Bob Clifford had the honor of meeting Justice John Paul Stevens in 2017 when he was awarded the Chicago Bar Association’s Award in Stevens’ name. In 2018, Kevin Durkin received this prestigious award. Clifford Law Offices sends its deepest sympathy and condolences to the family of Justice Stevens. He truly was one of the great legal minds of the century.
Keith A. Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, testified Wednesday (June 19, 2019) before the Illinois Supreme Court Rules Committee at a public hearing on proposed changes to various court rules. In particular, Hebeisen, past president in 2005-2006 of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA), testified on behalf of ITLA regarding Proposed Rule 18-01 that would require statewide use of a standard HIPPA order, which is now required only in Cook County. Hebeisen testified that…
2019 marks Clifford Law Offices’ 35th anniversary in business, serving the needs of clients in Chicago and throughout the nation since 1984. For the last three and a half decades, Clifford Law Offices lawyers have been nationally recognized for their excellence and success in complicated legal matters and complex cases. Today, Clifford Law Offices is one of the premier law firms in Chicagoland, being the only law firm in Chicago to be distinguished as one…
A federal judge in Miami, Florida, will be ruling in June whether Carnival Cruise ships will be allowed to dock in U.S. ports because of alleged probation violations of the cruise line for dumping oil and garbage into the ocean. The cruise line has been on probation for two years as part of a record $40 million settlement for these violations. U.S. District Judge Patricia Seitz, Senior United States District Judge of the United States…
Chronicle Ganawah, an employee at Clifford Law Offices for three years in office services, guest stars on the popular NBC-TV series Chicago Fire, tonight at 8 p.m. He’s also been on the popular Chicago P.D. series. You can see some of the Kenwood Academy High School’s acting work here. Be sure to tune in tonight to see his debut with some of Hollywood’s most popular actors!
The Illinois House voted Nov. 27 to increase the cap on damages made in the Illinois Court of Claims to $2 million in a 71-36 vote overriding Governor Rauner’s veto. The Illinois Senate already had voted to override the veto, so the bill is now law. The change comes in response to the tragic deaths from Legionnaires’ disease of several Illinois residents of Veterans’ Homes. In particular, the state had been criticized for its slow…
A sobering statistic recently was released by the International Transport Forum: the United States leads the world in increased traffic deaths with a primary cause believed to be distracted driving. According to the new study of 29 nations, only five of the countries saw an increase between 2010-2016. The U.S., which jumped 13.5 percent in this period, was ahead of Argentina that experienced a 9 percent increase, followed by Chile that experienced a 5 percent…
Charles Haskins’ favorite fictional legal character is lawyer and former district attorney Paul Biegler (played by James Stewart) from the movie Anatomy of a Murder. Charles’ favorite line from the movie came from Paul Biegler’s colleague, Parnell Emmett McCarthy, who drunkenly states on juries: “Twelve people go off into a room: twelve different minds, twelve different hearts, from twelve different walks of life; twelve sets of eyes, ears, shapes, and sizes. And these twelve people…
Kevin Durkin’s favorite fictional character is lawyer Jake Brigance from Time to Kill. According to Wikipedia, “The film involves the rape of a young girl, the arrest of the rapists, their subsequent murder by the girl’s father, and the father’s trial for murder.” Durkin’s favorite quote from Jake is, “Now it is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth but to actually seek it, to find it, to live it.”