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 with deadly consequences for enormous numbers of individuals exposed to them. The three industries involved in these activities have been asbestos manufacturers, tobacco sellers, and opioid purveyors.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, Director of the symposium, offered introductory remarks. Various panels were conducted over the two days among more than two dozen law school faculty including professors Robert Rabin, Stanford Law School, John C.P. Goldberg, Harvard Law School, and Rachel Rothschild, University of Michigan Law School.

Each speaker wrote a thought-intensive article that will appear in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, endowed the tort law and social policy chair in 1994 at DePaul Law School, his alma mater. Since then, it has produced the most-quoted law reviews in courts nationwide on tort topics.

The Clifford Symposium was free and open to the public and offered up to 10.5 hours of general CLE credit.

Other topics over the past quarter century have included “Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID World,” “New Torts,” and “Privacy, Data Theft, and Corporate Responsibility.”

For further information, click here.

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Hosted annually at the DePaul University College of Law, Bob and Clifford Law Offices bring together the best and brightest on a topic of interest to the public and that results in a special law review issue of articles by the academic and judicial participants. For more than 25 years, the firm has cultivated a tremendous collection of expert views and opinions across a broad spectrum of topics.

Past Symposia:
2022: Litigating the Public Good: Punishing Serious Corporate Misconduct
2021: Civil Litigation in a Post-Covid World
2020: The Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here
2019: Rising Stars: A New Generation of Scholars Looks at Civil Justice
2018: Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help
2017: The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Behavior
2016: Privacy, Data Theft and Corporate Responsibility
2015: The Supreme Court, Business and Civil Justice
2014: In Honor of Jack Weinstein
2013: Brave New World: The Changing Face of Litigation and Law Firm Finance
2012: A Celebration of the Thought of Marc Galanter
2011: Festschrift for Robert Rabin
2010: The Limits of Predictability and the Value of Uncertainty
2009: Rising Stars: A New Generation of Scholars Looks as Civil Justice
2008: The Challenge of 2020: Preparing a Civil Justice Reform Agenda for the Coming Decade
2007: Distortions in the Attorney/Client Relationship: Threats to Sound Advice?
2006: Is the Rule of Law Waning in America?
2005: Who Feels Their Pain? The Challenge of Non-Economic Damages in Civil Litigation
2004: Starting Over: Redesigning the Medical Malpractice System
2003: After Disaster: The September 11th Compensation Fund and the Future of Civil Justice
2002: Export Import: American Civil Justice in a Global Context
2001: Smoke Signals: Civil Justice in the Wake of the Tobacco Wars
2000: Civil Litigation and Popular Culture
1999: Judges as Tort Lawmakers
1998: The American Civil Jury: Illusion and Reality
1997: Contingent Fee Financing of Litigation in America
1996: Tort law and the Science of the Twenty-First Century
1995: ADR and Torts: Implications for Practice and Reform

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Academics from around the country will gather for the two-day program to discuss a mix of innovative and traditional topics, focusing on individual harms, public nuisance, health care and medicine, the impact of technological innovation, and matters intimately connected to gender. Among the topics to be discussed are “AI Malpractice,” “The Duty of Climate Care” and “How an Old Tort Became New: The Case of Offensive Battery.”

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, organizer and director of the symposium, will offer introductory remarks along with DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea. Various panels will be conducted over the two days among two dozen law school faculty including Deborah Tuerkheimer, Northwestern School of Law; Molly Brady, Harvard Law School and Douglas Kysar, Yale Law School.

Each speaker writes a thought-intensive article that appears in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. Robert A. Clifford endowed the tort law and social policy chair in 1994 at DePaul Law School, his alma mater. Since then, it has produced the most-quoted law reviews in courts around the country on tort topics.

The Clifford Symposium is free and open to the public and offers up to 10.5 hours of CLE credit. In-person attendance is limited at the DePaul Conference Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., 8th Floor, Chicago. Registration is required and can be made by clicking here.

Other topics over the past quarter century included “Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID World,” “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior” and “Privacy, Data Theft and Corporate Responsibility.”

For further information, contact Nicole Pinkey at npinkey@depaul.edu.

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Two dozen academics and judges from around the country gathered at the downtown Chicago law school for the free 26th annual seminar which is open to all lawyers. Among the speakers are Zachary Clopton, Northwestern University School of Law; Gregory Mark, DePaul University College of Law; and U.S. Federal District Court Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.

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To register for one or both days of the hybrid program, click here.

Academics from around the country will gather for this two-day program to discuss the need for private litigation to confront corporate harms that cost human lives.

