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2009年12月16日星期三

Business Team – Los Angeles Office - Get the Business Brokerage Basics

Now is the time to become a business allowance able as baby boomers attending to advertise their businesses. The California Association of Business Brokers will be alms an “Introduction to California Business Brokerage” advance on Thursday and Friday, June 12-13, 2008 in Northern and Southern California. The advance will be offered accompanying at the Biltmore Hotel and Suites in Santa Clara, and the Grand Long Beach Event Center in Long Beach.

“As baby boomers retire or attending for new opportunities, they will be analytic to accomplished business brokers to baby-sit the affairs process,” said Ron Hottes, admiral of CABB. “This anterior advance on business allowance will awning all of the industry basics as able-bodied as tips on how to be acknowledged in the California market.”

The 2-day, 15-hour course, which includes lunch, is chargeless to all new members. Topics to be discussed cover the business of business brokerage, recasting seller’s arbitrary earnings, closing the auction and agent cooperation. Space is bound to CABB associates only, but new associates are accepted.

For added advice on the advance “Introduction to California Business Brokerage,” or to annals for the program, appointment www.cabb.org.

Media Contact:
Vickie Hottes
Business Team - Los Angeles
2293 W. 190th Street
Torrance, CA 90504
(310) 539-8300
www.business-team.com

About Business Team
Business Team is a assemblage of BTI Group and a affiliate of the International Business Brokers Association and the California Association of Business Brokers. Business Team is the better allowance close in the Western United States, with business brokers specializing in businesses for auction and affairs businesses in Northern California, Southern California, Nevada, Missouri, and Washington, as able-bodied as, eCommerce and Internet businesses.

Construction Commando - Construction Commando Announces New Free Contractor Forms

Store this angel in big sizeSan Diego, CA – August 21, 2008 – Construction Commando, a arch self-help acknowledged ability for California’s architecture industry, today appear the absolution of chargeless architect forms on its website, constructioncommando.com. The website contains architecture accompanying acknowledged abstracts accessible at no charge, including California Preliminary 20-Day Notice forms for both accessible works projects and clandestine works projects.

“If you could calmly bottle your appropriate to a mechanic’s affirmation that would defended transaction for your harder work, why wouldn’t you?” said Suzanne Ervine, who accustomed the Construction Commando in 2006 to accommodate low amount acknowledged casework to California contractors. “Many subcontractors don’t apprehend how simple it is to adapt and mail a Preliminary Notice on the acreage buyer – and that, after it, the appropriate to accomplish a mechanic’s affirmation or stop apprehension is about eliminated.”

In adjustment to advance mechanic’s affirmation rights on clandestine works projects in the accompaniment of California, subcontractors and actual suppliers have to serve a Preliminary Notice on the acreage buyer aural 20 canicule of starting work. In addition, accepted California law requires that subcontractors serve a Preliminary Notice for any activity that exceeds $400.

Construction Commando’s chargeless Preliminary Notice forms are fabricated accessible to advice contractors and suppliers bound and accurately ensure acquiescence with California’s mechanic’s affirmation and stop apprehension requirements. “The architecture industry has been hit abnormally harder in the contempo bread-and-butter downturn,” said Ervine. “Project owners are demography best to pay and contractors, who accept already paid their advisers and suppliers, are activity the pinch.”

“With alone 20 canicule from the activity alpha date, contractors accept a actual abbreviate time anatomy to act, or they accident accident their affirmation rights. We ambition to accomplish abiding that, if it comes time to almanac a mechanic’s affirmation and to foreclose that lien, contractors accept taken all of the able accomplish to ensure they can collect.”

The chargeless Preliminary 20-Day Notice forms and added architect abstracts are accessible for download from www.constructioncommando.com. The website aswell offers California architecture affairs bales accessible for purchase, and a absolute advertence library of chargeless online autograph accoutrement a array of architecture and business law topics.

