Sarah King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, moderated and spoke on Friday, May 10th, 2019, at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Trial & Practice Tips Seminar. King, who also serves as Vice Chair of the ITLA Women’s Caucus that is planning this event, spoke on Pre-Trial Motions. Hon. Lorna E. Propes of the Law Division of the Cook County Circuit Court also spoke.
Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, is scheduled to moderate and speak at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Trial & Practice Tips Seminar May 10. King, who also serves as Vice Chair of the ITLA Women’s Caucus that is planning this event, will be speaking on Pre-Trial Motions. Other speakers include Hon. Lorna E. Propes and Hon. Clare E. McWilliams, both of the Law Division of the Cook County Circuit Court. The…
Sarah F. King, attorney at Clifford Law Offices and Vice Chair of the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Women’s Caucus, will be co-moderating the organization’s Trial and Practice Tips Seminar on May 10th, 2019. King will be moderating the morning program with Sarah M. Salger of Gori Julian & Associates of Edwardsville. King also will make a presentation on “Pre-Trial Motions.” Other topics to be covered include jury selection, opening statements, closing argument and a…
Sarah F. King and Charles R. Haskins, associates at Clifford Law Offices, moderated a program Thursday on “Motion Practice in Cook County Circuit Court.” The three-hour seminar included Judge James Flannery, Chief Judge of the Law Division, as well as Judges Melissa Durkin, Patricia O’Brien Sheahan, Lorna Propes and James Snyder. Topics that were covered included voluntary dismissal, discovery issues, directed verdict motions, post-trial motions, motions for summary judgment and motions in commercial cases in…
Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Annual Damages Seminar on Monday, February 18th 2019. Clifford will be speaking on “Direct Examination of Your Clients and Witnesses” at the seminar at the Westin Chicago River North, 320 N. Dearborn, Chicago. During his 40-year-plus career as an attorney, Clifford has examined hundreds of witnesses at trials that resulted in record…
Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, and Charles R. Haskins, associate at the firm, will be speaking at the Chicago Bar Association Friday, Jan. 11, on “10 Things You Need to Know Before Picking a Jury.” Cosgrove and Haskins together tried seven cases last year, the latest resulting in a $21.5 million verdict in the death of a small boy who drowned in a suburban pool. The jury deliberated 90 minutes following a…
Sarah F. King and Charles R. Haskins, associates at Clifford Law Offices, are co-moderating a Chicago Bar Association program on “Motion Practice in Cook County Circuit Court.” The program, to be held Thursday, Jan. 17, from 2-5 p.m. will include Chief Judge James Flannery as well as Judges Melissa Durkin, Patricia O’Brien Sheahan, Lorna Propes and James Snyder. Topics to be covered include voluntary dismissal, discovery issues, directed verdict motions, post-trial motions, motions for summary…
Bradley M. Cosgrove, partner at Clifford Law Offices, spoke at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association (ITLA) Medical Malpractice Seminar on “Demonstrative Exhibits.” Cosgrove has obtained numerous medical malpractice verdicts and settlements, some of them records in the state, the latest being a $21.5 million record verdict on behalf of a family who lost their son in a drowning incident. Other topics discussed at the half-day seminar included jury selection, birth injuries and “Perspective from the…
Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, spoke at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Young Lawyers’ Section (YLS) Tuesday (Nov. 6, 2018) on the “Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Trial.” King, a highly experienced trial attorney particularly in the area of plaintiffs’ medical malpractice, spoke on “Taking Depositions of Treating Physicians.” The other speakers included the Hon. Clare McWilliams and Hon. Marguerite Quinn, Cook County Circuit Court Judges of the Law Division. To learn…