Robert A. Clifford, founder, and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices endowed the tort law and social policy chair at DePaul in 1994. DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea will offer introductory remarks to the two-day program.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, organizer, and director of the symposium, will lead the discussion among more than two dozen law school faculty, experts, and national policy scholars including Zachary Clopton, Northwestern University School of Law; Gregory Mark, DePaul University College of Law; and the U.S. Federal District Court Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.

Each speaker writes a thought-intensive article that appears in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. The Clifford Symposium is free and open to the public and offers up to nine hours of continuing legal education credit. The deadline for the required registration is June 2.

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Session I: Bankruptcy

• The Administrative State in Bankruptcy – Jared Ellias, University of California Hastings; George Triantis, Stanford University
• Fake and Real People in Bankruptcy – Melissa Jacoby, University of North Carolina
• Cheap Grace in Bankruptcy Court – Troy McKenzie, New York University
• The Committee Charade in Mass Tort Bankruptcy – Lindsey Simon, University of Georgia

Session II: Corporate Responsibility

• The Great American Double Standard – Honorable Jed Rakoff, United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• The Challenge of Holding Corporations Accountable Through Civil Litigation – Howard Erichson, Fordham University
• “A Force Created”: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Politics of Lawsuit Immunity – Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University
• Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Securities Fraud – James Park, University of California Los Angeles

Session III: Tort Law To The Rescue?

• The Texas Two Step in Bankruptcy: Corporate Abuse in the World of Mass Torts and What Can Be Done About It – Maria Glover, Georgetown University
• Tort Claims for the Coverup of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Private Litigation, Corporate Accountability and Institutional Reform – Timothy Lytton, Georgia State University
• When a Corporation’s Rational Ignorance Causes Harm: Charting a New Role for Tort Law – Wendy Wagner, University of Texas

To register for one or both dates, click here or call 312-362-8372.

Other topics have included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior” and “Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID World.”

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“Litigating the Public Good: Punishing Serious Corporate Misconduct” is the topic of the 2022 28

Academics from around the country will gather for a two-day program to discuss the need for private litigation to confront corporate harms that cost human lives.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, organizer, and director of the symposium, will lead the discussion among more than two dozen law school faculty, experts, and national policy scholars including Zachary Clopton, Northwestern University School of Law; Gregory Mark, DePaul University College of Law; and the U.S. Federal District Court Judge Jed Rakoff of the Southern District of New York.

Robert A. Clifford, founder, and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices endowed the tort law and social policy chair at DePaul in 1994. DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea will offer introductory remarks to the two-day program.

Each speaker writes a thought-intensive article that appears in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. The Clifford Symposium is free and open to the public and offers up to nine hours of continuing legal education credit. The deadline for the required registration is June 2.

Session I: Bankruptcy

• The Administrative State in Bankruptcy – Jared Ellias, University of California Hastings; George Triantis, Stanford University
• Fake and Real People in Bankruptcy – Melissa Jacoby, University of North Carolina
• Cheap Grace in Bankruptcy Court – Troy McKenzie, New York University
• The Committee Charade in Mass Tort Bankruptcy – Lindsey Simon, University of Georgia

Session II: Corporate Responsibility

• The Great American Double Standard – Honorable Jed Rakoff, United States District Court, Southern District of New York
• The Challenge of Holding Corporations Accountable Through Civil Litigation – Howard Erichson, Fordham University
• “A Force Created”: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Politics of Lawsuit Immunity – Myriam Gilles, Yeshiva University
• Shareholder Wealth Maximization and Securities Fraud – James Park, University of California Los Angeles

Session III: Tort Law To The Rescue?

• The Texas Two Step in Bankruptcy: Corporate Abuse in the World of Mass Torts and What Can Be Done About It – Maria Glover, Georgetown University
• Tort Claims for the Coverup of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Private Litigation, Corporate Accountability and Institutional Reform – Timothy Lytton, Georgia State University
• When a Corporation’s Rational Ignorance Causes Harm: Charting a New Role for Tort Law – Wendy Wagner, University of Texas

To register for one or both dates, click here or call 312-362-8372. 

Other topics have included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior” and “Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID World.”

All in-person attendees must comply with DePaul University’s COVID-19 policy, which requires attendees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or have proof of a negative COVID-19 test dated no earlier than 72 hours prior to the program. Documentation will be reviewed at check-in for the event for all guests except DePaul faculty, staff and students.

Masks are encouraged but not required. These rules are subject to change in accordance with public health guidance.

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The annual symposium brings lawyers, judges and academia together via webinar that results in a special law review edition published by the DePaul University College of Law. It has the most cited law reviews in the area of tort law and civil justice in the country.

The 2021 Symposium topic was “Civil Litigation in a Post-COVID World.”

