Feb 15, 1996

Tulsa Dental Products

Kevin Shaw has been selected as sales representative for the Tulsa, Okla.-based Tulsa Dental Products line of endodontic products and accessories in Oregon and Washington. Shaw's previous employment included sales positions in the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

Middleton named partner at Davis Wright Tremaine

Alan S. Middleton has been named partner at Davis Wright Tremaine. Middleton, a general commercial litigation attorney in the firm's Seattle office, focuses his litigation practice in the areas of banking, construction, real estate, land use and intellectual property. Davis Wright Tremaine is a national law firm with more than 270 attorneys in 11 offices.

Garvey Schubert & Barer merger

The intellectual property law firm of Baron Lieberworth & Warner has merged its practice with Garvey Schubert & Barer. William F. Baron, David Lieberworth and Scott G. Warner are of counsel to Garvey Schebuert and practice in the firm's Seattle office. Baron has counseled high technology businesses since 1977 with a focus on negotiation technology relationships and protecting intellectual property. His clients have included software developers, hardware manufactures and biotechnology companies as well as major software users such as hospitals and municipalities. Lieberworth focuses on complex commercial litigation involving antitrust and other trade regulations laws, franchise matters, contracts, bankruptcy, trade secrets, copyrights and other intellectual property matters. Warner represents high technology and other emerging growth companies with an emphasis on computer law, protection of intellectual property rights and franchise and trade regulation. He also provides general corporate and commercial representation, including purchase and sale of technology companies. Garvey Schubert & Barer has 86 lawyers practicing in Seattle, Portland and Washington D.C.

Seed & Berry

William O. Ferron Jr. has been named managing partner of Seed & Berry, a Seattle intellectual property law firm. Ferron will continue to specialize in software protection, licensing, litigation, general trademark and copyright matters. Kevin J. Canning has become a partner with Seed & Berry, and will continue to specialize in computer patent matters. Niles appointed to international law committee Margaret Niles, an attorney with the Seattle-based firm Preston Gates & Ellis whose practice focuses on international business issues with the former Soviet Union, has been appointed to the American Bar Association Committee on the Newly Independent States of the Soviet Union. This committee, which is organized under the Bar's International Law and Practice Section, is intended to help attorneys keep abreast of the many legal issues arising in connection with doing business with the former Soviet Union.

Feb 14, 1996

Continental Mortgage Company

Ken Harding and Todd Peterson have joined the Seattle branch of Continental Mortgage Company. Harding and Peterson will both handle a variety of permanent home loan programs. Harding formerly worked at Pediatric Software, a Colorado-based software company. He joined Continental Mortgage as a marketing manager in 1993 and later transferred to Seattle to set up operations in the Pacific Northwest. Harding also previously owned his own contractor business and specialized in home remodeling. Peterson brings a background in the building industry, and most recently specialized in marketing and land acquisitions at First Edition Homes, a Mercer Island builder of luxury custom homes. Peterson joined Harbour Homes in 1989 as a customer service manager. He later moved to Portland and opened the Harbour Homes Portland branch, where he served as regional manager until he joined First Edition Homes.

Federal Home Loan Bank

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle whose mission is to expand housing and economic opportunities in the region, has promoted five employees. Chuck Van Court moves to his new position as vice president/director of information services from that of assistant vice president/applications of development manager. He came to the Seattle Bank in 1986 after working for Chevron Corp. as a computer systems liaison. Todd Aiken, Breton Grassley, and James Mochizuki, three of the Home Loan Bank's regional marketing officers, were promoted to assistant vice president. Before joining the bank's marketing department in 1995, Aiken worked as a financial analyst for Coopers & Lybrand and in sales for World Savings and California Federal Bank. Grassley came to the bank in 1988 and worked with the audit and credit departments before joining the marketing departments. Mochizuki joined the company's marketing staff in 1995 with ten years of experience as a correspondent banker with Security Pacific Bank and Seafirst Bank. Correspondent network services (CNS) manager Rebecca Paul has been promoted to assistant vice president. She joined Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle in 1989 as supervisor of CNS, and was promoted to manager in 1995. Prior to that, Paul was employed at U.S. Bank of Washington for nine years.

Thompson Recruitment Advertising

Seattle-based Thompson Recruitment Advertising, an advertising agency specialized in recruitment, has been renamed JWT Specialized Communications. JWT Specialized Communications is also diversifying its business in health care, business-to-business, financial services, senior marketing and high technology. JWT Specialized Communications is a subsidiary of J. Walter Thompson and has 21 offices throughout the nation.

Feb 13, 1996

Pollution prevention design tool developed

Pacific Northwest National Laboratories will begin work on a new software tool to help chemical engineers incorporate pollution prevention into the design of new and retrofit processes. Through a partnership involving the Center for Clean and Industrial Treatment Technologies at Michigan Technological University and the Center for Waste Reduction Technologies under the auspices of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, PNNL will expand its software to include design guidelines for chemical processes. The chemical processes include reactor design, separations design, and other unit operations common to the chemical process industry. The software will be developed as part of the Clean Process Advisory System. Funding for the project is provide by the EPA. For more information contact Scott Butner at 528-3290. This information is provided by Pollution Prevention Northwest, published by the Pacific Northwest Pollution Prevention Research Center.