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Two CGS3 Partners Honored as Among San Diego’s Best Attorneys
Tom Crosbie and Sean Gaffney Lauded as Best Attorneys
Adding to an impressive list of accolades, Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson (CGS3) partners Thomas Crosbie and Sean Gaffney have been named two of San Diego’s Best Attorneys for 2025 by SD Metro, a San Diego business publication with a 37-year history.
According to the publication, this annual recognition celebrates leading attorneys in San Diego County. The honorees will be featured in SD Metro’s March issue.
“Tom and Sean are core members of our exceptional legal team – Tom is an expert in structuring and negotiating complicated commercial real estate transactions and corporate matters, while Sean is a seasoned litigator that employs “street smarts” to keep our clients out of court while aggressively protecting their interests,” said CGS3 founding partner Sean Southard. “Both offer an exemplary testament to our firm’s ongoing growth and success and are well deserving of this latest honor.”
A CGS3 founding partner, Crosbie has many years of experience in a handling a broad variety of commercial real estate areas, including acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing and construction in connection with commercial, residential, industrial, retail, and mixed-use projects for local, regional and national real estate developers and investors. He also routinely represents clients in connection with all aspects of ground-up development and redevelopment projects, including drafting and negotiating development agreements, CC&Rs, REAs, construction contracts and design contracts for commercial, industrial, multi-family residential and mixed-use projects. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University and a J.D. from Northwestern University.
A partner with CGS3 and member of the firm’s litigation practice, Gaffney represents real estate investors, developers, owners, brokers, contractors, landlords and tenants in all phases of dispute resolution. His expertise spans the breadth of California real estate law, including claims arising from failed real estate transactions and development projects; landlord/tenant disputes; corporate, partnership and LLC governance disputes; construction and property management insurance coverage disputes; construction defect claims; and eminent domain and public/government construction claims. An active member of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, he holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of San Diego (USD) and a J.D. from the University of San Francisco School of Law.
About Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson LLP (CGS3)
CGS3 is a recognized leader among a new generation of commercial real estate law firms with practice areas covering the entire commercial real estate life cycle, including finance, acquisition/disposition, entity formation, tax, development, land use, leasing, distressed asset workouts and dispute resolution. Earning a reputation as one of California’s leading commercial real estate law firms, CGS3 recruits the state’s top real estate attorneys from both large corporate firms and senior in-house positions. For more information, visit http://www.cgs3.com.