The Dallas/Fort Worth leader is James Yoder, a 22-yearindustry veteran who joined the firm last year as a managingdirector along with several other key players from Trammell CrowCo.'s former camp after its merger with CB Richard Ellis. Atlanta'snew market director will be Clark S. Gore, another 20-plus-yearveteran who comes on board March 1. GlobeSt.com has been told thatanother market director will be disclosed in a few weeks anddecisions are being made about the last two markets.

JLL's market directors will be liaisons among practice groupsand their national leaders and local quarterbacks to expandrespective shops, whether it's the head count, service lines orboth. "My role is to be the external face of JLL in the market andcontinue the momentum we have in the market, win more business andmake JLL the best in Dallas," Yoder explains about the newlycreated role in Dallas. "My job is to pull all the practice linestogether, make sure they're communicating and leveraging off eachother's business."

Yoder says the Dallas office is up to 115 brokers and supportstaff, nearly doubling in size in the past year. His chargeincludes launching JLL's first industrial team in the market, aninitiative that was seeded in August 2007 when the brokerage househired CraigMeyer in Los Angeles as director of the national industrialpractice. "Dallas is one of the markets that we've ID'd to plant anindustrial flag in the ground," Yoder says, adding that interviewsare under way with "two or three" senior brokers to lead the push.His goal is to roll out a team in 30 to 45 days.