Clifford Law Offices is sponsoring Misericordia’s 39th Annual Family Festival, which will be held on Sunday, September 8th, 2019, from 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Family Festival has food, live entertainment, children’s games, raffles, and more. It is a great family event. Misericordia is an organization that helps children and adults with disabilities achieve their maximum potential and independence. For more info, click here.
Clifford Law Offices is sponsoring ITLA’s Women’s Caucus Summer Social. The social will be held on August 29, 2019, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Raised Rooftop Bar, located in the Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel. Appetizers and drinks will be served. Advanced tickets cost $35 and tickets at the door will be $45. To register, click here.
Leaders from 19 bar associations in Illinois pose with newly elected Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot (fourth from right, front row) at a reception held in her honor. Clifford Law Offices Communications Partner Pamela Sakowicz Menaker and President of the Catholic Lawyers Guild of Chicago (third from right, front row) had the opportunity to speak with the Mayor at the event attended by more than 1,000 lawyers and judges.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy at DePaul University College of Law held April 25-26. Academics from around the country gathered for the two-day program to discuss “Rising Stars: A New Generation of Scholars Looks at Civil Justice.” DePaul Professor Stephan Landsman, current organizer and director of the symposium, led the discussion among more than two dozen other law school faculty members including Maggie Gardner…
The “Trial of Megacles: A Test of Democracy,” a mock trial sponsored by the National Hellenic Museum in which founder and senior partner Robert A. Clifford defended Megacles before a packed audience of lawyers, will air this Sunday (April 28, 2019) on Lakeshore Public Media, WYIN Channel 10 in Chicago at 8 p.m. The one-hour broadcast also can be viewed in high definition for Comcast/Xfinity subscribers on Channel 239 at that time. Clifford, along with…
Erin E. Clifford, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Clifford Law Offices and President of Lawyers Lend-A-Hand, is co-chairing the Annual Lawyers Lend-A-Hand to Youth Spring Awards Dinner Thursday (April 25) honoring Cook County Circuit Court Judge Lorna Propes. Judge Propes will be receiving the Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Philanthropic Award for her work in the Chicago legal community. The event will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel at 5:30 p.m. The dinner and…
Clifford Law Offices sponsored a free continuing legal education seminar on Thursday, February 21, 2019 live at DePaul University College of Law, also broadcasted live via webcast to thousands, for professional responsibility credit. The two-hour program included an hour on wellness and an hour on diversity/inclusion, two hours of new credit that have to be reported starting this year. Part of the wellness hour included a lawyer, Karen Munoz, partner at Dolan Law and yoga…
In a resounding victory for the Father of Medicine, Hippocrates was found innocent of violating the Hippocratic oath in administering medical treatment to the dying King of Thebes in the mock “Trial of Hippocrates” on February 20th, 2019. Some of Chicago’s powerhouse lawyers, including Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, and Dan Webb, co-executive chairman of Winston & Strawn, defended Hippocrates against the City of Thebes after treating the King…
Clifford Law Offices is offering a free two-hour webinar program on wellness and diversity/inclusion Thursday, Feb. 21st from 2:30-4:30 p.m. The Path to Lawyer Well Being & Conscious Inclusion Thursday, February 21, 2019 | 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. CST This two-hour program has been approved for two hours of professional responsibility credit: specifically, one hour of Mental Health/Substance Abuse and one hour of Diversity/Inclusion. Illinois Professional Responsibility CLE Requirements Illinois professional responsibility CLE requirements have changed….