Hanson Bridgett has launched an office in Orange County, California, as Southern California emerges as a hotspot for law firm expansion in 2023.

It’s the sixth office for the California-based Am Law Second Hundred firm, which has an existing presence in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Rafael and Walnut Creek. Given the firm’s more recent push to develop inroads in the southern part of the state, its attorneys expressed a desire to work closer to its clients, according to managing partner Kristina Lawson.