Colin Dunn works on a number of complex, high-profile cases at Clifford Law Offices, particularly in the area of aviation law.  Colin is involved in the litigation stemming from the crash of Continental Connection Colgan Air Flight 3407 that crashed in Buffalo, New York, as well as litigation stemming from the crash of Comair Flight 5191 in Lexington, Kentucky.  Mr. Dunn was very active in litigating the case involving the Southwest Airlines jet that skidded off the runway at Midway Airport and crashed into the car of a family, killing their little boy in the back seat.  He is working on a number of other cases including a mid-air collision of two small planes in Wyoming and another case involving a hard landing of a commercial jet on Sept. 22, 2008, at O’Hare Airport that caused a passenger to suffer neck herniation which required surgery.  He also represents a 78-year-old who fell while exiting an American Airlines flight and broke his shoulder.

In addition to aviation cases, Colin has worked on a number of other cases involving various personal injury and wrongful death cases, including an explosion at Abbott Labs in North Chicago that seriously injured two workers and the Cook County Administration Building fire, a tragedy that killed many and injured scores of others which ended in a $100 million settlement for the victims and their families. He has also argued several cases before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and the First District Appellate Court of Illinois. In recognition for his outstanding legal work, Colin was named to Law Bulletin Publishing Company’s 2010 “40 under 40” attorney list recognizing Illinois’s top up and coming lawyers in 2010 and has been recognized as a Rising Star annually since 2009.

Prior to joining Clifford Law Offices, Colin served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office under Richard Devine.  He also was the Senior Law Clerk for the Honorable Justice Patrick J. Quinn, Presiding Justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, First District, Fourth Division. During law school, he worked for the Honorable Justice Ann Williams of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals as well as for the Honorable Judge Ronald Guzman of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.

Colin obtained his law degree from Loyola University School of Law in Chicago, graduating magna cum laude. He was eighth in his class of 169 and was a member of the Law Journal. He tutored others in civil procedure and even today he still tries to mentor others through teaching Appellate Advocacy at Loyola as well as Private International Aviation Law at DePaul University College of Law. Colin also has written numerous articles for several national publications and is a columnist for the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, the nation's oldest daily legal publication.