Englander Knabe & Allen senior vice president Alex Cherin is quoted in a recent Transport Topics article entitled, “Nation’s Ports Set Records, but Concerns Heighten Over Tariffs”:

One trucking official said while some have suggested fear of tariffs is helping to lift recent port volume, he believes the results are more business-driven.

“It has been a pretty consistent climb over the last few years in terms of volumes,” Alex Cherin, executive director of the California Trucking Association’s Intermodal Carriers Conference, told Transport Topics. “There has been a little bit of rumbling [that] the tariff issue will impact some of the volume coming into the West Coast because that is predominantly Chinese-originated cargo, but we haven’t seen that just yet. By all other indications it’s full steam ahead.”

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EKA founding member Harvey Englander is quoted in a recent article on 9900 Wilshire Boulevard:

“People in Beverly Hills compare the two sites since they were entitled at virtually the same exact time,” said Harvey Englander, who has been a consultant at the 9900 Wilshire site several times and does lobbying for Beverly Hilton and Waldorf-Astoria owner Oasis West. “The Wanda site has gone through ownership changes. There’s been demolition and some water pipe work done. You compare that to right across the street, which was entitled a month later and had to face a referendum, which slowed it down some more, and you have a Waldorf hotel, which is surpassing everyone’s expectations.”

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EKA partner Eric Rose was quoted in a recent Las Vegas Review Journal article on the MGM Resorts International public relations disaster over their lawsuit against shooting victims:

The company was “dealt a bad hand” in having to file a lawsuit that could expedite the case, said Eric Rose, a partner at California-based crisis management firm Englander Knabe & Allen. However, MGM should have explained its actions before the media picked up on the lawsuit, he said.

“They couldn’t explain the lawsuit in a sound bite and therefore they are suffering the consequences with bad headlines. It makes it look like they are going after the victims. It is going to hurt their brand.”

Rose told the Review-Journal he expects MGM to see an immediate loss in bookings and canceled stays in the short term.

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Englander Knabe & Allen partner Eric Rose was mentioned in recent coverage of the Moreno Valley Logistics Center EIR report litigation:

Highland Fairview spokesman Eric Rose said the voiding of the environmental report was not at all a crippling blow.

“When an EIR is found to need additional updates, no matter how small, the EIR is decertified until updated,” Rose said via email.

And Rose said the firm is already addressing deficiencies.

“The EIR update is underway and should be completed in short order,” he said.

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Englander Knabe & Allen partner Eric Rose was quoted in a recent article published at the Health News Florida website entitles “Doctor Wins $1.5M In Case Of Mistaken Identity”:

The report containing Garcia’s name was compiled by Eric W. Rose, a Los Angeles public-relations expert who consults on “crisis communications” with celebrities, business leaders and others who suffer a black mark on their image. Lopez’s lawyers hired Rose to rate the behavior of OptumRx and calculate damages to the doctor.

Rose said that when he first heard the case described he was skeptical. But after studying the records and phone recordings, he said, it was clear that OptumRx failed to investigate the problem, let alone fix it, for an outrageous length of time.

“Dr. Lopez and others called over and over again, asking why (OptumRx sources) were disseminating false information to his patients. And they didn’t react. They took his information and promised to correct it and never did,” Rose said.

“It was heartbreaking to hear the people who were calling, wondering why the prescriptions couldn’t be filled, being told information that truly wasn’t accurate,” Rose said. ”These are elderly people, many of whom don’t have English as their first language.”

Rose’s report identifies the OptumRx vendor that made the error as Enclarity Inc. of Irvine, Calif.

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Englander Knabe & Allen partner Eric Rose was quoted in a USA Today article entitled, “Stormy Daniels’ lawyer: Trump attorney Michael Cohen got $500K from Russian-linked firm”:

Broidy has previously acknowledged that Cohen helped arrange payments totaling $1.6 million to a Playboy model who said Brody had impregnated her.

In a statement Tuesday night, Broidy spokesman Eric Rose said the payments included in the Avenatti document represent a common way to handle a settlement agreement and don’t amount to “nefarious” activity.

“As is typical in legal settlements, a client often pays money to a lawyer’s client trust account and the lawyer then forwards the funds,” Rose said. “This is common practice. It is disappointing that Michael Avenatti is attempting to make legitimate transactions look nefarious by releasing a document with no context.”

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Englander Knabe & Allen senior vice president Alex Cherin was quoted in an article entitled, “PierPass to Adopt Appointment System and Flat Fee for OffPeak Program,” as featured on CustomerZone360.com:

“The California Trucking Association appreciates the proposal put forth by PierPass regarding its re-structuring of the TMF,” said Alex Cherin, Executive Director of the CTA Intermodal Conference. “This is the culmination of many collaborative discussions between the marine terminal operators and trucking communities over the last few years, and we look forward to supporting these efforts.”

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Englander Knabe & Allen senior vice president Alex Cherin is quoted in a recent Daily Breeze article entitled “$130 million Port of LA container staging facility promises to boost productivity, create jobs, ease congestion“:

Alex Cherin, executive director of the California Trucking Association’s Intermodal Conference, said the staging hub will be “a game changer.”

“HPEC’s innovative approach will relieve congestion throughout the region, increase cargo velocity through the port, lower handling costs, reduce emissions and dramatically improve freight flow efficiencies in the San Pedro Bay complex”, Cherin said in a statement. “The trucking community and its customers will have one start-stop location to pick up and drop off containers, distributing to regional hubs around the clock.”

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Englander Knabe & Allen senior vice president Alex Cherin is quoted in a recent Long Beach Business Journal article entitled “Recommended Changes To PierPass Program Released“:

Alex Cherin, executive director of the California Trucking Association (CTA) Intermodal Conference, was generally in favor of the recommendations. “We appreciate the effort that the terminal operators and PierPass took to review some of the feedback that they’ve received from stakeholders over the last couple of years,” Cherin said. His organization, as well as other supply chain stakeholder associations, have previously expressed discontentment with the current PierPass system due to congestion caused when terminals switch between day and night shifts, as well as cost impacts associated with night time work.

“The trucking community is generally supportive of the option that would spread out the traffic between both the day and the night shifts and then use sort of a robust appointment system,” Cherin said, noting that he supports the idea of a flat fee. “Of course, the devil is in the details and we want to make sure that the appointment structure that they put together is viable and you know can be delivered,” he added. Cherin said the recommendations could be implemented within the next few months.

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