Sep 22, 2015

Green & Yalowitz

Hardwick

Amber L. Hardwick has become an owner of Green & Yalowitz, a construction law firm serving design and construction professionals in Washington and Oregon. She joined the firm as an associate in 2009.

Whitepages

Whitepages, which provides contact information in North America, hired Mayur Kamat, a product lead at Google, to head the communications experience division and focus on caller ID and spam/scam protection apps. Kamat was part of the Google Hangouts team. He will be vice president of mobile at Whitepages, based in the downtown Seattle headquarters.

Sep 18, 2015

Schwabe

Ford

Stolowitz

Schwabe has joined forces with Stolowitz Ford Cowger, a seven-attorney Portland-based intellectual property/patent law firm, adding 32 IP attorneys and paralegals to the Schwabe IP department. The seven attorneys include Micah Stolowitz, Steve Ford, Graciela Cowger, Bryan Kirkpatrick, Michael Cofield, Jeffrey Marlink and Mark Meininger. StoFoCo has expertise in electrical engineering, optics and other technical disciplines. Schwabe's expertise is in software, e-commerce, telecom, semiconductor, media, biotech, medical devices and consumer products.

Plume21

The ports of Tacoma and Seattle have formally launched The Northwest Seaport Alliance, joining forces to create the third largest gateway in North America. Plume21, a strategy and creative firm with offices in Seattle and La Jolla, California, developed concepts and brand identity for the marine cargo partnership.

Sep 17, 2015

Marcus Whitman Hotel

Leeper

After being assistant general manager for 13 years, Dan Leeper is now general manager of the Marcus Whitman Hotel in Walla Walla.

Lane Powell

Miao

Qingqing Miao has joined Lane Powell as an attorney in the Business Practice Group, where she will focus on immigration and business law. Miao worked as of counsel at Ellis, Li & McKinstry. She is on the executive committee of the Washington Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and secretary of the Asian Bar Association of Washington.

Sep 16, 2015

Washington Defense Trial Lawyers

Campbell

Jennifer Campbell, a shareholder at Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, is president-elect of the Washington Defense Trial Lawyers, starting in July 2016. She has been on the board since 2007, and has years of experience with product liability, personal injury and general commercial litigation.

Phillips Burgess

The Olympia law firm Phillips Burgess has moved its headquarters to a larger space in Market Place at 724 Columbia St. N.W. The firm still has an office in Tacoma. The founders are attorneys Richard “Mick” Phillips and Heather Burgess, and they focus on land use, environmental, real estate and natural resources law.