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Law Practice

May 10, 2011

Wilson Sonsini Looks to Next 50 Years

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC turned 50 this year - it was founded in 1961 as McCloskey, Wilson & Mosher - and in that time, the firm pioneered and sustained a novel law firm business model. Now it's figuring out what's next.


By Jill Redhage


Daily Journal Staff Writer


PALO ALTO - On a Thursday in March, Larry Sonsini worked out on his rowing machine while listening to the CNN morning news. The lean, physically fit 70-year-old perked up at a news item about Stanford University's proposal to build a billion-dollar research and engineering campus in New York. Mayor Michael Bloomberg had solicited proposals for how the city could diversify its economy by stimulating technolo...

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