Clifford & Brown

Specialties

Over the last 40 years, Clifford & Brown has developed a reputation as an experienced and respected law firm providing a wide range of legal services. Centrally located in California’s San Joaquin Valley, the firm is uniquely positioned to provide its clients with business and personal legal services throughout the state. The firm provides transactional and litigation representation in areas including business formation and disputes, business and civil litigation, mergers and acquisitions, agriculture, real estate and land use, water and environmental, estate planning and probate, personal injury and wrongful death, tax and wealth planning, employment, oil and gas, intellectual property, professional malpractice and appellate advocacy. With twelve of its partners having over twenty years of experience, four having greater than thirty years and its two name partners having practiced nearly forty years each, the firm utilizes its breadth of experience to benefit all its clients.

History

Established in 1966.

The firm now known as Clifford & Brown has roots over half a century old. In 1966, when Steve Clifford walked into a two-​man firm known as Raymond & Noriega and was hired as its first associate, he joined two men who were already premier trial lawyers in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. Bob Raymond had been a partner in Baker, Palmer, Wall & Raymond in the 1950’s, and later joined the late Hon. Gerald K. Davis in the firm of Raymond & Davis, until the latter’s appointment to the bench. In 1971, senior partner Joseph Noriega moved the firm to a newly-​constructed law building at 1605 «G» Street where the firm remained until 1988. In 1988, the firm moved to its current location, the Bank of America building, directly across from the Kern County Superior Courthouse.