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William M. Tam

William M. Tam,
Of Counsel

Phone: (808) 524-1800
Fax: (808) 524-4591
wtam@ahfi.com

Areas of Practice

  • Water
  • Natural Resources
  • Land Use
  • Real Property
  • Environmental Law
  • Ocean Law
  • Government
  • Administrative Law
  • Appellate Law
  • Hawaiian Land Rights
  • Complex Contested Cases and Mediation
    For major cases, see Important Cases and Task Force

Admitted to practice

  • Hawai`i
  • Hawai`i Supreme Court
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court
  • U.S. Court of Claims
  • District of Columbia

Affiliations

  • Marimed Foundation
    • Board of Trustees, Founding Member
  • Polynesian Voyaging Society, Director
  • Trust for Public Land, Hawai`i Cabinet
  • Community Conservation Network
    • Director
  • Kaneohe Bay Community Land Trust
    • Director
  • Hawai`i State Bar Association
  • Court Annexed Arbitration Program
    • Arbitrator (1990-2001)

Publications

  • At Water's Edge - Integrating Water and Land Use Planning. Hawaii Business Magazine (October 2005)
  • Time, Horizons, and the Open Seas. 17 Ocean and Coastal Management, 308-317, (Volumes 3 & 4) (1992)
  • Putting the Public Trust Doctrine to Work. Coastal States Organization, Hawai`i (NOAA) (1990)
  • Hawai`i's Perspective on Jursidictional Issues within the Exclusive Economic Zone. Pacific Basin Development Council (1988)

Awards and Recognition

  • Best Lawyers in America for Water Law (2007)
  • Hawai`i Justice Foundation, Evaluation Team (1998)
  • U.S. Department of the Interior Federal/State Task Force on Manganese Crust Mining in Hawai`i's Exclusive Economic Zone (1985-1989)
  • Hawai`i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, History, and the Humanities (1993-2001)
  • National Endowment of the Humanities Fellowship in Jurisprudence, Cornell University (1979)
  • National Economic Development Law Center, Berkeley, CA.
    • Evaluator (1979)

Education

  • Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA (J.D. 1976)
  • Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (B.A. 1970)

Past Positions

  • State of Hawai`i
    • Deputy Attorney General (1982-1997)
  • Hawai`i Board of Land and Natural Resources
    • Counsel (1982-1997)
  • Hawai`i Commission on Water Resources Management
    • Counsel (1982-1997)
  • Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i
    • Attorney (1976-1981)
  • Hawai`i House of Representatives' Majority Attorneys Office
    • Attorney (1977)
  • Peace Corps, Sierra Leone
    • Volunteer (1971-1973)

Born

  • Arlington, Virginia
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