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G. Henry Welles Assumes Leadership Role

For Immediate Release: Feb. 21, 2011
Media Contact: Jennifer Bowles • 951.826.8480 • jennifer.bowles@BBKlaw.com

INDIAN WELLES, Calif. _ G. Henry Welles, a partner with Best Best & Krieger whose practice focuses on trust and estate litigation and intellectual property law , was recently named managing partner of the law firm’s Indian Wells office, one of nine offices across California and in Washington D.C.

Welles will oversee the day-to-day operations, strategic direction and long-term business development for the Indian Wells office where the firm’s clients include special districts, businesses, school districts and cities such as Palm Desert, Indian Wells and Coachella.

A five-attorney executive committee, which makes key decisions for the law firm, appointed Welles to the leadership position. He replaces Robert Hargreaves, a partner who remains based in Indian Wells and specializes in general municipal, land use and energy law.

“I have worked at Best Best & Krieger my entire career and it’s an honor and a privilege to be entrusted to lead one of the offices,” said Welles, who joined BB&K in 1991 after receiving his law degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo.

Welles is best known for his ongoing work on trust and estate litigation matters in the Coachella Valley, and patent and trademark infringement cases involving Ernie Ball, Inc., a famous Coachella Valley-based manufacturer of guitar and bass strings. In 2010, The Daily Journal, California’s largest legal daily newspaper, named Welles one of the state’s top 75 litigators in intellectual property law.

Welles also serves as general counsel to the Mirada Community Association of which the Ritz Carlton hotel property in Rancho Mirage is a member

Welles is a member of the Riverside County C.A.R.E. Team, which is a state-funded multidisciplinary task force devoted to the prevention of elder abuse.