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CGS3 Nominated For LABJ’s 2025 Disruptor Awards
Awards Ceremony set for Dec. 4 in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (November 14, 2025) – Continuing to gain recognition as a legal industry trailblazer, Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) has been nominated for the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Disruptors Award – an honor celebrating the region’s most innovative companies.
Held this year on December 4th at the Biltmore Los Angeles, each year LABJ recognizes organizations that embrace innovation, challenge convention, and drive meaningful transformation across industries. According to the publication, “From startups revolutionizing traditional markets to established enterprises pioneering groundbreaking technologies, the Disruptors Awards honor teams and organizations that demonstrate unparalleled creativity, resilience, and ingenuity in the pursuit of excellence.”
CGS3 founding partner Sean Southard says the nomination affirms his firm’s commitment to reshaping the business of law. “Our firm was launched with the primary focus of re-thinking the way legal services are delivered,” he says.
Founded in 2013 by five longtime “Big Law” partners – Tom Crosbie, Ray Gliner, Dana Schiffman, Sean Southard, and Craig Swanson – CGS3 set out to redefine the commercial real estate law firm model. Covering the full real estate life cycle – finance, acquisition/disposition, life sciences, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts, and dispute resolution – the firm was built on a bold vision: to be Different by Design. The founders shared a clear belief: clients deserved a more responsive, efficient, pragmatic, and collaborative legal experience.
With offices in San Diego and Los Angeles, CGS3 is now a recognized leader among California’s new generation of commercial real estate law firms. Known for its deep expertise across all stages of the real estate life cycle, the firm has earned a reputation for delivering results that rival – and often surpass – those of much larger firms. Its innovative culture and client-first approach have attracted top legal talent from premier national firms and senior in-house positions nationwide.
Over the past twelve years, the firm has been instrumental in many of the region’s highest-profile commercial real estate transactions – from record-setting leasing deals in retail, office, and life sciences to complex acquisitions, sales, and high-stakes litigation. With a strong track record and an unwavering focus on client success, CGS3 continues to raise the standard for what a modern real estate law firm can be.
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, construction & 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 some of 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.