DePaul Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea along with Symposium Chair DePaul Professor Stephan Landsman (top left) also offered their comments Thursday (June 3) on the opening day of the two-day webinar.

“I’m so proud that this program has grown to the level of recognition in the area of tort law around the country,” said Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices who endowed the faculty chair in 1994. “An enormous amount of work and thought goes into these hours of programming, and it is gratifying to know that the legal community is listening and learning.”  Other programs over the years have included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help”. “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior,” and: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior,” and “The Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here?”

Some of the 2021 speakers included Professor Shari Diamond, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; Nora Freeman Engstrom and Robert Rabin, professors at Stanford Law School; Professor Jennifer Robbernnolt at the University of Illinois College of Law, and the Hon. Lorna Schofield, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York. DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman has served as Chair and Director of the symposium for the past 25 years.

For more information, please contact Clifford Law Offices Communications Partner Pamela Sakowicz Menaker at 847-721-0909 (cell).

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Academics from around the country gathered for the two-day program to discuss the mark the pandemic has had on the work of lawyers, courtroom procedures and views on government. They will examine the psychological and procedural effects of the methods COVID produced as well as social safety nets through insurance and the application of tort law.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, Chair and director of the symposium, led the discussion among more than two dozen law school faculty, experts and national policy scholars including Shari Diamond, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; Nora Freeman Engstrom and Robert Rabin, Stanford Law School; Jennifer Robbernnolt, University of Illinois College of Law; Sierra Stubbs and John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School; and the Hon. Lorna Schofield, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices, offered introductory remarks at the 27th Annual Clifford Tort Symposium on Tort Law and Social Policy. DePaul Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea along with Symposium Chair DePaul Professor Stephan Landsman (top left) also offered their comments Thursday (June 3) on the opening day of the two-day webinar.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices who endowed the Tort Law and Social Policy Chair in 1994 at DePaul, offered introductory remarks along with DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea.

Other topics over the past quarter-century included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior”, and “The Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?”

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Academics from around the country have gathered for a two-day program to discuss the mark that the pandemic has had on the work of lawyers, courtroom procedures, and views on government. They will examine the psychological and procedural effects of the methods COVID produced as well as social safety nets through insurance and the application of tort law.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, organizer, and director of the symposium, will lead the discussion among more than two dozen law school faculty, experts, and national policy scholars including Shari Diamond, Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law; Nora Freeman Engstrom and Robert Rabin, Stanford Law School; Jennifer Robbernnolt, University of Illinois College of Law; Sierra Stubbs and John Fabian Witt, Yale Law School; and the Hon. Lorna Schofield, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices who endowed the tort law and social policy chair in 1994 at DePaul, will offer introductory remarks along with DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea.

Each speaker writes a thought-intensive article that appears in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. The Clifford Symposium is free and open to the public and offers up to nine hours of CLE credit. Registration is required.

To register for one or both dates go here or call 312-362-8372.

Other topics over the past quarter-century included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior” and “The Opioid Crisis: Where Do We Go from Here?”

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The 2-day meeting will be held as an online virtual program beginning May 28, 2020. The program will be available for viewing and CLE credit in modules that include “Corporate Misconduct in the Drug Industry” and “Using Litigation to Effectively Abate Opioid Health Harms.”

Academics from around the country will gather for the two-day program to discuss how the multi-district litigation process works with mass torts and solutions including public nuisance and criminal sanctions. The topic is particularly timely given the coronavirus that impacts world health issues and how a nation recovers.

DePaul Law School Professor Stephan Landsman, organizer and director of the symposium, will lead the discussion among more than two dozen law school faculty, medical experts and national policy scholars including Kenneth Feinberg who has served as mediator on several high-profile international crises including serving as Special Master of the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Also attending are Northwestern University School of Law Professor Zachary Clopton, Yale University Law School Professor Abbe Gluck and Harvard University Law Professor William Rubenstein.

Robert A. Clifford, founder and senior partner of Clifford Law Offices who endowed the tort law and social policy chair in 1994 at DePaul, will offer introductory remarks along with DePaul Law School Dean Jennifer Rosato Perea.

Each speaker writes a thought-intensive article that appears in a special edition of the DePaul University School of Law Review. The virtual Clifford Symposium is free and open to the public and offers up to seven hours of CLE credit. Registration is required; the deadline is May 27th.

To register go to https://2020clifford.eventbrite.com or call 312-362-8372. 

Other topics over the past 25 year included “Patient Safety: How Might the Law Help?”, “The Impact of Dark Money on Judicial Elections and Judicial Behavior” and “Privacy, Data Theft and Corporate Responsibility.”

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