structure. Also, within three days of filing the initial Complaint in January, Amazon posted a job offer on LinkedIn looking…

Joseph T. Murphy has been hired as a partner at Clifford Law Offices. Formerly, Murphy was a Cook County Assistant State’s Attorney, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Department of Justice, and Chief of Federal Litigation for the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division at Fort Campbell where he served as an active-duty Captain. Joe presently serves in the U.S. Army Reserve. Joe received his law degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and obtained…

Vincent I. Ratulowski, represented by Clifford Law Offices attorneys Robert Clifford and Shannon McNulty, filed a class-action lawsuit on January 7, 2022, against PNC Bank claiming the bank has breached its contract by keeping unearned Guaranteed Automobile Protection fees. Ratulowski’s lawsuit alleges that PNC knowingly keeps millions of dollars in fees every year even when customers have paid off their financial agreements early. Under current law, when a customer pays off his/her auto contract early,…