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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™
  
  • Water Law (2008-2009)
• Martindale-Hubbell BV rating (1986-present)
• 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