Shellie Park-Hoapili

Shellie K. Park-Hoapili has six years of legal experience in Honolulu. She practices bankruptcy law, general commercial and civil litigation, constitutional law (specifically, Title IX), education law, employee benefits law (ERISA regulated trust funds), real property law, title insurance and escrow defense, and government relations. Park-Hoapili provides strategic legal advice and works hard for her clients to resolve their disputes. She was a member of the legal team that successfully brought a Title IX lawsuit against the Hawai`i State Department of Education and the County of Maui for their discriminatory treatment of the Baldwin High School girls' softball team. Most recently, Park-Hoapili represents lenders, both in foreclosure actions and in federal Truth-in-Lending Act cases.

Prior to joining the firm, Park-Hoapili served as a judicial law clerk for Associate Justice Paula A. Nakayama of the Hawai`i Supreme Court.

Park-Hoapili is a 2011 Fellow in the Leadership Institute Program for the Hawai`i State Bar, and is the Secretary for Hawaii Women Lawyers.

Park-Hoapili is a graduate of the University of Hawai`i, William S. Richardson School of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review and the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal, and the University of Hawai`i at Manoa.

Practice Areas

Bankruptcy
Commercial Litigation
Consitutional Law - Title IX
Civil Litigation
Education
Employee Benefits
Real Estate Litigation
Title Insurance and Escrow
Government Relations

Admitted to practice

Hawai`i
U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

Affiliations

Hawai`i State Bar Association
Hawai`i Women Lawyers
- Director
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
American Bar Association

Publications

Broken Silence: Redressing the Mass Rape and Sexual Enslavement of Asian Women by the Japanese Government in an Appropriate Forum, 3 Asian-Pac. Law & Pol'y Journal 2 (2002)
Comment, Severing the Bond of Life: When Conflicts of Interest Fail to Recognize the Value of Two Lives, 25 U. Haw. L. Rev. 157 (2002)

Education

William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, HI (J.D. 2002)
- University of Hawai`i Law Review (2002)
- Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (2001-2002)
- Edward Nakamura Memorial Research Fellow (Fall 2000)
- CALI, Excellence for the Future Award, Highest Grade, Race Culture and Law (Spring 2000)
- CALI, Excellence for the Future Award, Highest Grade, Negotiation and Alternative Dispute Resolution (Spring 2000)
- CALI, Excellence for the Future Award, Highest Grade, Second-Year Seminar (Spring 2002)
University of Hawai`i, Honolulu, HI (B.A. Political Science, 1998)

Past Positions

The Honorable Paula A. Nakayama, Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court
- Law Clerk (2003-2005)

Born

Hilo, Hawai`i

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