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.