About Kevin Cholakian

Kevin K. Cholakian was born and raised on his family’s farm in Central San Joaquin Valley, attending public schools in the Tulare and Fresno counties until his senior year in high school when he was awarded a full scholarship for Music Performance (French Horn) to North Carolina School of the Arts (a boarding school for the performing arts), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mr. Cholakian then attended San Francisco Conservatory of Music on a Ford Foundation Scholarship from 1972-1973. After deciding on changing his career objectives, he graduated magna-cum laude with a B.A. in Philosophy in 1977 from CSUF (Fresno). From 1976 to 1978, he served as Chief Administrative Assistant to California State Senator Rose Ann Vuich (the first woman ever elected to the California State Senate) where he was responsible for the Central California field offices (covering Modesto to Bakersfield) and the Sacramento legislative office.

He received his law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in 1981. At Hastings, he was Associate Executive Editor of the Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal and was a Law Review Scholarship recipient.

Mr. Cholakian began his legal career as a litigator with the management employment law firm of Littler, Mendelson, Fastiff & Tichy and the product liability section of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (now McCutchen Bingham) both in San Francisco.

He subsequently joined and then managed the defense practice at Kinder, Wuerfel & Cholakian (1988 through 1999), a 25 attorney insurance defense firm in San Francisco.

He began Cholakian and Associates in January 2000.