Current Employment Position(s)

Counsel/Staff Attorney

Year Joined Organization: 1989

Areas of Practice

• Commercial Litigation
• Insurance Coverage and Insurance Insolvency
• Employment Litigation
• Personal Injury
• Disabled Rights

West Practice Categories

Business & Commercial Law, Constitutional Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff

Bar Admissions

• Hawaii, 1985
• California, 1984
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1988

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Hawaii Lawyers Care Pro Bono Project, 1987 - 1991 (Director)
• Hawaii Lawyers Care Pro Bono Project, 1985 - Present (Treasurer)
• State Bar of California (Member)
• Hawaii State Bar (Member)
• McCorriston Miho Miller Mukai, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1989 - Present (Member, Hiring Committee)
• McCorriston Miho Miller Mukai, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1995 (Member, Committee on Continuing Legal Education)
• American Bar Association, Tort and Insurance Practice Litigation Sections (Member)
• Hawaii State Bar, Litigation Section (Member)
• Hawaii State Bar, Chairman, 1992 (Standing Committee on Delivery of Legal Services to the Public)
• American Bar Association, Litigation Section (Member)
• Hawaii Defense Lawyers Association (Member)

Classes and Seminars

• Faculty, Motor Accident Law, Hawaii Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1990
• Faculty, Motor Vehicle Accident Law Update, Hawaii Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1994
• Faculty, Litigation Seminar of Legal Secretaries, "Post Trial Practice", Legal Seminars, Inc., 1987 - 1995
• Faculty, Litigation Seminar for Legal Secretaries and Legal Assistants "Trial Practice", Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 1995

Past Employment Positions

• McCorriston Miho Miller Mukai, Honolulu, Hawaii, Associate, 1989 - 1991
• Roeca & Louie, Honolulu, Hawaii, Associate, 1988 - 1989
• Case & Lynch, Honolulu, Hawaii, Member, Hiring Committee, 1986 - 1988
• Case & Lynch, Honolulu, Hawaii, Associate, 1984 - 1988
• State of Hawaii Insurance Commissioner, Special Counsel
• Hawaiian Insurance & Guaranty Company, Limited, Rehabilitator
• Investors Equity Life Insurance Company of Hawaii, Ltd., Liquidator

Education

• University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Berkeley, California, 1984
  J.D.
• University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, 1981
  B.S.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Beta Gamma Sigma
  Honors: Phi Kappa Phi

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Kappa Phi
• Beta Gamma Sigma

Published Works

• Defense Trial Tactics, Hawaii Motor Vehicle Collision Manual
• Work Site Accident Cases, Tort Immunity for the Employer, (Co-Author), Hawaii Tort Liability Issues

Address

Five Waterfront Plaza, 4th Floor
500 Ala Moana Boulevard
Honolulu, HI 96813

Phones

(808) 529-7300

Faxes

(808) 524-8293

Websites

http://www.m4law.com