PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Kenneth Khachigian joins Hatch & Parent as a Senior Partner with over 30 years of strategic expertise in governmental affairs, complex business litigation, and public service. He has represented companies in diverse industries including energy, telecommunications, real estate, pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and waste management. Mr. Khachigian is widely regarded throughout California for providing exceptional counseling in government affairs, crisis management and strategic problem solving – navigating clients across the terrain where legal, government and public issues intersect. In this role, Mr. Khachigian has led successful negotiations of major litigations and disputes for private and public agency clients. He will be working with Hatch & Parent's Environmental Quality group based in Los Angeles.

He began his distinguished public service career in the White House at a young age, rising to Deputy Special Assistant under President Richard Nixon. President Reagan commissioned him Special Consultant to the President in 1981–a senior White House adviser and Chief Speechwriter. Beginning with President Reagan's First Inaugural Address, Mr. Khachigian collaborated on dozens of major and historic political and policy speeches throughout the President’s two terms in office.

Mr. Khachigian was also a key adviser and strategist for California Governors George Deukmejian and Pete Wilson and has directed several other statewide campaigns. He served as National Senior Adviser to Presidential nominee Robert Dole in 1996 and to Senator John McCain in 2000. He is widely quoted in state and national publications, appears on prominent cable and network television programs and frequently lectures before businesses and associations on government affairs and politics.

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
California Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors
California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance, Board of Directors

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace Foundation, Director
University of California Santa Barbara Foundation, Trustee
Armenian Eyecare Project, Advisory Board

EDUCATION
Columbia University, J.D., 1969
University California Santa Barbara, B.A., (With Honors) 1966

ADMISSIONS
State Bar of California
Supreme Court of California
U.S. District Court, Central and Eastern Districts of California

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS/PUBLICATIONS
"Political Perspectives on Water Rights Transfers" – For seminar on Water Rights Sales and Transfers in California