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Contact: Suzanne Ervine
Construction Commando
PO Box 712548
Santee, CA 92072
619-564-4869
www.constructioncommando.com

Construction Commando is a affirmed and registered acknowledged certificate abettor (LDA). The aggregation offers able architecture affirmation and accompanying acknowledged casework to contractors throughout the State of California, specializing in acceptable contractors and subcontractors with self-help acknowledged tasks, including customized architecture affairs and documents; basic apprehension forms; recording and absolution mechanic’s liens; advancing and confined stop notices and architecture band claims; cloister accomplishments for aperture of arrangement and to foreclose mechanic’s liens; and acumen enforcement. San Diego County LDA #44, exp. 8/7/10.

Celtic Bank - Boettcher Group, Inc. Receives Commercial Financing From Celtic Bank

Celtic Bank afresh bankrupt a bartering accommodation for Woodcraft franchisee, Boettcher Group, a retail aggregation that provides woodworking accoutrement and supplies. Located in Ventura, California, Woodcraft is captivated to action their articles and casework to woodworking professionals and hobbyists in the surrounding area. Wendy Boettcher, President of the aggregation “applauds Celtic’s even-keeled access to accepting appropriately active while still alive to abutment the baby business owner.”

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, and accommodation assembly offices in California, Celtic Bank supports barter throughout the country and is a arch provider of baby business, absolute acreage and architecture loans. Celtic Bank’s accomplished specialists can advice with a array of articles including SBA and bartering loans, construction, absolute acreage financing, and residential mortgages. Celtic Bank is an Equal Housing, Preferred SBA, and FHA lender and is insured by the FDIC. For added information, appointment www.celticbank.com.

Celtic Bank
Tim Weaver
31255 Cedar Valley Drive, Suite 207
Westlake Village, California 91361
818.378.8999
tweaver@celticbank.com
www.celticbank.com

Celtic Bank
Nai Sok
340 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
801.320.6569
nsok@celticbank.com
www.celticbank.com

Celtic Bank - Celtic Bank Hires Jim Harris as Regional Vice President/Business Development Officer

Celtic Bank afresh appear that it has assassin Jim Harris as bounded carnality president/SBA business development for Central and Northern California. “We’re aflame to abound aural the California market, it is an adapted next step,” said Reese Howell, Jr. arch controlling administrator of Celtic Bank.

A alum of California State University, Sacramento, Mr. Harris’ accomplishments in banking casework administration began as a agent in the mid 1980s, confused to retail case administration in 1989, and back 1997 has focused on accouterment costs to baby businesses. Mr. Howell mentions, “Jim brings a abundance of acquaintance to Celtic Bank, and we feel assured in the job he’ll do.”

Harris’ primary action is to advance SBA and USDA lending in Central and Northern California, admitting Jim has the ascendancy to accompany bartering absolute acreage opportunities nationally. Harris states that his primary ambition is to “help Celtic Bank become the arch provider of SBA and USDA loans from Bakersfield to the Oregon border.

Headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT, and a accommodation assembly appointment in Westlake Village, California, Celtic Bank supports barter throughout the country and is a arch provider of baby business loans, absolute acreage and architecture loans. Celtic Bank’s accomplished specialists can advice with a array of articles including SBA and bartering loans, construction, absolute acreage financing, and residential mortgages. Celtic Bank is an Equal Housing, Preferred SBA, and FHA lender and is insured by the FDIC. For added information, appointment www.celticbank.com.

Jim Harris
Celtic Bank
Gold River, California
916-215-3167
jharris@celticbank.com
www.celticbank.com

Reese Howell
Celtic Bank
340 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
801.363.6500
rhowell@celticbank.com

Waters & Kraus - Waters & Kraus Announces New Partners, New Location, & Renaming of West Coast Offices

DALLAS — January 7, 2009 — The new year brings three above announcements for civic plaintiffs’ close Waters & Kraus, LLP: the renaming of its West Coast offices; 5 new partners; and the aperture of a new area in San Francisco.

WK Becomes Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP in California
Effective January 1, 2009, the West Coast offices of Waters & Kraus, LLP were renamed Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP. The renaming recognizes accomplice Gary M. Paul’s aberrant account to the close and its clients. Since abutting WK in 2006, Mr. Paul has been active in accepting plaintiffs’ verdicts in several notable asbestos trials, including Silvestro v. Bondex, Behshid v. Bondex, Saffold v. Bondex, Rollin v. American Standard, and Davis v. American Standard.

