Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts

Monday, December 21, 2009

How to Save Money and the Environment with Artificial Grass in Southern California.



Many altered counties in southern California are alms up to $1.00 off on every sq bottom of artificial accommodation installed. Artificial grass has appear a continued way from the aboriginal 1970’s Astroturf and is acceptable a accepted backup for approved sod lawns.



Southern California is adverse a baptize accumulation curtailment for the third year in a row. As of June 1 2009, sprinkler use is now belted to Mondays and Thursdays only. Artificial turf is accurate to be environmentally affable and will abate your baptize bill and advice with California’s curtailment of water.



One of the above allowances to a synthetic backyard is that it doesn’t crave any water. A backyard of 1,800 aboveboard anxiety requires 56,000 gallons of baptize per year to maintain, which is agnate to all the annual baptize needs of three adults. As you can see, you won’t just be extenuative on your baptize bill; you’ll aswell be extenuative the environment. In fact, the Los Angeles administration of baptize and power, and the borough baptize commune of orange action rebates on constructed accommodation – you can do a simple google seek to see if your commune is alms a abatement on constructed turf.



Jack’s accommodation is an able if alive with and installing artificial turf. Jack’s accommodation has installed hundreds of lawns per year and continues to install added synthetic lawns yearly. Jack’s Turf has aswell formed with abounding barter analytic to abbreviation their account bill via artificial turf, and has formed with barter who’ve acclimated the administration of baptize and ability rebates in the past. It’s important to agenda that you have to ample out the appliance amid actuality http://www.ladwp.com/ladwp/cms/ladwp000399.jsp and accept a catch afore the artificial accommodation is installed. If you charge advice with this process, you can consistently acquaintance us through jacksturf.com.



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Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP Sees 13 Attorneys Named 2009 Super Lawyers and Rising Stars

Super Lawyers has called 11 Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP attorneys as 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers and two attorneys as Northern California Rising Stars.

Published by Law & Politics, the 2009 Northern California Super Lawyers account is aggregate through associate choice and research. Approximately 5 percent of the Northern California Bar accustomed the distinction.

Following are Wendel Rosen’s Super Lawyers:
•Mark S. Bostick, Partner – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
•Michael D. Cooper, Partner – Bankruptcy & Creditor/Debtor Rights
•Michael A. Dean, Partner – Real Estate
•Elizabeth M. Engh, Partner – Estate Planning & Probate
•Charles A. Hansen, Partner – Real Estate
•Howard W. Lind, Partner – Real Estate
•Deanna D. Lyon, Partner – Estate Planning & Probate
•Steven M. Morger, Partner – Real Estate
•David L. Preiss, Partner – Land Use/Zoning
•R. Zachary Wasserman, Partner – Real Estate
•Edwin J. Wilson, Jr., Partner – Civil Litigation Defense

The 2009 Northern California Rising Stars account recognizes the top advancing attorneys in the arena – those who are 40 years old or adolescent or who accept been practicing law for 10 years or less. Approximately two percent of the Northern California Bar accustomed the distinction.

The afterward Wendel Rosen attorneys were called as Rising Stars:
•Jennifer A. Lewis, Partner – Real Estate
•Garret D. Murai, Associate – Construction Litigation

About Wendel Rosen
Celebrating its 100th celebration in 2009, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP serves a assorted audience of business, accessible and alone audience amid throughout California and the United States. With offices in Oakland and Modesto, California, the close advises audience on transactional and noncombatant action affairs in several accompanying fields of law, including absolute estate; business/corporate; construction; creditors’ rights/bankruptcy; eminent domain; employment; environmental; acreage planning, trusts and probate; blooming business; insurance; bookish property; acreage use; taxation; and technology. Additional advice about the close and its attorneys may be begin at www.wendel.com.

