Programs & Events

On Thursday, May 20,  2021, at 2 p.m. CT, Erin Clifford, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Clifford Law Offices, will be joining a panel of female business leaders for an inspirational afternoon to discuss unique success stories and learn about different ways to unlock your potential. She will be joining these panelists: Kathy Roeser, Managing Director and Wealth Advisor, Morgan Stanley Cheryl Berman, Founder of unbundled creative Zoe Elton, Director of Programming, Mill…

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

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law offices and holistic wellness coach, is leading an online seminar for the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA) on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, at 12pm Central. The webinar is complimentary to NWSBA Members and will focus on lawyer well-being. The goal of Well-Being Week in Law is to raise awareness about mental health and to encourage action and innovation across the profession to improve well-being. When our professional and organizational…

Erin Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices, co-hosted the 2021 Virtual Lawyers Lend-A-Hand Spring Awards Celebration, “Heroes at Work,” that honored Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White, recipient of the Marovitz Philanthropic Award, for his decades-long work with the Jesse White Tumblers that helps youth across the city. The event, which raised more than $80,000 for programs helping mentor and tutor Chicago area disadvantaged children, also gave the inaugural My Hero Award to Daniel A….

Erin E. Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices, is Co-Chair of the annual Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Spring Awards Celebration to be held virtually Thursday, April 29. She also serves as President of its Board. Clifford, along with Board Vice President and co-chair Brian Monico of Hale and Monico, will host the evening that is a fundraiser to promote mentoring and tutoring programs supporting Chicago youth. For more than 25 years, Lend-A-Hand has been awarding…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) annual Trial and Practice Tips Webinar. The program will be held 10 a.m.-noon May 4 and May 6.  Registration for each session is separate. Continuing legal education credit is offered. A number of attorneys will be presenting various topics pertinent to trial practice and includes Jayne Reardon, Executive Director of the Illinois Supreme Court Commission on Professionalism,…

Pamela Sakowicz Menaker, Communications Partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to mentor a student affiliated with the Diversity Scholarship Foundation (DSF), a not-for profit organization established by a small group of judges and lawyers committed to the ideal that diverse law school student bodies are a means of ensuring further diversification in the legal community. Menaker, who has been assigned a student from Kent Law School, has been with Clifford Law Offices for…

Clifford Law Offices sponsored the 14th annual Continuing Legal Education (CLE) program titled, “Legal Ethics and Professionalism of Your Favorite TV Shows, Yada, Yada” on Thursday, February 18, 2021 from 2:30-4:30p.m. CST. The virtual CLE program was approved for two (2.0) hours of professional responsibility credit by the Illinois Commission on Professionalism. For two hours, a highly qualified panel examined the ethics and professionalism of lawyers as portrayed on various television shows over the years. Some…

James C. Pullos, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at noon at the Lunch and Learn Program Wednesday (Feb. 17, 2021) on virtual depositions sponsored by the Northwest Suburban Bar Association (NWSBA). Pullos, who has taken dozens of depositions via Zoom over the last year since the pandemic halted in-person proceedings, will be offering his experiences and pointers in taking virtual depositions. Pullos also served for 14 years as a Cook County Assistant…