“The renaming reflects our admiration to account Gary Paul,” said Andy Waters, a founding accomplice in the firm. “Gary’s achievements in the attorneys and his account to the convenance of law are able-bodied accepted in the accompaniment of California, and he is absolutely admired as one of the top plaintiffs’ attorneys of our time. It is a advantage to apperceive and plan with Gary, and to accept his ample acknowledged aptitude and acquaintance alive on account of our clients. We are admiring to accept Gary as a aide and a called partner.”

WK co-founder Peter Kraus continued, “The name change demonstrates our pride in Gary, our charge to our clients, and the firm’s connected and growing attendance in the accompaniment of California. We are admiring to be accepted as Waters Kraus & Paul.”

Mr. Paul is currently a accomplice at the firm’s Los Angeles appointment with a acclaimed acknowledged convenance in circuitous noncombatant action that spans three decades and added than 100 trials. Among his abounding accolades, he is a backstab almsman of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles (CAALA) “Trial Attorney of the Year” for 2008 and 1981 — the alone almsman to accept won the accolade alert as an individual. He was inducted into CAALA’s Hall of Fame in 2008. He has served in controlling roles for abounding able organizations, including CAALA, Consumer Attorneys Association of California (CAOC), and the Pound Civil Justice Institute. He currently serves on the controlling axle of the American Association of Justice (AAJ), and was adopted AAJ’s secretary in 2008. He has been accustomed on the account of Southern California Super Lawyers® for the endure four years. A acclaimed columnist and speaker, he becoming his J.D. amount from the Loyola Law School, and was accepted to the State Bar of California in 1974.

Five WK Associates Selected as Partners
Michelle B. Whitman, Kyla Gail Cole, Scott L. Frost, John S. Janofsky, and Michael B. Gurien accept been called as ally in the firm. The partnerships became able January 1, 2009.

• Michelle B. Whitman abutting WK in the Dallas appointment in 2001. She becoming her J.D. amount from the University of Miami, and has been alert accustomed on the Texas Rising Stars® list. She focuses her convenance on asbestos litigation.

• Kyla Gail Cole abutting WK in 2004. She accelerating summa cum laude from the Texas Tech University School of Law. Ms. Cole has a appropriate absorption in asbestos action and articles liability. She practices in the Dallas office, and is the pro bono coordinator for the firm.

• Scott L. Frost has served as of admonition in WK’s Dallas appointment back 2006. He becoming his J.D. amount from the University of Kentucky, and aforetime served with the Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the U.S. Army. With a appropriate absorption in asbestos litigation, Scott is a common presenter at asbestos conferences, and has been accustomed on the Texas Rising Stars® list.

• John S. Janofsky abutting WKP in 2006 in the Los Angeles office. He has all-embracing acquaintance in chump and biologic articles liability, as able-bodied as commercial, insurance, and employer/labor litigation. A alum of the University of the Pacific School of Law, he has been accustomed on the account of Southern California Super Lawyers®, and for his outstanding action abilities with an AV associate analysis by Martindale-Hubbell.

• Michael B. Gurien abutting WKP in 2006 in the Los Angeles office. He was awarded his J.D. amount from Loyola Law School, and has been accustomed alert on the account of Southern California Super Lawyers®. His convenance areas cover articles liability, with an accent on asbestos litigation, and appeals and writs.

WKP Opens New Office in San Francisco
Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP, has opened an appointment in San Francisco. In accession to alms easier acceptance and greater accessibility for the firm’s asbestos-mesothelioma clients, the new annex will focus on developing WKP’s chic action practice.

“We are so admiring to accept Ingrid Evans and David Cheng — two actual accomplished accessible absorption attorneys — abutting us at our new location,” said Peter Kraus, the firm’s co-founding partner.

They accompany a solid ability and a almanac of success in chic action litigation. Ingrid aswell has asbestos action experience, while David has bartering experience. They will play a basic role in developing this actual important across of our practice.”

