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Seventeen CGS Attorneys Featured in the 2027 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America

August 20, 2026 Alison R. Pappas, Amelia D. Sanchez, Brian L. Kintz, Craig D. Swanson, Dana I. Schiffman, David L. Dick, David A. Swartz, Gregory S. Markow, Phil L. Jelsma, Priya Huggett, Ray B. Gliner, Sean M. Gaffney, Salvatore N. Padula, Sean W. Southard, Steven E. Otto, Tom B. Crosbie, Ulrick T. Matsunaga CGS3 Team

Fifteen Partners Named ”Best Lawyers”

Two Associates Recognized as “Ones to Watch”

SAN DIEGO (August 19, 2026) – Seventeen Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) attorneys have been recognized in the 2027 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, a prestigious national ranking of attorneys selected through an exhaustive annual peer-review process. The honors include 15 partners named as Best Lawyers and 2 associates recognized as “Ones to Watch.”

Widely regarded as one of the legal industry’s most prestigious recognitions, Best Lawyers is based exclusively on an extensive annual peer-review process in which attorneys evaluate the professional abilities of their peers within specific practice areas and geographic regions.

The 15 CGS3 partners recognized in The Best Lawyers in America are:  Alison Pappas, Amelia Sanchez, Brian Kintz, Craig Swanson, Dana Schiffman, David Dick, David Swartz, Greg Markow, Phil Jelsma, Priya Huggett, Ray Gliner, Sean Gaffney, Sean Southard, Steven Otto, and Tom Crosbie.  Associates Ulrick Matsunaga and Sal Padula have been recognized in Best Lawyers: “Ones to Watch in America.”

CGS3 attorneys have been recognized by Best Lawyers for many years, reflecting the firm’s depth of experience across California’s commercial real estate industry.

In the 2027 edition, Jelsma is featured under Tax Law and Corporate Law; Crosbie, Dick, Gliner, Huggett, Kintz, Otto, Pappas, Sanchez, Schiffman, Southard, Swanson and Swartz are all ranked under Real Estate Law; Gaffney has been recognized in the Real Estate Law, Construction Litigation and Real Estate Litigation categories and Markow is honored for Commercial Litigation, Construction Litigation, Real Estate Litigation, and Real Estate Law.  In the “Ones to Watch” edition, Matsunaga is featured under Real Estate Law and Padula under Construction Litigation and Real Estate Litigation.

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, construction and 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.

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