Clifford Horwitz
Horwitz Horwitz & Associates 25 E Washington St Ste 900 Chicago, IL 60602-1716 Practice Area(s): Personal Injury, Catastrophic Injuries call (312) 372-8822 visit website
Biographical Information
As Principal Partner and lead trial lawyer of Horwitz Horwitz & Associates, Cliff has devoted his entire career to achieving justice for those who have been victimized by corporate negligence. He has won numerous jury verdicts amounting to many hundreds of millions of dollars in awards for his clients. In addition to securing the highest personal injury jury verdict of all time in Illinois, over 25% of his verdicts have been record-setting. Cliff engages in cases that focus primarily on:
- Personal injury
- Construction injury
- Back Injury
- Spine Injury
- Brain Injury
- Injuries to the neck, knees and shoulders
- Falling protection, crane, scaffold, iron beams
- Automobile Accidents
- Truck Accidents
- Motorcycle accidents
- Wrongful death
- Airplane/Aviation
- Railroad injuries
- Riverboat & Maritime Injuries
- Product liability
- General negligence (carelessness)
- Premises liability
Admission Dates & Jurisdictions
- Illinois, 1984
- U.S. District Court, Northern and Central Districts of Illinois
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Education
- Loyola University School of Law (J.D., 1984)
- University of Florida (B.A., 1981)
Honors & Awards
- Selected by peers as a 2013, 2014, 2015 ,2016, and 2017 Leading Lawyer, a distinction earned by the top 5 percent of lawyers in Illinois
- Selected as a Top 100 Trial Lawyer in the United States of America by the National Trial Lawyers.
- Cliff is recognized by Super Lawyers as an “Illinois Super Lawyer.” Super Lawyers is a listing of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
- The Cook County Jury Verdict Reporter has identified that one quarter of Cliff’s jury verdicts have been record-setting verdicts.
- Recipient of the Jury Verdict Reporter Trial Lawyer Excellence Awards
- Cliff has also received numerous awards due to the time he has spent contributing to various charities and the funds he has created for disabled persons.
- Honorary society of Phi Kappa Phi.
- AVVO Rating of 10 out of 10
- Invited Member, American Association for Justice
- Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum
- Member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Cliff has also received recommendations of numerous construction union officials throughout the state of Illinois to their members and the repeated written and verbal praise from Cliff’s clients who have seen just how much of his life he devotes to their cases.
Professional Associations
- Association of Trial Lawyers of America
- Illinois Trial Lawyers Association
- Illinois State Bar Association
- Chicago Bar Association
- Will County Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission
- National Institute of Trial Advocacy
Press
Cliff has published more than 100 articles in various newspapers and has spoken to a wide variety of union members and other groups about their legal rights. In addition, he has been interviewed on live television news networks like WGN for commentary on various legal cases.
Verdicts & Settlements
- Clifford Horwitz won the largest personal injury verdict in Illinois history, click to read more.
- Clifford Horwitz won the largest CRPS injury verdict in Illinois history.
- Clifford Horwitz won the largest adult male shoulder injury verdict in Illinois history.
- Clifford Horwitz won the largest non-amputation hand injury in Illinois history.