Year Joined Organization

• 1982

Areas of Practice

• Federal Criminal Defense
• State Criminal Defense
• Military Criminal Defense
• Personal Injury
• Constitutional Law
• Medical Malpractice

Bar Admissions

• Hawaii, 1981
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1985
• New Jersey, 1982
• U.S. District Court District of Hawaii, 1981
• U.S. District Court District of New Jersey, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1982
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit, 1993

Education

• University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1981
  J.D.
  Law Review: University of Hawaii Law Review, Member, 1980 - 1981
  
  
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1981
  M.A.
  
  
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1977
  B.A.
  
  

Classes/Seminars Taught

• Adjunct Professor -"Hawaii Innocence Project", University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law
• Faculty Member, National Institute of Trial Advocates ("NITA")
• Lecturer - Trial Advocacy Program, Public Defender State of Hawaii
• Faculty Member, National Business Institute Legal Seminars
• Peoples Law School, American Trial Lawyers Association

Honors and Awards

• Listed in: "Best Lawyers in America" 2006; 2007; 2008; 2009; 2010
• Martindale-Hubble Registry of Preeminent Lawyers, 2003 - Present
• Listed in: Hawaii Super Lawyers 2008
• Hawaii's Best Lawyers 2007 -Honolulu Magazine
• Director -Hawaii Bar Association, 2010 - Present
• Chair, Judicial Selection Commission, State of Hawaii, 1994 - 1995
• United States Courts Judicial Conference, 2004 - 2005
• "Who's Who in American Law", 2003 - Present
• "Outstanding Lawyers of America"
• Member, Task Force on Charging Procedures, Twenty-First Legislature 2003
• Member, Act 59 Task Force to Consider Proposals to Revise Hawaii's Community Notification or "Megan's Law", 2003 - 2004
• Member of Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Rules of Penal Procedure and Circuit Court Criminal Rules
• Member of Lt. Governor's Hawaii Drug Control Strategy Task Force, 2004 - Present
• Litigation Committee, ACLU of Hawaii, 2002 - Present
• Legal Television Commentator, KHNL News 8
• Lawyer Select, State Judicial Conference, 1991 - 1994

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Hawaii State Bar Association, 1981 - Present
  Member
  
  
• New Jersey State Bar Association, 1982 - Present
  Member
  
  
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers ("NACDL")
  Life Member
  
  
• Bencher, American Inns of Court IV, Hawaii
  
  
• The Association of Trial Lawyers of America
  Member
  
  
• Hawaii Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
  Member
  
  
• The Association of Plaintiffs Lawyers of Hawaii, 1989 - 1990
  Member
  
  
• American Society of Law and Medicine
  Member
  
  
• The Association of Plaintiffs Lawyers of Hawaii, 1989 - 1990
  Member, Board of Governors
  
  
• International Legal Faternity of Phi Delta Phi - Richardson Inn, 1979 - 1981
  Member, Executive Committee
  
  

Pro Bono Activities

• President of the Board, "Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline", 1991 - 1992
• Delegate, Hawaii Democratic Party State Convention, 1988 - 2008
• Afro-American Lawyers Association (Past President and Founding Member)
• ACLU of Hawaii -Litigation Committee Member
• NAACP Hawaii Chapter (Former Legal Redress Officer)
• Interscholastic League of Honolulu, Coach of the Year, Wrestling, 1990 - 1991

Fraternities/Sororities

• Phi Delta Phi

Birth Information

• October 13, 1953, Beppu, Japan