Clifford's firm specializes in "personal injury, medical malpractice, mass torts, consumer and health care fraud, product liability, and aviation and transportation disasters.
Around the same time, U.S. District Judge David Herndon certified a class action lawsuit against State Farm for $9 billion related to Karmeier's 2004 election.
That judgment stemmed from a trial in Williamson County that found State Farm liable for supplying inferior car parts for crash repairs.
Ever since that decision, lawyers have claimed that both State Farm and Philip Morris funneled cash through various channels in order to conceal contributions to Karmeier's 2004 campaign.
[11] Plaintiff's attorneys who sued Philip Morris lost their case and twice tried unsuccessfully to reverse their loss at the Illinois Supreme Court, using allegations of illegal campaign contributions to Karmeier.