GGA facilitated and enhanced the successful merger of two established, national law firms through the design of the Nixon Peabody law office in Washington, DC. GGA's design process synthesized organizational and cultural differences and unified the firm with a modern, efficient office place. Private offices are placed along the perimeter, with paralegals and secretaries on the interior. After examining the objectives of each individual firm, GGA developed a singular design that helped to objectify the new firm's identity as modern, professionally refined, dedicated to client service, and mindful of fiscal and civic responsibility.GGA's change management support surfaces throughout the office. Functionally, GGA developed a space plan that grouped offices and workstations into various communities and co-mingled employees of each firm, and created efficiencies by streamlining office standards. GGA designed the symbolic connecting staircase, with its totemic sculpture, to fuse the separate floors ‚¬â€and firms ‚¬â€into one.