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Stephen
L. Barbose
Steve Barbose is a senior member of the firm’s
litigation department. He concentrates on real estate,
contract and other business controversies. He has
represented individuals and large and small companies
in business litigation for twenty-five years. He has
prosecuted and defended real estate brokers on liability
claims, ranchers, developers and others in state and
federal courts.
Mr. Barbose is a graduate of the University of California,
Berkeley, and Hastings College of the Law.
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Stephen
K. Butler
Steve Butler is the head of the firm’s land
use department. Prior to joining the firm in 1992,
he was for many years the Chief Deputy in the Sonoma
County Counsel’s office in charge of the land
use section. While there, he was responsible for the
legal work in developing and implementing the County’s
General Plan and Zoning Ordinance.
In his practice with the firm, Mr. Butler represents
national and local developers, ranchers, farmers,
wineries and individuals in land use matters. He has
led teams of professionals in securing approvals for
shopping centers, wineries, multi- and single-family
residential projects, golf courses, surface mining
operations and other business ventures.
Mr. Butler graduated magna cum laude from the University
of California, Davis, where he was elected to Phi
Beta Kappa. He received his law degree from the University
of California, Hastings College of Law. He also taught
land use law at Empire Law School.
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Clayton
E.
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Clay Clement is a business trial lawyer. His practice
is largely devoted to real estate litigation, including
property tax, broker liability, eminent domain, partnership
and other business disputes involving real property.
He has also handled contract, anti-trust, unfair competition,
false advertising, title insurance and employment
litigation.
He has handled major property tax cases throughout
California involving oil, gas, geothermal and refinery
properties. He has also handled escrow and title insurance
disputes, contract cases and many cases involving
the wine industry. He has tried over 100 cases before
state courts in more than 15 California counties and
federal district and bankruptcy court and before assessment
appeals boards and state administrative agencies.
Mr. Clement is an honors graduate of the University
of the Pacific and received his law degree from Boalt
Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley. In addition to
his practice, he has taught real estate and litigation
subjects at Kennedy Law School, Sonoma State University,
Santa Rosa Junior College and the Hastings College
of Law Business Litigation Institute.
Mr. Clement is a member of the panel of ADR neutrals
at Resolution Remedies, a major Bay Area provider
of mediation and arbitration services.
Mr. Clement is a Fellow of the American College of
Trial Lawyers and a member of the American Board of
Trial Advocates, two organizations where membership
is available only by invitation and only to the most
capable and experienced trial counsel.
In September of 2004, Mr. Clement was selected as
on of the Top 100 lawyers in Northern California in
a broad survey of lawyers conducted by Law & Politics
Magazine and published in San Francisco Magazine.
His biography has appeared in Who's Who in America,
Who's Who in American Law and Best Lawyers in America.
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Anthony
Cohen
Anthony Cohen is a senior member of the firm’s
litigation department whose broad experience in the
resolution of complex, high-profile, high-stakes
disputes involving both private parties and
governmental agencies also renders him highly
qualified to head the firm’s Indian law section.
Tony’s experience includes state and federal
litigation and negotiated resolution of business,
land use, construction, real property, and
environmental disputes, and advocacy for a wide
range of clients in federal, state, and local
governmental negotiations. In addition to his
non-tribal work, Tony currently represents two
northern California tribes and a tribal consortium
health clinic. A substantial part of his work for
them is devoted to issues of tribal sovereignty,
internal self-governance and regulation, and entry
into intergovernmental agreements, including
tribal-state compacts, pertaining to tribal gaming.
Mr. Cohen is a graduate of the
University of Illinois and the University of San
Francisco School of Law. He has taught courses on
Indian Law at Sonoma State University, and has
participated in symposia and lectures on the subject
at other institutions.
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Peter
DeGolia
Pete DeGolia is a senior member of the firm’s
litigation practice. He has over 15 years of experience
in business and real estate litigation. He is the
principal lawyer responsible for the firm’s
representation of the title insurance industry, where
he has counseled national and regional title companies
and has represented them in title insurance, escrow
liability and other litigation.
He also has wide experience in real estate broker,
commercial landlord-tenant, easement and boundary
line disputes. Mr. DeGolia also has experience in
other business litigation, including contract, employment
and unfair business practice matters.
Mr. DeGolia is a graduate of Montgomery High School
in Santa Rosa, the University of California, Berkeley,
and the University of San Francisco School of Law.
