SoCal law firm opens in Oakland
A southern California law firm is expanding its Bay Area presence with the hire of 12 attorneys in Oakland from McDonough Holland & Allen P.C., which is disbanding.
Burke Williams & Sorensen LLP said it will bring on the 12 Oakland lawyers who specialize in public law, which involves counseling cities, counties or taxpayer-funded districts.
Burke Williams will also hire one public law attorney from San Francisco’s Hanson Bridgett LLP, who will join the new attorneys in Oakland.
The hires are effective Sept. 1 and account for nearly all of the lawyers in McDonough’s Oakland office.
McDonough, based in Sacramento, has been beset by an exodus of lawyers. The firm’s revenue slumped as transactional and litigation cases declined last year. Firm managers said they will shut down the firm by this fall.
The hires give Burke Williams & Sorensen 25 lawyers in the Bay Area. The firm opened a Menlo Park office two years ago. That location has 9 lawyers.
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