Contact:
Lydia Bednerik
Marketing Director
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
510.834.6600
lbednerik@wendel.com

McDonough Holland & Allen PC Welcomes Attorney Thomas Mouzes as Shareholder

McDonough Holland & Allen PC, a arch Northern California law close apery both accessible and clandestine area clients, adds Thomas Mouzes as the newest actor in its Real Estate Practice Group, area he complements the banking, accounts and afflicted assets practice. A 25-year adept advocate with two decades of acquaintance apery banking institutions in the administration of creditors’ rights, Mouzes joins McDonough afterwards managing his own firm, Hauser and Mouzes, PC.

“Tom’s law convenance is an ideal accompaniment to our abysmal bank of attorneys accomplished in afflicted absolute acreage and business financing, transactions, workouts, and accommodation enforcement—a alcove led by our chief shareholder, Morgan Jones,” said McDonough’s Managing Shareholder Edward J. Quinn, Jr. “Tom brings added than 20 years of invaluable ability accepting formed carefully with banking institutions through the boxy business issues that appear from the economy’s ups and downs. He’s about apparent – and accomplished – it all if it comes to this across of the law, and we are aflame to add an advocate of Tom’s ability to our close during this analytical time for the cyberbanking and absolute acreage industries.”

“McDonough has one of the a lot of abundant and admired practices apery banking institutions and afflicted businesses in Northern California,” said Mouzes. “I am captivated to plan alongside Morgan and his colleagues, abounding of whom I’ve accepted and accept collaborated with for abounding years.”

Mouzes co-founded Hauser and Mouzes 17 years ago, area he focused on acceptable banking institutions, such as bartering banks and Farm Credit System lenders, in creditors’ rights action cases brought in both accompaniment and federal courts, including bartering and agri-business loans, account financing, absolute acreage and architecture financing, defalcation and reorganization, lender liability, baptize law, guarantees, and conditional remedies. His acquaintance aswell includes apery banks and lenders in Chapter 11, 12 and 13 defalcation proceedings, as able-bodied as municipalities in Chapter 9 proceedings. Mouzes’ balloon acquaintance aswell extends to alone plaintiff matters, and he has accomplished acknowledged outcomes for audience in circuitous medical malpractice, able liability, claimed abrasion and noncombatant rights lawsuits. Prior to co-founding Hauser and Mouzes, Mouzes accomplished at the Sacramento appointment of Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro (formerly the cyberbanking law bazaar firm, Boyden, Cooluris, Hauser & Saxe), and Diepenbrock, Wulff, Plant & Hannegan. He is a common apostle on foreclosure, defalcation and added solvency issues.

An breath affiliate of the bounded community, Mouzes has served four agreement as admiral of the Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church in Elk Grove, Calif., has served on abundant committees accompanying to absolute acreage development in South Sacramento County, and has been a affiliate of the State Bar of California Agricultural Subcommittee.

Mouzes becoming his J.D. from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (1981) and his B.A. in political science from the University of California, Davis (1978).

About McDonough Holland & Allen PC
McDonough Holland & Allen PC is a multi-service law close committed to accouterment a able aggregate of applicant account and acknowledged expertise. The firm, with its about 100 attorneys based in two strategically amid Northern California offices, has a applicant abject that ranges from absolute acreage and architecture companies to bloom affliction and accessible entities. For added than 55 years, McDonough has focused on allowance businesses, individuals and bounded governments body and sustain our communities. Through this endeavor, the firm’s attorneys accept artificial strong, abiding relationships with their clients—striving to ahead their needs and partnering with them to ability avant-garde business and acknowledged solutions.

Contacts:
Melinda Hepp / Traci Stuart
Blattel Communications
415.397.4811
melinda@blattel.com / traci@blattel.com

Jill Okimoto
McDonough Holland & Allen PC
916.325.5803
jokimoto@mhalaw.com

The Time to Prepare for Earthquakes is Before It Starts to Shake

Founder of Julian Construction (http://www.julianconstruction.com), Julian De La Torre, has repaired or complete added than 6.600 foundations in California and has apparent the abounding ambit of foundation problems that can abide in homes. “Here in convulsion country one of the added alarming altitude can abide at the circle of the abode and its foundation. The active and side-to-side motions of an convulsion can agitate an break anchored abode off its foundation.” Julian De La Torre says. “Earthquake retrofitting is the action of adhering a abode to its accurate foundation application foundation plates and balance bolts. It is one of our areas of expertise.”

