Wendel Rosen's Charles Hansen Selected as Oakland Real Estate Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers

Online, February 25, 2010 (Newswire.com) - PRESS RELEASE
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WENDEL ROSEN'S CHARLES HANSEN SELECTED AS OAKLAND REAL ESTATE LAWYER OF THE YEAR BY BEST LAWYERS

OAKLAND, Calif., Feb. 25, 2010 - Best Lawyers has named Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP Partner Charles Hansen as the "Oakland Best Lawyers Real Estate Lawyer of the Year" for 2010. Only a single lawyer per specialty area in each community is honored as "Lawyer of the Year."

"We continue to believe - as we have believed for more than 25 years - that recognition by one's peers is the most meaningful form of praise in the legal profession," said Steven Naifeh, managing editor of Best Lawyers. "We would like to congratulate Chuck on being selected as the 'Oakland Best Lawyers Real Estate Lawyer of the Year' for 2010."

Hansen, who has practiced law for more than 30 years, focuses on real estate, commercial and secured transactions litigation. He concentrates on a variety of transactional and state and federal court matters relating to commercial and real estate lending, real estate transactions, mortgages, trust deeds, brokers, escrow, title insurance, commercial leasing, real estate development, guaranties and personal property-secured transactions. Hansen has formerly served on Wendel Rosen's Management Committee and as the firm's managing partner.

Hansen is a frequent mediator, arbitrator and judge pro tem and is a member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. For 25 years, he has taught advanced courses in a wide variety of real estate and finance law subject matters at University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

He received his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (1977) and his B.A., summa cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles (1973).

About Best Lawyers

Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leadings lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers. The current, 16th edition of The Best Lawyers in America (2010) is based on more than 2.8 million detailed evaluations of lawyers by other lawyers. The lawyers honored as "Lawyers of the Year" have received particularly high ratings in our surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.

About Wendel Rosen

Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP serves a diverse clientele of business, public and individual clients located throughout California and the United States. With offices in Oakland and Modesto, California, the 100-year-old firm advises clients on transactional and civil litigation matters in several related fields of law, including real estate; business/corporate; construction; creditors' rights/bankruptcy; eminent domain; employment; environmental; estate planning, trusts and probate; green business; insurance; intellectual property; land use; taxation; and technology.

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