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Paul
J. Fitzpatrick
Paul Fitzpatrick is of counsel to the firm. He handles
business and real estate litigation matters. Before
joining the firm in 1978, he was an Assistant United
States Attorney in San Francisco.
He is a graduate of the University of Arizona and
an honors graduate of Boalt Hall Law School at UC
Berkeley.
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Randy
Kenworthy
Randy Kenworthy is the business lawyer who heads the
firm’s transaction and estate planning departments.
He has broad experience in planning and documenting
real estate and other business transactions, including
the purchase, sale and leasing of large apartment
houses, shopping centers, office complexes and such
specialty properties as motor speedways, school campuses
and mushroom farms.
He has represented public companies, governmental
agencies, Indian tribes and private individuals in
all aspects of major transactions for more than 25
years. He is also responsible for the firm’s
estate planning practice, where he counsels clients
on estate planning and estate tax questions and drafts
wills, trusts and other instruments to put the plans
into effect.
Mr. Kenworthy, a life-long resident of Sonoma County,
is a graduate of the University of San Francisco School
of Law.
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Jeffrey
S. Lyons
Jeffrey Lyons is an associate in the firm's litigation
department. He joined the firm in January 2004. His
emphasis is on real estate litigation, including matters
involving easements, boundary lines, vineyard development
and contract disputes. Jeff graduated from the University
of San Francisco School of Law, cum laude, where he
was a member of the McAuliffe Honor Society and earned
American Jurisprudence Awards for excellence in Legal
Research and Writing I, Legal Research and Writing II,
and Professional Responsibility.
In 2002, Jeff was recognized by the San Francisco Superior
Court as a Court Mediator for its Small Claims Division.
He has also participated as a party representative in
EEOC mediations and is the author of “Be Prepared”:
When Unsuspecting Employers are Vulnerable for Title
VII Sexual Harassment Claims, 37 U.S.F. L. Rev. 467
(2003).
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Robert
L. Quail
Robert L. Quail joined Clement, Fitzpatrick & Kenworthy
after nearly a decade of service as Vice President/General
Counsel for Kendall-Jackson Wine Estates and almost
twenty years of practice. Mr. Quail has extensive experience
with all aspects of real estate acquisition, leasing
and financing for wineries and other businesses, developers,
investors, landlords, tenants, and lenders. In addition,
Mr. Quail also continues his representation of wineries
and grape growers in the areas of general business and
beverage alcohol law.
While at Kendall-Jackson, Mr. Quail provided advice
and counsel for one of the fastest growing and most
dynamic companies in the wine industry. He managed the
legal issues in all real estate and business acquisitions,
helping guide the company through the acquisition and
development of thousands of acres of vineyards and several
wineries on four continents. He advised the company
on corporate compliance, human resource management and
trademark development and protection, and on matters
unique to the wine industry, such as the laws and regulations
surrounding viticulture, wine production, and wine distribution
throughout the U.S. and the world.
Mr. Quail received undergraduate degrees in business
economics and political science from the University
of California, Santa Barbara in 1978 and his MBA and
Law degrees from Santa Clara University in 1984. He
is a board member of Children & Family Circle, a
Sonoma County agency providing infant and toddler daycare
services for at-risk children, and is a member of the
Board of Trustees for the Oak Grove School District
in West Sonoma County. He has previously served a five-year
term as a board member of the Lattice Foundation, a
Sonoma County school serving autistic children and others
with developmental and educational disabilities.
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Lauriann Tasker
Lauriann Tasker is a probate, estate planning and real
estate transaction lawyer. She first joined
the firm in 2001 after completing her
duties on the staff of the Sonoma County Superior
Court. Ms. Tasker is an honors graduate of the
State University of New York, Albany. She
received her law degree (cum laude) from the
University of San Francisco, where she was a member
of the McAuliffe Honor Society. In her
practice, she assists individuals in planning their
estates, drafting revocable and irrevocable trusts
and drafting wills. She represents individual
and institutional representatives in the probate of
estates. She also represents individual,
corporate and partnership real estate investors in
drafting contracts, leases, loan documents and
operating documents for corporations, partnerships,
LLCs and other entities.
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Kathleen
Winter
Kathleen Winter is an associate in the firm’s
land use department. Before joining the firm in January
of 2002, she was with Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty
of Napa, where she represented farmers, land owners
and developers in a range of land use matters.
She is a graduate of the University of Texas, with
a masters degree from Boston College and her law degree
with honors from UC Davis.
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