Ms. Evans joins the close as an of admonition attorney, and Mr. Cheng joins as an associate. Both Ms. Evans and Mr. Cheng are accomplished litigators in accompaniment and federal courts and allotment a appropriate absorption in the convenance of ancient banking bribery law and representation of accessible entities in circuitous cases, absorption on chump aegis chic actions. Ms. Evans was awarded a J.D. amount from the McGeorge School of Law. Mr. Cheng becoming his J.D. amount from Boston College.

The new appointment is amid in Opera Plaza, a adept planned retail and residential association in the affection of San Francisco’s cultural center. The appointment is several blocks from the Civic Center’s government offices, and can be calmly accomplished by accessible busline or adjacent freeways.

“We had been because a Bay Area area for some time,” acclaimed accomplice Gary M. Paul. “We draw abounding audience from the area, and this appointment will accredit us to accommodate bigger account and added casework as we abound our attendance in the state.”

To appointment or acquaintance WKP’s San Francisco office:
601 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 2080
San Francisco, California 94102
Phone (800) 226-9880 Fax (214) 777-0470

About Waters & Kraus, LLP
Waters & Kraus, LLP, is a plaintiffs’ close apperception on circuitous artefact accountability and claimed injury/wrongful afterlife cases. The firm’s assorted convenance includes baneful abomination (mesothelioma) litigation, biologic artefact liability, negligence, ancient banking abuse, and chump artefact liability, as able-bodied as qui tam (whistle-blower) and bartering litigation. With offices in Texas, California, and Maryland, Waters & Kraus has litigated cases in jurisdictions above the United States on account of individuals from all 50 states, as able-bodied as adopted governments. In California, the close is accepted as Waters Kraus & Paul, LLP.

Brandy Dietz - Public Relations
Waters & Kraus
3219 McKinney Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75204
Ph: 800.226.9880
bdietz@waterskraus.com
www.waterskraus.com

Quest CE - Quest CE Offers California Annuities Online Training Course

Quest CE is admiring to advertise the availability of their anew authored 8-Hour California Annuities Online Training Course. Quest’s new advance meets the California Legislature’s Senate Bill 620 (SB 620), area 1749.8 of the California Insurance Code.

California law requires eight hours of California-specific annuities training for all activity and bloom agents who advertise alone accomplishment articles in the state. The law requires training in accomplishment artefact history, appearance and benefits; California law, regulations and requirements accompanying to annuities; banned sales practices; and counterfeit and arbitrary barter practices.

New agents have to complete the training above-mentioned to soliciting alone consumers for accomplishment sales.

These appropriate hours are allotment of, and not in accession to, the approved continuing apprenticeship requirement. Training may be provided in either a classroom ambience or via home abstraction (print textbook, CD or online).

Quest’s new advance is blue-blooded “California 2004 Annuity Training”. In the advance acceptance will find:

•a complete basal compassionate of annuities;

•examples, references and citations that brighten circuitous points;

•easy-to-read argument with anecdotal account of why and how the locations fit together;

•why annuities are important and what they beggarly for the consumer;

•and discussions of the problems and solutions associated with annuities as they chronicle to seniors.

This advance provides the appropriate training and apprenticeship allowable by California SB 620 for accountant allowance practitioners who advertise accomplishment articles in California. It addresses all of the capacity in the outline appear by the Department of Insurance (DOI) and is accustomed by the DOI for the 8-hour training requirement.

For added advice on Quest’s 2004 California Annuity Training Course, including aggregate discounts, acquaintance Jim Hoehn at 877-593-3366 or via email at jhoehn@questce.com

Over the accomplished 20-plus years, Quest CE has complete a acceptability of accepting the arch provider of Continuing Education to the banking casework industry. In accession to alms Third Party Administration for allowance continuing apprenticeship (CE) for professionals captivation allowance licenses and able designations like the CFP, CPA, CLE, CIMA and CLU/ChFC designations, we aswell accommodate a complete spectrum of acquiescence training solutions both “live” and through online/self-study programs.

Quest CE
10850 W Park Pace
Suite 1000
Milwaukee, WI 53224