Tracy A. Brammeier

CHICAGO, IL (May 2021) – Four lawyers from Clifford Law Offices have been included as Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar by The National Law Journal. This is the first year that The National Law Journal is giving special recognition to this “select group of young lawyers under age 40 who are up-and-comers in the plaintiffs bar.” The Clifford lawyers recognized are: Sarah F. King (Partner) Tracy A. Brammeier (Associate) Charles R. Haskins (Associate) Marta…

The Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association will introduce Tracy Brammeier as their next Chair as well as a new Executive Council at the YLS Annual Meeting, which will be held virtually on June 2, 2021. Brammeier, an attorney at Clifford Law Offices, P.C., focuses on aviation, transportation, premises, and construction liability in addition to other areas of personal injury and wrongful death litigation. She has been involved in the YLS as Public…

Sarah F. King has been selected to serve as Illinois Trial Lawyers Association’s (ITLA) Secretary in 2021-2022.   King has been involved with the organization for many years. She is a co-founder of the Women’s Caucus and currently serves as Parliamentarian for 2020-2021. Attorneys Tracy A. Brammeier, Bradley M. Cosgrove, Kevin P. Durkin, Charles Haskins and Craig J. Squillace have been elected as members of the Board of Managers. Keith A. Hebeisen currently serves as…

CHICAGO, IL (January 2021) – Seventeen attorneys from Clifford Law Offices have been selected to the 2021 Super Lawyers List. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and…

By John V. Kalantzis and Tracy A. Brammeier The crashes of Lion Air flight JT610 in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines flight ET302 in March 2019, both Boeing 737 MAX planes, were initiated by a single malfunctioning sensor, which led to the pilots fighting a new flight control system that forced the planes into a deadly nosedive minutes after takeoff causing the deaths of 346 people. That system utilized software called the Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation…