Programs & Events

Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, traveled to Mexico with the Chicago Bar Association and CBA President Ray J. Koenig III for the association’s 2024 CLE Abroad in Mexico. The educational trip included continuing legal education programming on comparative law topics and various tours and cultural experiences. Mr. Durkin, an established personal injury and aviation attorney with extensive experience in international litigation, was the moderator for the program’s session titled Comparing the U.S….

The topic of the 2024 Annual Clifford Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy was “The Legacy of Industrywide Deadly Conduct.” The free two-day program was offered as a webinar and a live event at DePaul University College of Law June 6-7, 2024. Academics from around the country gathered to discuss the impact of entire American industries that have united in a coordinated and sustained effort to advance their financial interests by knowingly promoting products…

Clifford Law Offices was a Bar Sponsor of the Women’s Bar Association of Illinois’ (WBAI) 25th Annual Judicial Reception. The event took place Wednesday, March 6, 2024, at The Chicago Cultural Center in Chicago, IL. Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, currently serves as the WBAI’s First Vice President. She is involved in numerous bar association activities and will be sworn in as the association’s President in June 2024. The WBAI was established…

Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, joined women lawyers in the Illinois capital on March 5, 2024, for the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Women’s Caucus Lobbying Day. The attorneys met with Speaker Welch, Leader Hoffman, and Representative Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, among other elected officials. Co-founded by King in 2018, the primary goal of the ITLA caucus is to ensure women have greater representation in the organization generally as well as in leadership positions,…

Four Clifford Law Offices attorneys joined the American Association for Justice’s (AAJ) Student Trial Advocacy Competition as judges in the 2024 Regional Tournament. One hundred sixty teams from law schools nationwide competed for the Student Trial Advocacy national title in a mock trial tournament that tests their trial advocacy skills. The competition began with Regional Tournaments taking place virtually March 7-10. Teams selected for The National Finals will compete in person April 4-7 in Chicago….

On March 12th, Sarah F. King, partner at Clifford Law Offices, addressed the DePaul University College of Law community as the featured alumni speaker at its reception honoring the alumni named to the Illinois Super Lawyers® lists, which King has been on for years. King graduated from DePaul University College of Law summa cum laude as a member of the top 5 percent of her class and was inducted into the Order of the Coif….

Clifford Law Offices is a Gold Sponsor of Southern Methodist University’s 58th Annual Air Law Symposium. The in-person event will be held at the Omni Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, March 20-22, 2024. As a global leader in aviation law, Clifford Law Offices believes participating in an educational and collaborative forum to understand the challenges and developments within air law is a benefit for lawyers everywhere. The SMU Air Law Symposium is the world’s oldest…

The National Hellenic Museum’s popular Trial series returns with The Trial of Pericles Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 7 p.m. at the Harris Theater Nationally renowned attorneys take on an ancient Greek case regarding Pericles, the great hero of Athenian democracy The National Hellenic Museum (NHM) presents the next installation of its popular Trial series—which demonstrates the enduring relevance of ancient disputes and supports the mission of the museum—with The Trial of Pericles on Wednesday,…

Robert A. Clifford and Clifford Law Offices were proud sponsors of Marist High School’s inaugural celebration A Night of Honor, Glory & Fame: 60th Anniversary Celebration. The event, which took place on December 2, 2023, celebrated a milestone in Catholic education in Chicago. The program honored the recipients of two awards presented to integral members of the Marist community and featured a silent auction to benefit students of the school. Hundreds of members of the…