About Bill Clements

Chicago's Most-Feared Attorney

When trial attorney Bob Clifford was a young kid growing up at 121st and Laflin on the Far South Side, the adults and older kids of that Mudville neighborhood used to give him a quarter just to shut up.   “I always knew I had high verbal skills” is the way Clifford puts it now, with a laugh.   Those who oppose him in the courtroom are paying a hell of a lot more than a quarter these days to shut Bob Clifford up.   The firm he founded in 1984 — Clifford Law Offices — now counts 25 …