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Your banking choices can create new beginnings for the formerly incarcerated
Values-based banks invest your money in ways that benefit local communities and protect the planet. (sponsored)
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Oakland firm’s newest attorney has substantial experience in civil litigation
A graduate of Mills College and Golden Gate University Law School, Angelina Austin is now an attorney with Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer.
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Attorney returns to Oakland firm he clerked with, rises to partner
Gwilliam, Ivary, Choisso, Cavalli & Brewer’s newest partner, Winston Moody, enjoys “fighting the good fight.”
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Lawyer, CHP officers and others accused in murder case, seeking justice
Oakland firm Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli & Brewer is representing several plaintiffs that say that they were framed by police and prosecutors.
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How do your beliefs affect investing success?
If there were a common, misguided idea about financial markets that you held, would you change it?
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How to support the fabric of our communities through values-based banking
Oakland’s Red Door Catering got a leg up from Accion Opportunity Fund and then gave a big hand to Oakland residents with meals during the pandemic.
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Past performance is no guarantee of future results
There are no crystal balls, and no one can predict the short-term outcome of investments.
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Investing in renewable energy: Where you bank matters to the environment
Too many large banks pay lip service to social and environmental causes, but continue to use their depositors’ money to fund the fossil fuels industry.
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Local chef invited to swap gas range for an eco-friendly induction cooktop
Award-winning chef Reem Assil, owner of eateries in Fruitvale and San Francisco, tests out a powerful cooktop that eliminates the carbon monoxide of gas ranges.
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Dozens of longtime employees are suing Farmers Insurance for age discrimination
The Oakland-based law firm Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli and Brewer is representing the plaintiffs. (sponsored)
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Speculation is the Siren’s song of investing
Thoughtful investing is being drowned out by noise. This is not investing: it’s speculation. And mistaking one for the other is one of the biggest errors long-term investors make.
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Reduce, reuse, recycle, and reinvest: We can build a greener future through banking
Spending and banking decisions are akin to economic votes. How we cast them impacts the people and issues we value. (sponsored)
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Dave ‘Davey D’ Cook, the ‘hardest working man in hip hop,’ passes the baton to a new generation
Davey D will appear live May 2 in a free Bay Area Book Festival conversation with Jeff Chang about their co-authored YA version of Chang’s hip hop classic, ‘Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.’
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Are the markets in bubble territory? How do we know?
We’ve been getting the bubble question since 2014. We weren’t in a bubble then and, while things are not ‘cheap,’ there are investments that are looking frothier these days.
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When Women Lose, We All Lose
Supporting mission-aligned banks can help create economic opportunity for women in Oakland (sponsored)
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After six decades, Gary Gwilliam is still seeking justice for plaintiffs
There may never be another trial lawyer quite like the founder of the Oakland-based firm Gwilliam, Ivary, Chiosso, Cavalli and Brewer.
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Giving is receiving: You will benefit yourself, as well as others, by being generous
One of the unexpected by-products of generosity, perhaps surprisingly, is that the giver receives benefits from giving along with the recipient of the gift. (sponsored)
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Aurora’s new middle school opens this fall
Sponsored: Aurora, a school steeped in experiential and social-emotional learning, will open to a mixed cohort of 6th and 7th graders in the fall, followed by 8th graders in 2022.
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Attorney Randall Strauss has helped unfairly victimized workers for three decades
The longtime trial lawyer continues to advocate for justice as managing partner of the Oakland-based firm Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Cavalli and Brewer. (sponsored)
