Sean Southard

SAN DIEGO—Myriad factors—including shifting demographics and advances in law-related and other technologies—are causing law firms to rethink their space requirements, Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP partner Sean Southard tells GlobeSt.com.

CGS3, a commercial real estate law firm with a burgeoning practice, has been in an expansion mode since its inception and is rethinking traditional underlying assumptions about law-firm office space. To accommodate its rapidly growing platform in California, the firm recently expanded its San Diego headquarters and relocated and expanded its Los Angeles office.

We sat down with Southard to discuss the evolution of the legal landscape in this country, touching on how myriad factors—including shifting demographics and advances in law-related and other technologies—are causing law firms to rethink office space requirements.

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Carrie Rossenfeld

Carrie Rossenfeld is a reporter for the San Diego and Orange County markets on GlobeSt.com and a contributor to Real Estate Forum. She was a trade-magazine and newsletter editor in New York City before moving to Southern California to become a freelance writer and editor for magazines, books and websites. Rossenfeld has written extensively on topics including commercial real estate, running a medical practice, intellectual-property licensing and giftware. She has edited books about profiting from real estate and has ghostwritten a book about starting a home-based business.