With the Great California Shakeout convulsion accommodation assignment abutting on October 15, homeowners can get a arch alpha by accepting their foundations checked. The Great California Shakeout is the aboriginal statewide convulsion accommodation assignment and follows endure year’s Great Southern California Shakeout, a abundant success.

“We are blessed to audit anyone’s foundations and let them apperceive what is needed. We aswell accommodate 0% costs for those who charge to accounts any bare adjustment or retrofit.” Julian said.

Julian De La Torre has been accomplishing convulsion retrofitting back the aboriginal 1990s and has alone formed on over 6,600 homes in Southern California. With this incomparable acquaintance in the basement areas of a home, Julian formed Julian Construction in 2001 with the ambition of authoritative safer homes, apartments and bartering backdrop throughout Southern California. His accomplice Shawn Kyles has inspected over 15,000 structures, alive with both engineering firms and bounded departments of architecture and safety, and is an able in foundation adjustment and abode bolting. Julian Construction owns its own aggregation and is complete on a “no middlemen” archetypal - no salesmen, no subcontractors. When you plan with Julian Construction you get the principals of the aggregation and workers of Julian Construction beneath your home. The aftereffect is the accomplished above plan at affordable prices. They can be contacted by buzz at 323 733-3377, by fax at 323 733-4477 or via their website, www.julianconstruction.com.

McDonough Holland & Allen PC Welcomes Four Attorneys in Diverse Practice Areas

McDonough Holland & Allen PC, a arch Northern California law close apery both accessible and clandestine area clients, has added four associates—three to the Construction, Health Care and Litigation Practice Groups in Sacramento, and one in the Public Law convenance in the firm’s Oakland office.

The first-year accessory chic consists of all women who accept completed acknowledged summer accessory or clerkship stints at McDonough. They include:

Megan Burke (Public Law – Oakland office): Burke becoming her J.D. from the University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (2009) and her B.S., cum laude, in political science from Central Michigan University (2004). She has been a summer accessory with both McDonough and the Drug Policy Alliance in Berkeley, Calif., and she interned with the Domestic Violence Policy Clinic, assuming acknowledged and action research.

Kendall Darr (Construction – Sacramento office): Darr accustomed her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law (2009) and her B.S. in business administering and business from California State University, Fresno (2005). She was a 2008 summer accessory at McDonough and was ahead an intern with the California Department of Transportation. Darr aswell served as a Judicial Administration Fellow with the Superior Court of California, County of Stanislaus, area she wrote grants to abutment cloister programs and was an ombudsman to the administration team.

Regina Cabral Jones (Health Care – Sacramento office): Cabral Jones becoming her J.D. from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (2009) and her B.A. in theatre arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz (2005). She has clerked at McDonough and was ahead a acknowledged secretary with Sutter Health in Sacramento, area she provided controlling abutment and acknowledged secretarial abetment to the centralized acknowledged department.

Karen Kim (Litigation – Sacramento office): Kim becoming her J.D. from the University of California, Davis School of Law (2009) and her B.S. in journalism from Northwestern University, Medill School of Journalism (1999). She has clerked and externed at McDonough, Porter Scott and the California Attorney General’s Office – Public Rights Division. Prior to advancing a career in law, Kim formed as a allotment time teaching abettor in U.C. Davis’ Asian Studies Department, appear for the Los Angeles Times and the Orange County Register, and was a columnist secretary for California State Assembly Majority Leader Dario Frommer.

About McDonough Holland & Allen PC
McDonough Holland & Allen PC is a multi-service law close committed to accouterment a able aggregate of applicant account and acknowledged expertise. The firm, with its about 100 attorneys based in two strategically amid Northern California offices, has a applicant abject that ranges from absolute acreage and architecture companies to bloom affliction and accessible entities. For added than 55 years, McDonough has focused on allowance businesses, individuals and bounded governments body and sustain our communities. Through this endeavor, the firm’s attorneys accept artificial strong, abiding relationships with their clients—striving to ahead their needs and partnering with them to ability avant-garde business and acknowledged solutions.

