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Columbia ___MASK51___ School is a professional graduate school of ___MASK66___ , a member of the Ivy League . It is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always been ranked in the top five by " U . S . News and World Report ". Columbia is especially well known for its strength in corporate law and its placement power in the nation ' s elite law firms . California is the most populous state in the United States and the third most extensive by area . Located on the western ( Pacific Ocean ) coast of the U . S ., California is bordered by the other U . S . states of Oregon , Nevada , and Arizona and shares an international border with the Mexican state of Baja California . The state capital is Sacramento . Los Angeles is California ' s most populous city , and the country ' s second largest after ___MASK40___ City . The state also has the nation ' s most populous county , Los Angeles County , and its largest county by area , San Bernardino County . The Ivy League is a collegiate athletic conference comprising sports teams from eight private institutions of higher education in the Northeastern United States . The conference name is also commonly used to refer to those eight schools as a group beyond the sports context . The eight institutions are ___MASK14___ , ___MASK66___ , Cornell University , Dartmouth College , Harvard University , the University of Pennsylvania , Princeton University , and Yale University . The term " Ivy League " has connotations of academic excellence , selectivity in admissions , and social elitism . Greenberg Traurig ( officially Greenberg Traurig , LLP and Greenberg Traurig , PA ) is an international ___MASK51___ firm founded in Miami , Florida , United States in 1967 by Larry J . Hoffman , Mel Greenberg and Robert Traurig . It has 37 offices in the United States , Latin America , Europe , the Middle East and Asia . It is the 3rd largest ___MASK51___ firm in the United States with 1 , 608 attorneys in the US and 1 , 800 attorneys worldwide . Their largest office is in ___MASK40___ City . In Warsaw , Poland , the firm operates as Greenberg Traurig Grzesiak sp . k . Additionally , Greenberg Traurig , LLP has a strategic alliance with the independent ___MASK51___ firm Studio Santa Maria in Milan and Rome , Italy . Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a unitary parliamentary republic in Europe . Located in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea , Italy shares open land borders with France , Switzerland , ___MASK38___ , Slovenia , San Marino and Vatican City . Italy covers an area of and has a largely temperate seasonal climate and Mediterranean climate ; due to its shape , it is often referred to in Italy as " lo Stivale " ( the Boot ). With 61 million inhabitants , it is the fourth most populous EU member state . The City of ___MASK40___ , often called ___MASK40___ City or simply ___MASK40___ , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , ___MASK40___ City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of ___MASK40___ , the city is the center of the ___MASK40___ metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , ___MASK40___ City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " ___MASK40___ minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , ___MASK40___ is an important center for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . The Wikimedia Foundation , Inc . ( WMF ) is an American non - profit and charitable organization headquartered in San Francisco , California . It is mostly known for participating in the Wikimedia movement . It owns the internet domain names of most movement projects and hosts sites like Wikipedia . The foundation was founded in 2003 by Jimmy Wales as a way to fund Wikipedia and its sister projects through non - profit means . Luis Villa is an American attorney and programmer , and currently works as Senior Director of Community Engagement at the Wikimedia Foundation . Before his current position , he worked as Deputy General Counsel at the Wikimedia Foundation . Previously he was an attorney at Mozilla , where he worked on the revision of the Mozilla Public License ( MPL ) . He continued that work in his next job at Greenberg Traurig where he was part of the team defending Google against Oracle ' s claims concerning Android . Prior to graduating from Columbia ___MASK51___ School in 2009 , he was an employee at Ximian , which was acquired by Novell in 2003 . He spent a year as a `` senior geek in residence '' at Harvard ' s Berkman Center for Internet & Society working on StopBadware . org . He has been elected four times to the board of the GNOME Foundation . He was editor - in - chief of the Columbia Science and Technology ___MASK51___ Review , and blogs regularly . He was a director of the Open Source Initiative from April 2012 to March 2015 . San Francisco ( SF ) ( Spanish for Saint Francis ) officially the City and County of San Francisco , is the cultural , commercial , and financial center of Northern California . It is the birthplace of the United Nations . Located at the north end of the San Francisco Peninsula , San Francisco is about in area , making it the smallest county  and the only consolidated city - county  within the state of California . With a density of about 18 , 451 people per square mile ( 7 , 124 people per km ), San Francisco is the most densely settled large city ( population greater than 200 , 000 ) in California and the second - most densely populated major city in the United States after ___MASK40___ City . San Francisco is the fourth - most populous city in California , after Los Angeles , San Diego , and San Jose , and the 13th - most populous city in the United States  with a census - estimated 2015 population of 864 , 816 . The city and its surrounding areas are known as the San Francisco Bay Area , and are a part of the larger OMB - designated San Jose - San Francisco - Oakland combined statistical area , the fifth most populous in the nation with an estimated population of 8 . 7 million . ___MASK66___ ( officially ___MASK66___ in the City of New York ) is a private Ivy League research university in Upper Manhattan , New York City . It was established in 1754 as King ' s College by royal charter of George II of Great Britain . Columbia is the oldest college in the state of New York and the fifth chartered institution of higher learning in the country , making it one of nine colonial colleges founded before the Declaration of Independence . After the American Revolutionary War , King ' s College briefly became a state entity , and was renamed Columbia College in 1784 . A 1787 charter placed the institution under a private board of trustees before it was renamed ___MASK66___ in 1896 when the campus was moved from Madison Avenue to its current location in Morningside Heights occupying of land . Columbia is one of the fourteen founding members of the Association of American Universities , and was the first school in the United States to grant the M . D . degree .