
Career Highlights: Appointed by 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges, January 2007; assistant U.S. attorney, Los Angeles, 1989-2007; private practice, Los Angeles, 1987-89; attorney, Department of Justice, tax division, 1983-87, voting rights division, 1979-83 Law School: UC Hastings College of the Law, 1979
LOS ANGELES — Since moving from Santa Ana to his current office in downtown Los Angeles, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert Kwan’s view is a historic one with respect to the city and his own life and heritage.
Now, the windows spanning his office wall look out over Chinatown and the site of the Chinese Massacre of 1871, as well as the block where his grandfather’s business once stood and within sight of his old office as an as... (continued)