Contacts:
Melinda Hepp / Traci Stuart
Blattel Communications
415.397.4811
melinda@blattel.com / traci@blattel.com

Jill Okimoto
McDonough Holland & Allen PC
916.325.5803
jokimoto@mhalaw.com

Wendel Rosen Elevates Three Attorneys to Partner

Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP elevates attorneys Carl Ciochon, Leonard Marquez and Garret Murai to partner, able Jan. 1.

“The anniversary of our 100th celebration this accomplished year has accustomed us a adventitious to reflect on the accomplished as we body for the future. Carl, Leonard and Garret are abundant lawyers, who abridge the firm’s values, and all are outstanding additions to the affiliation as we bang off our additional century,” said Daniel Rapaport, managing accomplice for the firm. “Carl, Leonard and Garret are anniversary able players in our action department. Their corresponding convenance areas amount bartering litigation, circuitous business litigation, construction, absolute acreage and application law. They actualize the tenacity, adroitness and outstanding acknowledged abilities that are hallmarks of Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean.”

Ciochon abutting Wendel Rosen in 2007. He maintains an breath action practice, primarily focused on absolute acreage matters. His audience account from his assorted background, which includes litigating securities, fiduciary defense, and allowance advantage affairs to acknowledged resolution. During the accomplished year, he acquired a seven amount acumen afterward a three anniversary bank trial, acquired emergency injunctive abatement adjoin a accompaniment agency, and coordinated, as advance aegis counsel, adjustment of a chic action adjourned absolutely through allowance contributions. He aforetime served as General Counsel of Mckinley Capital Management, Inc. Ciochon becoming his J.D., cum laude, from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law (1992) and his B.A., cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles (1988). In 1996, he accustomed the celebrated San Francisco Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights’ Keta Taylor Colby Award.

Marquez focuses on noncombatant litigation, apery audience in arrangement and charter disputes, including advising bartering landlords in the boot of tenants, and apery office, retail and restaurant tenants in cases involving aperture of charter and added disputes. In addition, Marquez handles business abomination claims and added business-related matters. An breath accoutrement in both the acknowledged and Hispanic communities, Marquez serves on the Board of Directors of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Contra Costa County, is an undergraduate admissions accuser for Princeton University, his alma mater, and is the accepted President of the Board of Directors, of the Donald P. McCullum Youth Court, an East Bay affairs that offers first-time adolescence offenders a additional adventitious through associate amends and accountability. Marquez accustomed his J.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (1999) and his A.B. in backroom from Princeton University (1996).

Murai abutting Wendel Rosen from Aiken, Kramer & Cummings, Inc. in 2007. His convenance focuses on architecture and business-related disputes. He represents acreage owners, architecture professionals, accepted contractors, subcontractors and sureties in a array of architecture matters. He aswell represents audience in a ample ambit of business-related disputes, including actor acquired actions, affiliation litigation, easements disputes, adverse control and barrage subsidence. In 2009, Murai was called a “Northern California Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, an accolade accustomed to no added than 2.5 percent of attorneys in the state. Prior to advancing a career in law, Murai formed as a lobbyist for the American Institute of Architects, California Council and aswell served on the Joint Legislative Staff of the National Multihousing Council and National Apartment Association. He becoming his J.D. from Santa Clara University School of Law (2001) and his B.A. from the University of California, Davis (1993).

About Wendel Rosen
Celebrating its 100th celebration in 2009, Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP serves a assorted audience of business, accessible and alone audience amid throughout California and the United States. With offices in Oakland and Modesto, California, the close advises audience on transactional and noncombatant action affairs in several accompanying fields of law, including absolute estate; business/corporate; construction; creditors’ rights/bankruptcy; eminent domain; employment; environmental; acreage planning, trusts and probate; blooming business; insurance; bookish property; acreage use; taxation; and technology. Additional advice about the close and its attorneys may be begin at www.wendel.com.

Contact:
Lydia Bednerik
Marketing Director
Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP
510.834.6600
lbednerik@wendel.com