From left: Christian Contreras and Edwin S. Salguero
Los Angeles
Civil rights, personal injury & criminal defense
One can walk from skid row to Loyola Law School in less than an hour, but to Christian M. Contreras -- who spent a couple of years starting at age 12 living unhoused in downtown Los Angeles with his mom -- the gulf seemed unimaginable.
"A stark contrast," said Contreras, who nevertheless made the leap from the streets and the shelters, got a Loyola law degree, opened his own...
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