Awards & Recognitions

America’s Elite Trial Lawyers September 11, 2014 Clifford Law Offices is proud to announce that it was named among The National Law Journal’s inaugural list of “America’s Elite Trial Lawyers.” In naming the top 50 plaintiffs’ firms in the country, The National Law Journal wrote that it wanted to recognize the efforts of trial lawyers who worked in the past year to obtain verdicts yielding more than $10 billion in recoveries. “The National Law Journal…

June 30, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, has been appointed by the President of the American Bar Association (ABA) to Chair a newly-created task force that will deal with policies, strategies and tactics for the recruitment and retention of new members. James R. Silkenat, ABA President from New York, appointed Clifford as Chair of the Task Force to Examine Association Policies Impacting Recruitment and Retention of Law Students and Young…

May 14, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, received the 2014 American Inns of Court Foundation Professionalism Award for the Seventh Circuit Monday night at the Radisson Blu hotel in Chicago to a packed crowd of more than 500 lawyers and judges. Clifford, who was President of the Chicago Inn of Court from 1994-95, was presented with the award at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference by Seventh Circuit Judge Joel Flaum….

This past March, Robert A. Clifford was recognized as one of Chicago Magazine’s Top 100 Most Powerful Chicagoans for 2014. The third annual “The Power 100″ list ranks based on influence, ability, and clout; Clifford placed #76. This recognition appeared in the March 2014 issue of Chicago Magazine and marks the second time in a row he has been acknowledged as one of the most powerful Chicagoans. According to Chicago Magazine, in order to be…

April 30, 2014 Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, will receive the 2014 American Inns of Court Professionalism Award for the Seventh Circuit. Clifford, who was President of the Chicago Inn of Court from 1994-95, will be presented with the award at the Seventh Circuit Judicial Conference in Chicago on May 12. He was selected from a national panel of members of the American Inns of Court Awards Committee that included Justices…

March 28, 2014 Martindale-Hubbell has announced that Robert A. Clifford, senior partner at Clifford Law Offices, is among Chicago’s Top Rated Lawyers of 2014. Five other partners at the firm also have achieved that status. This highly competitive award means that he has an AV Preeminent rating, which is the highest rating given by the peer review group. Martindale-Hubbell “helps buyers of legal services to identify, evaluate and select the most appropriate lawyer for a…

Chicago Magazine produces an annual list of 100 people with the most influence and power in the city, and Robert A. Clifford is on that list again for 2014. Moving up a spot from last year to 76th place on this prestigious list that includes a U.S. Senator, venture capitalist billionaires and, of course, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago’s mayor. To read the full list, click here.

Robert Clifford, senior and founding partner of Clifford Law Offices in downtown Chicago, was named the Number One attorney in the state of Illinois for the sixth year in a row by Illinois Super Lawyers. The annual list of Illinois’ Top Ten attorneys, as nominated by their peers, was first created and published by the third-party research group Super Lawyers in 2005. Mr. Clifford has been in the Top Ten, actually the Top Three, for…

January 10, 2014 Clifford Law Offices of Chicago, IL has been honored with a recognition by U.S. News & World Report in its selection of “Best Law Firms 2014 – Illinois.” Chicago, IL (PR Newswire) December 21, 2013– Announcing a special recognition appearing in the November, 2013 issue of U.S. News & World Report published by U.S. News & World Report, Inc.. Clifford Law Offices was selected for the following honor: “Best Law Firms 2014…