Jan 28, 1997

Williams, Kastner & Gibbs

The Seattle office of Williams, Kastner & Gibbs LLP has named Mark Schedler and Matthew Green as partners of the firm. Schelder represents residential and commercial brokers as well as individuals in real estate and business transactions, and has extensive litigation experience. Green focuses his practice on litigation, with an emphasis in the areas of debtor-creditor rights and remedies and construction and lien related issues. James Miersma and Christopher Johnson have also joined the Seattle office as associates. Miersma will focus his practice creditors rights and other insolvency issues. Johnson will concentrate his practice on planning estates, including succession planning for family businesses, life insurance planning, planning for retirement benefits, and charitable transfers.

Bader Martin Ross & Smith

Kristi Mathisen, a certified public accountant at the Seattle firm of Bader Martin Ross & Smith, P.S., has become a shareholder in the firm. Mathisen's practice includes primarily estate, trust and gift taxation and planning, as well as general tax practice.

1997 WYLD Awards

The Washington Young Lawyers Division (WYLD) is now accepting 1997 nominations for three awards recognizing lawyers who epitomize the best in the organization's membership and in the profession. The WYLD will award the Thomas Neville Pro Bono Award, the Outstanding Young Lawyer of the Year Award and the Professionalism Award, to practitioners who make exceptional contributions to the organization's professional community. To nominate a candidate for any of the awards described above, send a letter (with your name, address and daytime telephone number) detailing the bases for the nomination, as well as a copy of the nominee's resume or list of accomplishments to: Patrick A. Palace, P.O. Box 1193, Tacoma, WA 98401-1193. Nominations must be received by April 9.

CobWeb/AccessOne

Two Eastside Internet companies CobWeb and AccessOne have formed a co-marketing relationship to package Quad Pentium, Microsoft's NT-based World Wide Web Virtual Domain hosting service for small, medium and large companies in the Puget Sound region. CobWeb, a turnkey Web solution provider based in Issaquah, is AccessOne's largest co-location partner, and a major Web site developer for Microsoft. AccessOne is one of the region's largest Internet Service providers and a supplier of business-to-business Internet connectivity solutions.

Lumbermen's

Olympia-based Lumbermen's Building Centers has hired INS Advertising of Portland to purchase its electronic advertising for the company throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Arizona. INS was chosen because of their media capabilities, strength in strategic planning and knowledge of the industry. Lumbermen's, a chain of retail building material centers, operates 44 centers and is part of Redmond-based Lanoga Corporation which operates 11 stores in Alaska under the name Spenard Builders Supply and 120 stores in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states under the names of United Building Centers and Fish Building Supply.

Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll

The Washington, D.C.-based law firm of Cohen, Milstein, Haudfeld & Toll have recently established a Seattle office, where Matthew Ide and Jessica Eaves have joined as associates. Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll specializes in class actions involving environmental damages, consumer products, securities and antitrust issues. The firm is located at 1301 Fifth Ave., Suite 2905, Seattle.

Metawave

Redmond-based Metawave Communications Corporation has hired Vito Palermo as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Palermo will oversee Metawave's financial and administrative operations, including accounting, treasury, financial planning, investor relations, MIS, legal and human resources. Metawave develops and markets SpotLight Multibeam Antenna Platform which enhances the capacity, coverage, and quality of wireless networks and reduces the need to invest in new cell sites.

Olympic Tug & Barge

Russell Johnson has joined Olympic Tug & Barge, a Seattle-based marine services provider, as marine operations manager. Johnson will manage the company's marine operations and work on new business projects both domestically and internationally. Rod Gullickson has moved to manager of engineering and Columbia River. He will be responsible for vessel repair, maintenance and conversion, in addition to being the profit center manager of Olympic's Columbia River Operations.

Rover's

Thierry Rautureau, chef and owner of the Seattle restaurant Rover's, will unveil ten original permanent paintings by local artist Isa D'Orleans that he commissioned to launch the restaurant's 10th anniversary celebration on February 10. Out of all of the artists displayed at Rover's, D'Orleans has been the most recognized. She has been the curator for the rotating artist exhibits at the restaurant since 1992 and has aided in the exposure of many painters and graphic artists in the Pacific Northwest. Rautureau is actually the subject of one of D'Orleans paintings, none of which he will see until they are installed.