About Clifford Horwitz

Clifford W. Horwitz is the principal partner and lead trial attorney at Horwitz, Horwitz & Associates, where he has practiced for more than 40 years. A third-generation member of the firm, Cliff focuses on catastrophic personal injury cases involving construction accidents, traumatic brain injuries, spinal injuries, product liability, premises liability, and wrongful death. He has won every case taken to trial since 1995, with more than 25% of his jury verdicts representing record-setting results in Illinois.

His $64 million verdict in Bayer v. Panduit Corporation (2012) remains the highest personal injury verdict in Illinois history for an individual. He is a Top 100 Illinois Super Lawyer, a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum, and carries an Avvo rating of 10.0 (Superb). He is a graduate of the University of Florida (B.A., summa cum laude, 1981) and Loyola University Chicago School of Law (J.D., 1984).

Proven verdicts and settlements

A Cook County jury awarded $64 million to Ronald Bayer, a union ironworker paralyzed from the neck down after falling 15 feet at a Panduit Corp. warehouse construction site in DeKalb, Illinois, at the time the largest verdict ever returned for a quadriplegic in Illinois.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2012Workplace InjuryRead the full story →
$32 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $32 million to truck driver Stephanie Johnson, who developed Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after slipping on oil at an ExxonMobil facility, in what the Jury Verdict Reporter recorded as the largest CRPS verdict in Illinois history.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2025Slip & FallRead the full story →
$10 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $10 million to a dentist who developed bilateral Complex Regional Pain Syndrome after a delivery worker's overloaded hand truck struck her leg at a Lincolnwood Walgreens in 2012, setting what the Illinois Jury Verdict Reporter confirmed as the largest CRPS injury verdict in state history at the time.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2016Premises LiabilityRead the full story →
$5.75 millionVerdict

A Cook County jury awarded $5,745,600 to Local 10 journeyman carpenter Gary Markovich after a superintendent's drill bit wrapped his ulnar nerve during work at Northwestern Prentice Women's Hospital, producing stage III CRPS that ended his career, at the time the largest non-amputation hand-injury verdict in Illinois history.

Cook County Circuit Court, Illinois · 2014Workplace InjuryRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

Loyola University Chicago School of Law
J.D., 1984
University of Florida
Undergraduate, 1981

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Illinois, admitted 1984

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Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.