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Gordon & Rees LLP was founded in San Francisco in 1974 by Stuart Gordon and Donald Rees, both of whom maintain active practices and are active in the life of the firm. In only 35 years, the firm has grown from a small insurance defense firm to a national litigation and business transactions firm with more than 400 lawyers in 17 offices in 11 states, including lawyers admitted in Canada, England and Wales, and Hong Kong.

Gordon & Rees’s continued national growth has been marked by the firm’s rise to #154 on the 2010 AmLaw 200 list of the largest law firms in the U.S. Compiled annually by The American Lawyer, the list has tracked Gordon & Rees’s consistent expansion since 2005 when the firm first appeared on the list at #176. Similarly, Gordon & Rees advanced from #144 to #132 in the National Law Journal's 2009 survey of the largest U.S. law firms. 2009 is the sixth consecutive year Gordon & Rees has advanced in the NLJ survey since first appearing on this list in 2003.

The firm’s primary practice areas are Appellate, Bankruptcy, Business Transactions, Commercial Litigation, Construction, Drug & Medical Device, Labor & Employment, Environmental/Toxic Tort, Health Care, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Tort & Product Liability, Professional Liability Defense, Real Estate, and Tax.


 * Gordon & Rees website