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Gigi Birchfield is the Managing Partner of the Southern California offices of Major, Lindsey & Africa (Los Angeles and San Diego). Gigi graduated with a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, in 1982 from Claremont McKenna College. She received her J.D. in 1986 from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law.
Gigi began her legal career at Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker in Los Angeles, where she practiced law for six years as a real estate transactional attorney. In 1992 she joined Citicorp Real Estate, Inc. as assistant general counsel in its Los Angeles office, where she was responsible for supervising the legal function for all of the CREI offices in the Western Region: Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Francisco.
In January of 2001 Gigi opened the Southern California office of Major, Lindsey & Africa. Since then her practice has focused primarily on conducting in-house searches across industry lines, with a special emphasis on the placement of senior attorneys, including General Counsel. Representative corporate clients include Ares Management, Illumina, HealthNet, Gemstar-TV Guide, NBC Universal, and Guess Inc. Gigi has also placed partners in law firms, and has assisted two out of state law firm clients in opening a Los Angeles office.
Gigi is a past member of the Real Estate Finance Committee Subsection of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and a past president of the Claremont McKenna College Alumni Association and an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of CMC. Gigi resides in Los Feliz with her husband Mark and their three children and two dogs. | 