Charisse L. Smith

Associate

Ontario
3500 Porsche Way
Suite 200

TEL: (909) 466-4913
Charisse.Smith@bbklaw.com

Municipal & Redevelopment Law

Ms. Smith is an Associate in the Ontario office of Best Best & Krieger LLP.  She is a member of the Litigation and Municipal and Redevelopment Law, and Bankruptcy practice groups.  Ms. Smith has experience with resolving general business disputes, as well as disputes involving California franchise laws.  She routinely deals with litigation for the appointment of receivers to oversee the rehabilitation of substandard housing under Health and Safety Code Section 17980.7 and commercial business and building Litigation under Business and Professions Code Section 17200.

Ms. Smith has provided counsel to the Ontario Code Enforcement Department at administrative nuisance abatement proceedings.  She has also successfully petitioned the court for receivers over several substandard single family and multi-unit dwellings in Ontario and over three multi-unit apartment buildings in Moreno Valley.

Ms. Smith received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California Law School.  While in law school, she participated in the Hale Moot Court Honors Program.  Ms. Smith also worked as an extern for Judge Mitchel R. Goldberg at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Central District of California.  Ms. Smith holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Legal Studies from Claremont  McKenna College where she graduated, magna cum laude, in 1997.

Ms. Smith is a member of the State Bar of California, the American Bar Association, and the Riverside County Bar Association and is admitted to practice with the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Bar & Court Admissions

• California, 2001

Education

• JD, University of Southern California Law School
• BA, Claremont McKenna College, Claremont