Current Employment Position(s)

Associate

Lawyer Overview

Mary Sweeney is petite in frame, but a giant in civil litigation. Her professionalism is unparalleled having been assigned some of the most complex personal injury and wrongful death cases in the nation. Prior to joining Clifford Laws Offices, Mary worked on the aviation crash case involving professional golfer Payne Stewart. The Learjet in which he was traveling nosedived into a remote area of South Dakota in 1999. She also worked on behalf of numerous families who lost loved ones in the 9/11 tragedy, walking them through the difficult process of recovery from the Victims Compensation Fund set up by Congress.

It is her sensitive, empathetic approach to clients that has led her to work in the area of medical malpractice at Clifford Law Offices. She pores over massive stacks of complex documents, sorting out numerous parties and a trail of negligence that has left families devastated. Always kind, her soft-spoken approach is a source of comfort for victims of negligent conduct as well as for everyone at the firm who lives under the stress and deadlines of these cases. Mary works tirelessly preparing the cases for trial as if each were her only one. She is disciplined, closing her door to focus on every detail, nothing every twist and turn of the patient’s rocky road with hospital and medical personnel.

Mary was schooled on the West Coast, having graduated with a major in political science With Great Distinction from the University of California at Berkeley. She went on to receive her law degree from the University of California's Hastings College of Law. She has practiced for more than 25 years in the field of medical malpractice, product liability and toxic tort cases, having begun her practice in insurance defense - seeing the picture from a different angle.

Mary Sweeney is a fine addition to Clifford Law Offices where her demeanor, her work ethic and her serious approach to her job is another mark of distinction on her distinguished career as well as on the profession.

Areas of Practice

• Medical and Hospital Negligence
• Personal Injury

West Practice Categories

Health & Health Care Law, Hospital Law, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Medical Malpractice

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1980

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association
• Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
• Illinois State Bar Association
• California State Bar Association

Classes and Seminars

• "The Presentation of Damage Issues in a High Profile Case", Journal of Air Law and Commerce, 2006 - Present

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California, 1978
  Juris Doctor
• University of California, Berkeley, California, June, 1975
  A.B.
  Honors: With Great Distinction
  Major: Political Science

Published Works

• Punitive Damages "What Law Applies,", Personal Injury Deskbook, 1982
• "Comments Concerning Problems Relating to Conflicts of Law", Trial Lawyers Guide, 1982

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