SAN FRANCISCO — Ralph Baxter made Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe a global operation, but the race to succeed him as chairman came down to two Bay Area partners.

Although Los Angeles finance partner Alan Benjamin and New York litigator James Stengel were also finalists for the job, Menlo Park corporate partner Mitchell Zuklie and San Francisco litigator Walter Brown Jr. emerged as the frontrunners, current and former partners at Orrick told The Recorder. Zuklie now leads the firm’s corporate business unit, and Brown heads the litigation business unit.

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