Legal beachhead.Two former O'Melveny & Myers LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol partners have opened the first Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. office of Nixon Peabody Nixon Peabody LLP is one of the largest multipractice law firms in the United States, with offices in seventeen cities and more than seven hundred attorneys collaborating across twenty-five major practice areas. LLP. Richard Jones and Travis Gibbs, both public finance specialists, are the only attorneys in the new office. Jones, who was in the transactions department at O'Melveny, is bond counsel for several California state and local agencies. Gibbs, who was in the tax department, handles municipal finance transactions, such as school district bonds and variable rate financings. Richard Hoffman, managing partner of Nixon Peabody's California offices, said the Los Angeles office would grow to include other practice areas and potentially reach the size of the firm's office in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , which has 88 attorneys. |
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