Programs & Events

Clifford Law Offices is a sponsor of Diversity Scholarship Foundation’s annual Unity Gala which will be held virtually on November 30, 2021. In addition to awarding 21 scholarships to diverse and deserving law students, the Foundation also will be presenting numerous awards to individuals in the legal community who have demonstrated a commitment to diversity and inclusion in the profession. This year’s prestigious Unity Award honoree is Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives Emanuel “Chris”…

Georgetown University Law Center Professor Maria Glover, who was selected as the 2022 Clifford Scholar-in-Residence, will be hosting an hour-long discussion on the topic of “The Law of the Back-End” at DePaul University and online on November 4, 2021, at 3pm CST. Professor Glover will address a series of cross-cutting issues that arise in mass litigation after settlements have been reached – the “back end” of mass litigation. While many consider the settlement as the…

Clifford Law Offices is a sponsor of the Friends of Prentice “Digital Campaign for Women’s Health” that is taking place from October 18th to October 25th, 2021. The Digital Campaign is in lieu of the annual gala, which will not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 1983, Friends of Prentice has made a tangible, measurable difference in women’s healthcare and is dedicated to funding superior healthcare for women of all ages and stages…

Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on “Special Interrogatories” at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Update & Review Seminar on October 22, 2021. Cosgrove, who has taken many cases to record verdicts across the state, will be participating in the morning seminar that offers four hours of continuing legal education credit.  Other topics that will be covered include nursing home litigation, premises liability, mass torts and construction cases.  The…

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…

Clifford Law Offices is proud to be a Gold sponsor of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ 107th Annual Dinner celebrating the installation of the 2021-2022 Officers and Directors. Sarah F. King, Partner at Clifford Law Offices will be installed as the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois (WBAI) Financial Secretary. She has been a long standing member of the WBAI and has served two prior terms on the Board of Directors. The event is Thursday,…

The 27th Annual Clifford Tort Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy attracted more than 1,300 attendees from 335 cities and reached 7 countries around the world including France, Pakistan, Germany, Saudi Arabia and the United Kingdom. The annual symposium brings lawyers, judges and academia together via webinar that results in a special law review edition published by the DePaul University College of Law. It has the most cited law reviews in the area of…

The Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association introduced Tracy Brammeier as its next Chair as well as a new Executive Council at the YLS Annual Meeting that was held virtually on June 2, 2021. Brammeier, an attorney at Clifford Law Offices, P.C., focuses on aviation, transportation, premises, and construction liability in addition to other areas of personal injury and wrongful death litigation. She has been involved in the YLS as Public Services Manager and…

“Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID 19 World” was the topic of the 2021 27th Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law that was held as a virtual program June 3-4, 2021. Academics from around the country gathered for the two-day program to discuss the mark the pandemic has had on the work of lawyers, courtroom procedures and views on government. They will examine the psychological and procedural effects…