About Benjamin
Licenses
Licensed in New York for 21 years
State: New York
Acquired: 2005
No misconduct found
Licensed in California for 16 years
State: California
Acquired: 2010
No misconduct found
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Experience
Honors
2020
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2019
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2018
Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
2014
Best Of The Bar, San Diego Business Journal
Work Experience
2013 - Present
Attorney, Law Offices of Benjamin J. Cheeks
2013 - Present
Adjunct Professor, California Western School Of Law
2013 - 2014
Adjunct Professor, Thomas Jefferson Law School
2010 - 2013
Assistant U.S. Attorney, United States Attorneys Office For The Southern District Of California
2003 - 2010
Assistant District Attorney, District Attorney's Office, New York County
Associations
2016 - Present
Trial Bar News for Consumer Attorneys of San DiegoColumn Editor - Criminal Law
2015 - Present
San Diego County Indigent Criminal Defense FundBoard of Directors
2015 - Present
Earl B. Gilliam Bar FoundationBoard of Directors
2014 - Present
Consumer Attorneys of San DiegoMember
2013 - Present
San Diego County Bar AssociationMember
2013 - Present
Earl B. Gilliam Bar AssociationParliamentarian
2013 - Present
Louis M. Welsh American Inn of CourtBarrister
Education
2003
JD - Juris Doctor
2000
BA - Bachelor of Arts
Publications
2016
2016
2015
Languages
English
Activity
Legal Answers
Legal Answers
Why would the Feds pick up a state case??
22 Jan 2015
Are Federal inmates doing 85% or %65 percent of there time ????
12 Jan 2014
Do i need a second opinion. My attorney is not listening to me. I feel like he does not have my best interest.
03 Jan 2014