Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher recently relocated its Palo Alto office from an office park to downtown. Courtesy photo 'Literally Nothing Walkable': Why Gibson Dunn Moved to Downtown Palo Alto
The firm left an office park on Page Mill Road in search of a location near the homes of some attorneys and within several blocks of a train for others.
February 20, 2024 at 09:00 AM
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What You Need to Know
- Last fall, Gibson Dunn moved into a new location in downtown Palo Alto, uprooting its regional base from an office park south of Stanford.
- In a test case for the firm, Gibson Dunn sought a walkable setting that encouraged informal mentoring and use of public transportation.
- In addition to young lawyers, venture capital clients are also migrating to urban areas from office parks, partner in charge Michael Celio said.
If you're a Silicon Valley venture capitalist looking for a lawyer, Page Mill Road isn't a bad place to start. It bisects the valley to the south of Stanford's campus and has served as a hub for Bay Area powerhouses and Big Law interlopers that wanted to cozy up to their start-up clientele since the 1970s. Today, a 1.5-mile office park strip contains the offices of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Morrison Foerster, Perkins Coie, Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Sidley Austin and others.
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher used to call Page Mill Road its Bay Area home; the firm opened its office there in 1979. But in October, Gibson Dunn moved to a mixed use retail/commercial building in downtown Palo Alto, trading its former office park digs for a location down the block from Starbucks, across the street from a Keen hiking boots shop and a three block walk from the town's Caltrain high speed rail stop.
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