This is the property of the Daily Journal Corporation and fully protected by copyright. It is made available only to Daily Journal subscribers for personal or collaborative purposes and may not be distributed, reproduced, modified, stored or transferred without written permission. Please click "Reprint" to order presentation-ready copies to distribute to clients or use in commercial marketing materials or for permission to post on a website. and copyright (showing year of publication) at the bottom.
Subscribe to the Daily Journal for access to Daily Appellate Reports, Verdicts, Judicial Profiles and more...

Law Practice

Sep. 21, 2013

Gordon & Rees pulls off debt-free expansion

The firm opened nine offices since 2012, all self-financed. Some caution the strategy can be too much of a drag on partner profits.


By David Ruiz


Daily Journal Staff Writer


SAN FRANCISCO - Dion N. Cominos doesn't trust the idea of taking on debt. "Every financial crisis that has ever happened has been born of leverage," says Cominos, who has led San Francisco-based Gordon & Rees LLP since 2006. "It's a toxic thing." Originally a small insurance defense firm started in 1974, Gordon & Rees now has national litigation and business transactional pract...

To continue reading, please subscribe.
For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
Receive unlimited article access and full access to our archives,
Daily Appellate Report, award winning columns, and our
Verdicts and Settlements.
Or
$795 for an entire year!

Or access this article for $45
(Purchase provides 7-day access to this article. Printing, posting or downloading is not allowed.)

Already a subscriber?

Enewsletter Sign-up