Willard (Bill) A. Carle III - of Counsel

Experience

Mr. Carle has had extensive experience in commercial and civil litigation in federal and state courts representing clients in real estate and environmental law, contracts, partnership dissolution, unfair competition and other business torts, condemnation and construction defects, and employment law.  Mr. Carle has substantial real estate transactional experience in land use, leasing, development, purchase and sales documentation (he is a licensed real estate broker).   He represents wineries and other business clients before public agencies on land use and other regulatory matters.  He represents a number of businesses as their General Corporate Counsel, providing a wide range of legal services as well as advice on operational and general business matters.  In addition to serving as Judge pro tem for Sonoma County Superior Court, Mr. Carle serves as a private arbitrator and mediator.  Mr. Carle was a partner in Anderson, Zeigler, Disharoon, Gallagher & Gray, and partner at Marron, Reid & Sheehy prior to founding Carle, Mackie, Power & Ross LLP as partner in 1998.
 
In 2005 Mr. Carle joined with local developer Hugh Futrell and construction expert Frank Gobar in forming two companies, Hugh Futrell Corporation (HFC)and CGF Equities. CGF is an acquisitions and asset holding company and HFC is an operating company with a California general contractor's license and real estate broker's license. The company develops residential, commercial, office and mixed use projects, with emphasis on urban core development and environmental design and construction. The company built the first mid-rise condominium project in Santa Rosa, and has just started construction on the first solar powered residential subdivision in the area.