• Justice may be blind, but she has very sophisticated listening devices.
    – Edgar Argo
  • Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
    – Benjamin Franklin
  • When your conscience says law is immoral, don’t follow it.
    – Jack Kevorkian, MD
  • It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
    – Rev. M.L. King, Jr.
  • The United States is the greatest law factory the world has ever known.
    – C.E. Hughes
  • This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
    – O.W. Holmes, Jr., J.J.
  • No man is above the law, and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man’s permission when we require him to obey it.
    -  Theo. Roosevelt
  • The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread.
    – Anatole France
  • I’ve never had a problem with drugs.  I’ve had problems with the police.
    – Keith Richards
  • Lawsuit: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. Litigant: A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.
    – Ambrose Bierce

Clients trust California attorney Sarkis Jacob Babachanian to counsel and protect them for good reason; he’s experienced, skilled, ethical – and he cares.

Babachanian is admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California, and in all California courts. Babachanian has appeared in court thousands of times and served in every courthouse in Los Angeles County (except at Avalon on Santa Catalina Island) as well as in Orange, Ventura, Riverside and San Bernardino counties.

Babachanian’s criminal defense practice serves adults and juveniles accused of felony and misdemeanor crimes in California and federal courts.

Babachanian’s civil litigation practice includes accidents (car, motorcycle, bicycle, bus, pedestrian and premises liability cases), police misconduct and brutality actions, property damage insurance claims (fire, flood, theft, etc.), business lawsuits (breach of contract claims, partnership disputes, trade secrets actions, collections, etc.) and bankruptcy adversary proceedings (lawsuits inside bankruptcy court).

Babachanian handles business transactions including business entity start-ups (corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, etc.), counseling business entities to avoid future problems, creating and modifying contracts and leases, protecting intellectual property (copyright and trademark registration) and more.

Babachanian represents debtors trying to get a new start in these challenging economic times by helping negotiate and settle debts and, if necessary, filing for bankruptcy protection.

Babachanian is a trained, skilled and experienced mediator of litigated cases in state and federal court.

Babachanian practices law in the Montrose neighborhood of Glendale, California. A native Angeleno born on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood, Babachanian reads, writes and speaks in both eastern and western Armenian. Our office can arrange to communicate in virtually any other language including Arabic, Farsi (Persian), French, Hebrew, Korean, Mandarin, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish and Tagalog.

People trust Babachanian for good reason. You should too.