RIVERSIDE, Calif. _ Best Best & Krieger LLP recently hired four associates to join the firm’s growing municipal and redevelopment law practice in its Los Angeles, San Diego and Ontario offices.

The new attorneys include Robert M. Shaw and Hannah Schartiger, as well as Rebecca Andrews and Curtis R. Wright, both of whom were summer associates with BB&K in 2009.

“We welcome the new attorneys to a growing and thriving practice here at BB&K,” said attorney Dean Derleth, a BB&K partner who oversees the firm's municipal and redevelopment law practice and serves as city attorney to Corona and Colton.

 

BB&K’s municipal law practice was recently infused with 14 attorneys from the Sacramento law firm of McDonough Holland & Allen, which wound down operations earlier this year. All together, 19 former McDonough attorneys joined BB&K’s Sacramento office in September. In addition, three veteran litigators from Akerman Senterfitt recently joined BB&K’s municipal practice in Los Angeles.

Shaw, a recent addition to BB&K’s Los Angeles office, also came from Akerman Senterfitt, where he focused on construction litigation, arbitration and mediation for public and private clients, subcontractors, contractors and design professionals. Shaw graduated from the College of Law at Syracuse University in May 2004 and, at the same time, received a master's degree in public administration from the university's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. Previously, Shaw worked as the assistant to the director of public works at the city of Long Beach where he researched environmental impacts and land-use restrictions for proposed projects.

Wright, a former Army captain who fought in Iraq as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom, is based in BB&K’s Ontario office. Wright graduated from the University of La Verne College of Law in May 2010.

Schartiger, a civil engineer turned attorney, joined the firm’s San Diego office. She graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in December 2009. Prior to BB&K, Schartiger worked for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command in San Diego as a senior construction claims engineer.

Andrews, who received a master’s degree in theology, joined BB&K’s San Diego office. She graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law in May 2010.

Wright, Schartiger and Andrews passed the California bar exam that was given in July.