| Mei-Fei Kuo |
Mei-Fei KuoAssociate Phone: (808) 524-1800 Download PDF: Mei-Fei Kuo has over 10 years of legal experience in Honolulu and Washington, D.C. She practices environmental law, general commercial litigation, real property law, and medical malpractice defense. Ms. Kuo assists clients in resolving their corporate and real property disputes and specializes in environmental law, where she has advised clients in both administrative and judicial proceedings related to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Hawaii Environmental Response Law (HRS Chapter 128D), Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), the Solid Waste Disposal Act (SWDA), the Hawaii Underground Storage Tank Law (HRS Chapter 342L), and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. Prior to joining the firm, she was an attorney with the United States, Department of Justice in Washington D.C., working in the Environmental Torts Section, where she defended the United States in toxic tort actions related to petroleum releases, hazardous and solid waste contamination, and other air, chemical, surface water, and groundwater contamination. She also served as a judicial law clerk for Associate Justice Simeon R. Acoba of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. Kuo is a former Chair of the Natural Resources Section and the current Co-Chair of the 2011 Leadership Institute Program for the Hawaii State Bar for which she was also selected as a 2010 Fellow in the Leadership Program. She was invited to speak at the International Environmental Forensics Conference in Qingdao, China (May 2008) to provide a presentation entitled, Overview of United States Environmental Laws and Remediation Techniques for Contaminated Property, and she has authored the following publications, among others, (1) the Hawaii Chapter in Business Torts, A Fifty-State Guide Desk Reference (Contributing Author and Editor for the 2007-2011 Editions), (2) Use of Hawaii Brownfields Clean-up Revolving Loan Funds, Hawai`i State Bar Association, Special Supplement (October 2006), and (3) Hawaii Chapter on Survey of Employment Privacy Law for Media Law Resource Center (Contributing Author for the 2008-2010 Editions). Kuo is a graduate of the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson, School of Law, where she graduated Cum Laude, and the University of Hawaii, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude and with Academic Distinction. Kuo speaks conversational Mandarin and Taiwanese. Practice AreasEnvironmental Law Admitted to Practice
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