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SAN DIEGO (Nov. 23, 2020) – Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) partner Marjorie J. Burchetthas been recognized as a finalist in the San Diego Business Journal’s “Business Women of the Year Awards” for 2020.

Each year, the San Diego Business Journal recognizes dynamic women business leaders who have contributed significantly to San Diego’s workplaces and communities, spotlighting both finalists and winners.

A long-recognized San Diego attorney, Burchett is active both professionally and in the community.

She has extensive expertise in mixed use, urban infill, master planned communities and condominium developments – all areas which are experiencing robust growth in San Diego County – and has specialized in subdivision processing with the California Department of Real Estate.

Previously with a partner with Withers Bergman LLP, she began her legal career at Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps, where she became a partner. She continued as a partner when Luce merged with McKenna Long & Aldridge and when McKenna merged with Dentons US LLP.

Additionally, she is an active community leader – serving on multiple boards and committees, among them the YMCA San Diego Camps board of management, facilities/capital committee and Real Estate Task Force; the San Diego and California Building Industry Association, DRE committees; San Diego County Bar Association, Real Property Law Section and Bar Foundation, the Downtown San Diego Partnership, board of directors and co-chair of Women of the Partnership; and Lawyers Club San Diego. She also contributes her time each summer to Rancho Genesis, a camp for orphans in Ensenada, Mexico and serves on the Advisory Board of Genesis International Orphanage Foundation, its U.S. non-profit fundraising entity.

Earlier this year, she was installed as a member of Lambda Alpha International (LAI) – a global professional society devoted to the advancement of land economics.