Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Craig, like many attorneys at Clifford Law Offices, cut his teeth as a clerk at the firm. He has worked on claims due to medical negligence, product liability, transportation litigation and municipal liability. He was part of the Clifford Law Offices team that reached a settlement with a major automobile manufacturing company, a tire dealership and an automobile dealership involving the rollover of a sport utility vehicle that severely injured six passengers. He also was part of the team that obtained an $11 million settlement for an insurance executive who was killed in a small airplane crash. In 2000, Craig contributed to the writing a chapter for the Illinois Trial Lawyers’ Product Liability/Premises Liability Seminar on "Motor Vehicle Cases," a reference tool used by lawyers across the state.

Craig carries a caseload that involves all areas of personal injury work from the wrongful deaths of those killed because of a lack of barriers on Illinois' highways to those hurt on unsafe premises to construction accidents as well as many vehicular accidents. He tried the case of a young woman who was hurt while riding a bus that lost control and hit an embankment in suburban Mount Prospect. He was the lead attorney in obtaining settlements for a number of families who had their homes contaminated by mercury. He also is working on the case of a teenager from Downers Grove who was an innocent passenger in the back seat of a car when a bus struck him, causing severe traumatic brain injury and requiring round-the-clock care for the rest of his life.

Craig is a hard working, bright, young attorney with whom everyone enjoys working. He sits on the Chicago Bar Association Judicial Evaluation Committee and is Vice-Chair of the Tort Litigation Section for the Young Lawyers Section. He is a quick study on numerous issues and is willing to put in the work necessary on a case to ensure that it is fully prepared for trial. Clifford Law Offices is proud Craig Squillace is an attorney at the firm.

Areas of Practice

• Construction Liability
• Personal Injury
• Transportation Liability

West Practice Categories

Construction Law, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Transportation Law

Bar Admissions

• Illinois

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Chicago Bar Association
• American Bar Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• American Association for Justice

Classes and Seminars

• Contributed, "Motor Vehicle Cases", Illinois Trial Lawyers' Product Liability/Premises Liability Seminar

Education

• John Marshall Law School, Chicago, Illinois
• Illinois State University
  Bachelor of Science
  Honors: Vice President of College Democrats
  Major: Political Science
  Major: Public Relations

Address

120 N. LaSalle Street,
31st Floor
Chicago, IL 60602

Phones

(312) 899-9090
(800) 899-0410 (Toll Free)

Faxes

(312) 251-1160

Emails

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Websites

http://www.cliffordlaw.com