Jerry M. Hiatt graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1973. He received his J.D. from the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law in 1977 under a grant from the East-West Center. During his final year of law school, he attended Harvard Law School and was selected as an editor of the Harvard Environmental Law Review. Mr. Hiatt clerked for the firm of Baker and McKenzie in Hong Kong in 1975 and then for the firm now known as Carlsmith Ball LLC in 1976. He joined the Carlsmith firm in 1977 as an associate. He became a partner there in 1983 and assisted Mr. Bays in directing the Real Estate and Business Litigation section of that firm, before leaving to help form Bays Deaver Hiatt Kawachika & Lezak in 1986. He founded his own firm in January 2001 and now has a general civil litigation practice with David R. Harada-Stone in Kamuela, Hawaii.
Some of the cases he has personally either tried, arbitrated and/or handled on appeal include: Mathewson v. Aloha Airlines, Inc., 82 Haw. 57, 919 P.2d 969 (1996); Calleon v. Miyagi, 76 Haw. 310, 876 P.2d 1278 (1994); Stratton v. Hawaii Electric Light Company, No. 95-16142 (9th Cir., Dec. 16, 1996); Morishige v. Spencecliff, 720 F.Supp. 829, U.S.D.C. (D. Haw., 8/4/89); Mailhiot v. Grand Wailea Co., 85 Haw. 83, 937 P.2d 924 (1997); Pancakes of Hawaii v. Pomare Properties Corp., 85 Haw. 286, 944 P.2d 83 (App. 1997); Finley v. Home Insurance et al., Supreme Ct. #20830 (1998); Gonsalves v. Nissan, No. 23505, Hawaii Supreme Court; Morita v. County of Hawaii, No. 25304, Hawaii Supreme Court; In Re the Matter of The Marilyn Mueller Goss Family and Marital Trusts, T. No. 03-1-0023, First Circuit Court; In Re The Ferdinand John Henry Schnack and Mary Pearson Schnack Trust, S.P. No. 92-0268; and Jaz, Inc. v. Foley, 85 P.3d 1099 (Hawai`i App. 2004). He has extensive trial and arbitration experience in estate, corporate, partnership, construction, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, real property, banking and labor and employment matters for both management and individuals.
Mr. Hiatt is rated "Av" in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory (a peer rating which denotes very high to preeminent legal ability). He has been included in the publication, Best Lawyers in America, each year from 1994 through the present. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates ("ABOTA") and the National Board of Trial Advocacy ("NBTA"). Mr. Hiatt is also a mediator and an arbitrator for Dispute Prevention & Resolution, Inc. ("DPR") and a mediator for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
Mr. Hiatt's current clients include, Hyatt Hotels, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Jack Gifford, President of Maxim Integrated Products, Continental Pacific, LLC, Kohala Ranch Community Association, Waikoloa Village Community Association, and the Waikoloa Land Company. Clients for whom work has been concluded include Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Four Seasons Hualalai, the County of Hawaii, the State of Hawaii, Pomare, Ltd., and its President James Romig, Norman Fogelsong, Managing Director and General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), and Arthur Levinson, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Genentech, Inc.
Some of the cases he has personally either tried, arbitrated and/or handled on appeal include: Mathewson v. Aloha Airlines, Inc., 82 Haw. 57, 919 P.2d 969 (1996); Calleon v. Miyagi, 76 Haw. 310, 876 P.2d 1278 (1994); Stratton v. Hawaii Electric Light Company, No. 95-16142 (9th Cir., Dec. 16, 1996); Morishige v. Spencecliff, 720 F.Supp. 829, U.S.D.C. (D. Haw., 8/4/89); Mailhiot v. Grand Wailea Co., 85 Haw. 83, 937 P.2d 924 (1997); Pancakes of Hawaii v. Pomare Properties Corp., 85 Haw. 286, 944 P.2d 83 (App. 1997); Finley v. Home Insurance et al., Supreme Ct. #20830 (1998); Gonsalves v. Nissan, No. 23505, Hawaii Supreme Court; Morita v. County of Hawaii, No. 25304, Hawaii Supreme Court; In Re the Matter of The Marilyn Mueller Goss Family and Marital Trusts, T. No. 03-1-0023, First Circuit Court; In Re The Ferdinand John Henry Schnack and Mary Pearson Schnack Trust, S.P. No. 92-0268; and Jaz, Inc. v. Foley, 85 P.3d 1099 (Hawai`i App. 2004). He has extensive trial and arbitration experience in estate, corporate, partnership, construction, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, real property, banking and labor and employment matters for both management and individuals.
