Speaking Engagements

September 10, 2013 Sarah F. King, associate at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking Wednesday (Sept. 11, 2013), at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA) Tort Litigation Committee meeting on “Corporate Medicine and Hospital Liability.” She will be discussing the trends of the law of agency and practical considerations for litigating cases involving corporate medical entities as well as hospital liability. King, who focuses her practice on plaintiffs’ medical malpractice law, recently was published in the…

August 26, 2013 Keith A. Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking at the Illinois Trial Lawyers Association Update and Review Seminar on Oct. 14. “Medical Negligence” is the topic of Hebeisen’s presentation on the court holiday to be held at the Westin River North, 320 N. Dearborn, Chicago. The half-day seminar, which offers continuing legal education credits, is a popular program that offers much information to trial lawyers across the state. Hebeisen…

August 21, 2013 Keith A. Hebeisen, partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking Oct. 18 at the Chicago Bar Association’s (CBA) Trial Techniques CLE entitled “Strategies for Success at Trial.” Sponsored by the Young Lawyers Section Executive Council, Hebeisen, who has successfully tried dozens of cases in his 30-year career, will speak on “Trial Strategies from the Plaintiff’s Perspective.” Also speaking will be James Wideikis of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith on cross examination…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, recently was interviewed by Dean Gregory Mark of DePaul University College of Law. In the wide-ranging Q and A, Clifford spoke on a number of topics, reflecting on his 30 years since graduating from DePaul Law School. “Tort reform,” Clifford’s recently being named Person of the Year by Chicago Lawyer Magazine and his nearly two decades of sponsoring a two-day symposium at the law school were…

Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, closed out a three-hour program and spoke to a group of lawyers on closing arguments at the Young Lawyers Section Trial Techniques Seminar at the Chicago Bar Association (CBA). Clifford, along with Colin Smith of Holland & Knight, William Spiro of Law Office of William B. Spiro, and the Hon. James Shapiro of the Cook County Circuit Court, spoke on the various elements of a trial…

May 20, 2013 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will be speaking on “Closing Arguments” Wednesday (May 22) at the Chicago Bar Association Young Lawyers Section Trial Techniques Seminar. The three-hour afternoon program will deal with the four components of a trial: opening statements, direct examination, cross examination and closing arguments. The program provides continuing legal education credit. Also part of the program are Collin Smith of Holland & Knight on opening…

April 23, 2013 The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation hits town Wednesday (April 24, 2013) for a three-day conference and among the highlights of the programming is an all-day Anatomy of a Trial. Top trial lawyers from around the country will dissect the elements of a trial using the famous Sacco and Vanzetti trial as a backdrop for discussion. The case involved two Italian immigrants who held anarchist views in the 1920s and…

March 26, 2013 Kevin P. Durkin, partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak at the American Bar Association Section of Litigation Annual Conference to be held in Chicago April 24-26. Durkin will speak on a panel with Dan Webb of Winston & Strawn on Improper Conduct and Statements in Opening and Closing Arguments. Experienced panelists will discuss what to do when opposing counsel makes inflammatory or improper statements at trial. The program…

March 15, 2013 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been invited to speak April 24 at the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation’s “Anatomy of a Trial” during the Section’s Annual Conference in Chicago. Clifford will be joining lawyers from across the country to speak on a number of topics during the day-long program based on the Sacco & Vanzetti trial including case analysis, theory of the case, direct examination,…