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BIOGRAPHY
David Lozano has a remarkable background, both professionally and personally, spanning over four decades and ranging from currently being an accomplished and well-recognized attorney in both State and Federal Court that specializes not only in business and personal finance, but is known to be an aggressive and skillful negotiator as well, advising and instructing other attorneys and law firms throughout the country.
Lozano has owned, managed and operated his own law firm and several other law firms as a senior law partner for over 30 years with numerous office locations, sometimes employing over a hundred staff and legal personnel.
And although Lozano has represented clients in a variety of areas of law ranging from criminal defense to civil contract law, Lozano is a Board-Certified Specialist in the field of finance and bankruptcy law, specifically Chapter 7, Chapter 13 and Chapter 11 cases where his law firm has saved thousands of homes from foreclosure, businesses from shutting down and family’s lives and careers from excessive debt and aggressive loan collectors.
Lozano is extremely proud of the accomplishments that he has achieved in this field which has earned him the highest respect and gratitude of the various Judges and U.S. Trustees that serve the Central and Eastern Districts of California.
Prior to becoming an attorney, Lozano was both a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff and a Reserve Police Officer for the City of Monterey Park – a law enforcement officer – but not just any law enforcement officer. Lozano was an extremely seasoned, highly experienced, well- trained deputy sheriff and police officer. The best of the best.
This was because Lozano came from one of the three most famous, historically well-known sheriff stations of old Los Angeles – Lynwood, Firestone and Lennox. These three stations were located in the center of South Central Los Angeles – Watts – known for the notorious street gangs Cripps and Bloods.
Lozano worked the graveyard shift of Lennox Sheriff’s Station – one of the highest felony arrest stations in the late ‘70’s and early 1980s. Aside from being involved in making over a hundred felony arrests, Lozano was involved in numerous life-saving rescue operations and investigative crime teams that resulted in several department accommodations.
Lozano also had the opportunity to work IRC (Inmate Reception Center) of the Men’s Main Central Jail in downtown Los Angeles, Biscailuz Center, Sybil Brand Institute, 13th Floor Jail Ward at the USC Medical Center and Wayside Honor Ranch.
Lozano earned his Juris Doctorate Degree at the University of Bridgeport, School of Law in Bridgeport Connecticut, now known as Quinnipiac University School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut in 1992. His accomplishments were many, but two that bring special pride to him were receiving the Thurgood Marshall Award and the Distinguished Academic Achievement Award. Lozano was also the first sophomore in the school’s history to be elected as the law school’s Student Body Vice-President.
Also while attending law school, Lozano was chosen to be a legal analyst for the Connecticut State Legislature, where he worked first-hand with the State elected officials. His duties required him to research and report directly to the various committees on the cause and effects of proposed legislative bills before being introduced into law.
Lozano earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science at California State University, Los Angeles where he was elected to the Student Body Council Board of Directors.
Lozano was also elected President of his college Fraternity, Sigma Nu, the same fraternity that his fellow fraternity brother, the respected California politician Michael D. Antonovich was a fraternity brother (Antonovich was Pin #1 and Lozano was Pin #212). Lozano’s credits Antonovich for inspiring him towards politics and pointing Lozano in the direction of volunteering for the Monterey Park Police Department as a Reserve Police Officer.
Interesting fact, years later, Antonovich would become the Supervisor for the 5th District of Los Angeles County, which overlaps much of the 25th Congressional District where Lozano sought a Congressional seat for in 2020.
As Lozano started his legal career, Lozano is extremely proud to have had the honor of working for the great African-American criminal defense attorney William “Bill” Moffitt (now deceased) out of Washington D.C./Virginia and his associate Lisa Kemler, now a Judge for the Alexandria Court of the 18th Circuit in Virginia. Lozano also worked for the Honorable Frederick Rotenberg (now retired) of the Superior Court of Los Angeles when the Judge was in private practice.
Lozano’s work has allowed him to travel extensively throughout the world, taking him to New Zealand, Japan, China, Hong Kong, Dubai, France, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Holland, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
Lozano has also worked in many countries such as Egypt, Mexico, Turkey, Greece, Fiji and Australia bringing a broad range and spectrum of knowledge and experience to how businesses, governments and cultures merge and cooperate to find solutions to problems and complex situations.
In the past, Lozano had taken on many character-building jobs and positions when he was in the process of creating his professional career. Some of those jobs were as a high school and grammar school teacher in both California and Connecticut, a professional sommelier and restaurateur, an international guest relations representative, an underwater dive instructor and explorer and a union clerk.
Most recently, Lozano was preparing to become a college professor where he was planning on teaching courses in history, philosophy, sociology, criminology, economics, law and political science. All of these jobs and positions, in combination with his academic achievements, gives Lozano the capacity to have the knowledge, skill, ability and experience to govern, manage, direct and most importantly . . . to lead.
And for the past 31 years, Lozano’s wife Dawn has been with him by his side the entire time. A New York girl, Dawn has both inspired Lozano and been there to pick him up and dust him off when things get tough or daunting. That could also be because they have two teenage boys, Christopher and William to keep them busy if work and sports and school and after school activities are not enough.
As for now, Lozano plans to take his life experiences and accomplishments and use them to pursue a variety of causes to help care for, aid and better society.