Chain, Cohn, Stiles keeps downtown presence

When Morris B. Chain left the University of Southern California in 1934, law degree in hand, the fresh-faced lawyer didn't find many help-wanted signs in Depression-era Bakersfield. So he made his own opportunity.

Opening a practice in the Haberfelde Building downtown, the Russian emigre, who grew up in Bakersfield, began laying the foundation for what would become one of the most prominent and longs