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Press Release, 11/16/2009

Robert A. Clifford, nationally renown personal injury attorney in Chicago, has been named Chicago Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year for 2010.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and one of the most respected peer-review publications in the legal profession for the last quarter century, is designating “Lawyers of the Year” in high-profile legal specialities in large legal communities. Only a single lawyer in each area is being honored as “Lawyer of the Year.”

Clifford, who has been on its list for more than two decades, was given the highest honor for 2010 after being designated the 2009 Chicago Personal Injury Litigator of the Year by the organization.

Best Lawyers’ compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current edition is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers.

As this year’s honoree, Clifford received particularly high ratings in its surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for his ability, professionalism and integrity.

Steven Naifeh, Managing Editor of Best Lawyers, said, “We continue to believe – as we have believed for more than 25 years – that recognition of one’s peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession. We would like to congratulate Robert A. Clifford on being selected as the ‘Chicago Best Lawyers Medical Malpractice Lawyer of the Year’ for 2010.”