Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert serves the Hawaii business community with the connections and capabilities of an international practice, holding the highest standards for business law and commercial litigation. We are the sole Hawaii firm that is part of the Meritas network of more than 170 independent law firms in at least 60 countries.
The ethnic and cultural diversity of our founders continues, reflected by our ability to offer client services in Japanese, Korean, French and Dutch.
Our attorneys temper intelligence and determination with wisdom conferred by a healthy sense of humor, a variety of experiences and a worldview that includes devotion to community and friends.
Since our beginning nearly 50 years ago, we have remained first and foremost creative, cost-effective problem solvers.
Our practice groups include Bankruptcy & Creditor’s Rights, Business & Commercial Law, Dispute Resolution, Estate Planning, Immigration & Naturalization, Insurance and Real Estate & Construction.
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Damon Key partner Christine Kubota is featured in a story in the February 2010 Hawaii Business magazine, “The Business of Love.”
Read moreOn Tuesday, January 12, 2010, Damon Key attorney Robert Thomas will be speaking at a teleconference on land use exactions for members of the International Municipal Lawyers Association. He will be the guest of nationally-renown land use law experts Professor Dan Mandelker and attorney Dwight Merriam.
Read moreOn February 25, 2010, from 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. Eastern (12:30 CT, 11:30 a.m. MT, 10:30 PT, and 8:30 HST), Damon Key attorney Mark M. Murakami will be moderating a teleconference sponsored by the ABA Section of State and Local Government Law and the ABA Center for Continuing Legal Education: Beyond Gun Control: McDonald v. City of Chicago and Incorporation of the Bill of Rights.
Read moreTred Eyerly, who researches and publishes one of the nation’s leading blogs on insurance law—Insurance Law Hawaii—has celebrated his blog’s second anniversary.
Read moreDamon Key construction lawyers Kenneth Kupchak, Anna Oshiro, Christi-Anne H. Kudo Chock, and Tred Eyerly teamed together to write the Hawai`i chapter for the recent ABA publication, A State-by-State Guide to Construction and Design Law (2nd Ed.). The book is a valuable resource for practitioners involved in the negotiation or review of construction and design contracts for projects in states other than their own.
The Summer 2009 issue of The Urban Lawyer (the ABA’s Section of State and Local Government Law‘s peer-reviewed law review), which was just published, includes an article by Damon Key attorney Robert Thomas: Recent Developments in Public Use and Pretext in Eminent Domain, 43 Urban Lawyer 563 (2009).
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