Clifford Available to Speak on Crash of Cessna Plane at Palwaukee Airport

ROBERT CLIFFORD, AVIATION ATTORNEY, AVAILABLE TO SPEAK TODAY ON CRASH OF CESSNA AT PALWAUKEE AIRPORT

Robert A. Clifford, a nationally renown aviation attorney, is available to speak to the press about the legal ramifications of the plane crash Monday of the Cessna twin-engine plane that killed all four people aboard. He has a great deal of experience in representing those injured and killed in small plane crashes and corporate jets in the area and around the country. In particular, he represents many flying into and out of Palwaukee Airport and those flying in Cessna aircraft.

Clifford, partner at Clifford Law Offices in Chicago, and lawyers at his firm represented several passengers and a co-pilot in the crash of a small plane at Palwaukee Airport. That case resulted in a $10.45 million verdict. In a separate trial, the passenger in that Gulfstream IV received $13.5 million in a settlement in 2002. The firm also obtained a $6.8 million verdict as a result of the crash of a Piper aircraft in northwest suburban Schaumburg that was recognized as the Verdict of the Week in The National Law Journal. On July 28, 2004, a small plane carrying a private pilot and flight instructor was destroyed on impact near Fox Lake, Illinois. The plane burst into flames, killing both. That flight also had taken off from Palwaukee Municipal Aiorport. Clifford Law Offices represents the pilot. Clifford Law Offices also represents a 56-year-old man who took off on Aug. 5, 1999, from Palwaukee Airport with his 27-year-old daughter when the aircraft crashed in north suburban Grayslake.

Clifford also represents the widow of Bob Collins, Chicago’s popular WGN-AM radio disc jockey who died when the small plane he was piloting was struck by a student pilot as he was landing at Waukegan Airport. Clifford also represents NBC sports commentator Dick Ebersol who was in a corporate jet that crashed after take-off in Telluride, Colorado, on Nov. 28, 2004, following a game. His 14-year-old son died in the crash.

Clifford and his partner, Kevin Durkin, recently were appointed to be a member of the Advisory Board of the International Aviation Law Institute that was inaugurated by the DePaul University College of Law. Also, the Legal Intelligencer, a highly respected legal publication, called Robert Clifford one of the "Who’s Who in Aviation Law" in his handling the litigation involving the 1998 crash of a SwissAir plane in the waters off the coast of Nova Scotia.