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Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP Elevates Five Attorneys to Income Partners

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is pleased to announce that the following firm attorneys have been elevated to income partners: Rachel E. Balchum, Danica J. Brustkern, Gina N. Giovacchini, Leila Moshref-Danesh, and N. Richard Shreiba.

Burke Managing Partner John J. Welsh highlighted, “Burke is very pleased to recognize the professional achievements of these five outstanding attorneys. We continue to strengthen the firm’s capacity to deliver the highest quality legal services to all Burke clients.”

Rachel Balchum is a member of Burke’s Employment Law & Litigation, Labor Relations, Litigation, and Workplace Investigations practices.

Danica Brustkern is a member of the firm’s Litigation practice.

Gina Giovacchini is a member of Burke’s Eminent Domain, Inverse Condemnation, Litigation, Public Law, and Tort Claims & Products Liability practices.

Leila Moshref-Danesh is a member of Burke’s Environmental, Land Use & Natural Resources; Public Law; Litigation, and Real Estate & Business Law practices.

Richard Shreiba is a member of the firm’s Employment Law & Litigation, Labor Relations, and Workplace Investigations practices.

Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP is a California limited liability law partnership with 174 member attorneys. Our mission is to provide clients with creative, results oriented, and cost effective legal services within the complex environment in which they function. We view ourselves as problem solvers and legal strategists, not simply compliance monitors and reciters of the law. Burke has ten practice groups: Public Law; Labor and Employment Law; Litigation; Eminent Domain and Inverse Condemnation; Construction Law; Environmental, Land Use, Insurance Coverage and Litigation; Natural Resources; Real Estate and Business Law; Education Law, and Intellectual Property. Each practice focuses on the professional development of member attorneys and on providing advisory services tailored to the needs of both public and private clients. With regional offices in Los Angeles, Inland Empire, Marin County, Oakland, Orange County, Palm Desert, San Diego, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Ventura County, as well with the added support of advanced communications technology, Burke can easily be where our California situated clients need us to be. For more information, please visit www.bwslaw.com and https://www.linkedin.com/company/burke-williams-&-sorensen/about/?viewAsMember=true

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Media Contact: Mark Garcia • (213) 236-2847 • mgarcia@bwslaw.com

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Headquarters: Los Angeles, California
CEO: Mark Garcia
Employees: 250
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