Mr. Hiatt is rated "Av" in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory (a peer rating which denotes very high to preeminent legal ability). He has been included in the publication, Best Lawyers in America, each year from 1994 through the present. He is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates ("ABOTA") and the National Board of Trial Advocacy ("NBTA"). Mr. Hiatt is also a mediator and an arbitrator for Dispute Prevention & Resolution, Inc. ("DPR") and a mediator for the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD).
Mr. Hiatt's current clients include, Hyatt Hotels, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Jack Gifford, President of Maxim Integrated Products, Continental Pacific, LLC, Kohala Ranch Community Association, Waikoloa Village Community Association, and the Waikoloa Land Company. Clients for whom work has been concluded include Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Four Seasons Hualalai, the County of Hawaii, the State of Hawaii, Pomare, Ltd., and its President James Romig, Norman Fogelsong, Managing Director and General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), and Arthur Levinson, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Genentech, Inc.
David R. Harada-Stone received his B.A. in journalism from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1986 and his J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 1994. He was selected as the Editor of the University of Hawaii Law Review for 1993-1994. He was admitted to the Hawaii Bar in 1994 and the California Bar in 1998. After graduating from law school, he served as law clerk to Senior United States District Court Judge Samuel P. King. He worked as an associate with the Honolulu law firm of McCorriston Miho Miller Mukai, acting as managing attorney of the firm's Hilo office, and as an associate in the San Francisco office of the national law firm of Morrison & Foerster, LLP before joining the Kamuela office of Bays Deaver Hiatt Lung & Rose in 2000. He joined the Law Offices of Jerry M. Hiatt upon its founding in 2001.
Mr. Harada-Stone is rated "Bv" in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory (a peer rating which denotes high to very high legal ability).
Cases which Mr. Harada-Stone has personally briefed and/or argued include Allstate Ins. Co. v. Veniegas, 2 F.Supp.2d 1303 (D.Haw. 1998); State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Adams, 232 F.3d 896 (9th Cir. 2000); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kim, 121 F.Supp.2d 1301 (D. Haw. 2000); Yu v. Albany Ins. Co., 281 F.3d 803 (9th Cir. 2002); Morita v. County of Hawaii, No. 25304, Hawaii Supreme Court; In Re the Matter of The Marilyn Mueller Goss Family and Marital Trusts, T. No. 03-1-0023, First Circuit Court; Kaneshiro v. Rapoza, No. 26518. Hawaii Supreme Court; Jaz, Inc. v. Foley, 85 P.3d 1099 (Hawai`i App. 2004).
Mr. Harada-Stone's current clients include Hyatt Hotels, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Kohala Ranch Community Association, Waikoloa Village Community Association, and the Waikoloa Land Company.
Mr. Harada-Stone is rated "Bv" in the Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory (a peer rating which denotes high to very high legal ability).
Cases which Mr. Harada-Stone has personally briefed and/or argued include Allstate Ins. Co. v. Veniegas, 2 F.Supp.2d 1303 (D.Haw. 1998); State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. v. Adams, 232 F.3d 896 (9th Cir. 2000); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Kim, 121 F.Supp.2d 1301 (D. Haw. 2000); Yu v. Albany Ins. Co., 281 F.3d 803 (9th Cir. 2002); Morita v. County of Hawaii, No. 25304, Hawaii Supreme Court; In Re the Matter of The Marilyn Mueller Goss Family and Marital Trusts, T. No. 03-1-0023, First Circuit Court; Kaneshiro v. Rapoza, No. 26518. Hawaii Supreme Court; Jaz, Inc. v. Foley, 85 P.3d 1099 (Hawai`i App. 2004).
Mr. Harada-Stone's current clients include Hyatt Hotels, Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii Electric Light Company, Kohala Ranch Community Association, Waikoloa Village Community Association, and the Waikoloa Land Company.
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