Skip to Content

CGS3 Earns 2025 Best Law Firm Recognition

November 7, 2024 CGS3 CGS3 Team

For the 15th consecutive year, Best Lawyers – the oldest and most respected peer review research and accolades company in the legal profession– has released the United States Best Law Firm rankings, naming Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) a Metropolitan Tier 1 firm for real estate, and construction law, and litigation-construction and a Metropolitan Tier 2 firm for tax law and litigation-real estate for 2025.

The Best Law Firms research methodology includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.  The 2025 rankings are based on a rigorous evaluation process with a proven methodology that relies on qualitative and quantitative data on legal skillset, achievements and client successes collected through a submission process managed by Best Lawyers.

A firm must have at least one attorney in the current Best Lawyers in America to earn eligibility for the Best Law Firms listing.  Best Lawyers recognizes the top 5% of private practicing lawyers in the United States.  In total, 14 CGS3 partners – Robert J. Bell, Thomas B.  Crosbie, Sean Gaffney, Ray B. Gliner, Priya Huggett, Phillip L. Jelsma, Brian Kintz, Gregory Markow, Steven Otto, Priya Huggett, Sean Southard, Dana I. Schiffman, Craig Swanson and David Swartz – are featured in the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers.

Because of the exacting methodology involved, the annual Best Lawyers ranking is regarded as the industry’s definitive guide to legal excellence.  Over four decades, Best Lawyers has evolved into the leading resource for both lawyers and clients looking for top legal talent.

About Best Law Firms

Debuted in 2010, Best Law Firms® is the most credible rankings of exceptional law firms, rooted in a rigorous, peer-to-peer, industry-driven evaluation.  Achieving a tiered ranking in Best Law Firms signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise.  Ranked firms, presented in three tiers, are recognized on a national and metro-based scale.  Best Law Firm’s time-tested reputation and a future-focused commitment to innovation provides legal professionals with an elevated stature, validation and confidence that comes from being part of, and working with, a Best Law Firms honored practice.  For more information visit https://www.bestlawyers.com.

About Best Lawyers

Since 1983, Best Lawyers has compiled lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting extensive peer-review surveys in which thousands of top lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.  Because attorneys do not pay a fee for the listing, Best Lawyers has gained respect as the country’s most reliable, unbiased source of legal referrals.  In addition to the print version, Best Lawyers in America is posted online at www.BestLawyers.com.

About Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)

CGS3 is a recognized leader among a new generation of commercial real estate law firms with practice areas covering the entire commercial real estate life cycle, including finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts and dispute resolution.  Earning a reputation as one of California’s leading commercial real estate law firms, CGS3 recruits the state’s top real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions.  For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.