National Law Firm Foley & Mansfield Expands West Coast Presence

MINNEAPOLIS, MN (March 31, 2007) The national litigation firm of Foley & Mansfield is expanding its presence in the San Francisco region with the addition of partners Douglas G. Wah and J. Scott Wood as well as 10 associates from the Emeryville firm of Bishop Barry Howe Haney & Ryder.  They will all join the firm as of today.     

To accommodate this significant growth, the firm is also moving from its current office location in Walnut Creek to Oakland City Center.  The new lease in the Oakland City Center is for 24,000 sq ft while the firm’s former space was approximately 7,000 sq ft.  Current Foley & Mansfield partners Lori Cataldo and Eric Sun as well as the rest of the employees from Foley & Mansfield’s Walnut Creek office will also relocate to 1111 Broadway, 10^th Floor, Oakland, CA 94607 in the Oakland City Center effective April 1, 2007.

The lease was turned around very quickly.  In February the firm began looking at space and the lease was signed on March 1.  The firm has been working diligently to make this transition seamless.  “Our goal is to be a significant national player so acting quickly to expand and grow will not be unusual in our future.  We have to get good at merging cultures and integrating the best practices which will strengthen our whole firm,” states Gary Sharp, one of the partners who originally helped to open the San Francisco Foley & Mansfield office in 2001.  Sharp is currently the managing partner of the firm’s Detroit office and was instrumental in this West Coast expansion.