We are pleased to welcome Gary S. Stirbis, formerly with Moss Adams LLP and Office of Chief Counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, as a new partner in our Tacoma office.
Jason M. Whalen, a member of Eisenhower since 1993, was elected to the City Council of Lakewood, Washington in the November 3 general election. Jason joins another Eisenhower member, Don Anderson, who has served on the Lakewood Council since 2007 as its Deputy Mayor.
With a 91 percent participation rate, Tacoma's Gordon Thomas Honeywell just edged out Eisenhower & Carlson, at 85 percent participation, in the last seconds of the campaign, literally. The School of Law is delighted that two firms in Tacoma, the city where the law school has its roots and where Dean Annette Clark still resides, top the Challenge results. This increased support for Seattle University School of Law and for its mission and students is extraordinary. For more on the Seattle U Law Firm Alumni Challenge, click here.
In 2008, the national economic and credit crisis took a devastating toll on the real estate market. Although Washington seems to have weathered this crisis better than some other areas of the United States going into 2009, banks, investors, and other lenders now directly own or manage area distressed residential, commercial, and industrial properties in unprecedented, ever-increasing numbers.
Eisenhower Real Estate and Land Use attorney Terry Brink recently assisted Lipoma Communities LLC, developers of the 202-acre Lipoma Firs Golf Course in Graham to obtain an un-appealed approval for the Lipoma Communities Planned Development District.
Eisenhower & Carlson PLLC's Real Estate and Land Use Group is proud to be a sponsor of the first annual Thurston Economic Development Council Real Estate Forum, "Thurston County - Open for Business", to be held on September 23, 2009 at Indian Summer Golf & Country Club.
Eisenhower member Guy J. Sternal has been named lead counsel for Bradken-Atlas in connection with the October 2007 explosion...
