Lawrence D. Clapp has been appointed to...

Lawrence D. Clapp has been appointed to oversee the activities of 19 Los Angeles area Bank of America branches as head of the bank’s Los Angeles Area Management Group. Clapp, a vice president, previously was marketing director of the bank’s Los Angeles-Gold Coast Region. He succeeds John Conover, who was promoted to senior vice president and head of B of A’s 219-branch Bay Area region in Northern California.