ASSOCIATE JUSTIN KEVIN CHEN, J.D.

JUSTIN KEVIN CHEN is a non-admitted law Associate at WILLIAMS WOLLITZ HAKAKIAN PC.  MR. CHEN is a native of the Los Angeles area and earned his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California.  While at Pepperdine Law, he served as the Literary Citation Editor for the Journal of the National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary as well as Chair of the Armand Arabian Advocacy Tournament Chair under Pepperdine Law’s Moot Court Board.  

Before joining, MR. CHEN worked at two midsize, plaintiff-side employment law firms in Los Angeles County, where he specialized in personal injury, auto-accident, class action, environmental law, and California Voting Rights Act cases.  In college, he interned at the predecessor to WILLIAMS WOLLITZ HAKAKIAN PC in Century City, where he assisted the legal team on wills, trusts, and estate cases, general business litigation matters, as well as healthcare provider recovery actions.  

MR. CHEN is experienced in immigration law as well - - specifically with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.   Under this program, investors (and their spouses and unmarried children under 21) are eligible to apply for a Green Card (permanent residence) if they make the necessary investment in a commercial enterprise in the United States and plan to create or preserve 10 permanent full-time jobs for qualified U.S. workers.  MR. CHEN worked closely with one of the founding partners of the firm, SHEL LYTTON, in obtaining foreign investment for MR. LYTTON'S Avensole Winery in the Temecula Valley.  MR. CHEN is bilingual, being fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English. 

Prior to law school, MR. CHEN received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he majored in Political Science. 

MR. CHEN resides on the Palos Verdes Peninsula with his fiancée.