As the real estate recovery hobbles along, partners at SSL Law Firm are surprisingly upbeat.
During the worst of the downturn, older San Francisco land use and real estate firms like Cassidy Shimko Dawson & Kawakami and Ellman Burke Hoffman & Johnson folded and big firms have shed lawyers from their real estate departments. By contrast, the 10-year-old real estate-focused SSL boutique has notched its biggest gains. Five lawyers joined the San Francisco firm from Ellman Burke at the start of 2010. Since then, six more have joined from bigger firms.
