Joy Yanagida
Principal

Practice Areas: Business Disputes; Divorce; Contracts; Condominium Association Law.

Admitted: 1981, California; 1985, District of Columbia; 1991, Hawaii

Law School: Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, J.D., 1980

College: Stanford University, A.B., with distinction, 1977

Member: Maui County, Hawaii State and American Bar Associations.

Biography: Author: "The Pacific Salmon Treaty," The American Journal of International Law. Adjunct Professor, Washington College of Law, American University, 1990-1991. Attorney-Adviser, U.S. State Department Office of the Legal Adviser, 1980-1986. Staff Attorney, President's Special Review Board ("Tower Commission"), 1987. Task Force on Iran Contra Matters, Office of the White House Counsel, 1987. Formerly Associated with Dickstein, Shapiro and Morin, Washington, D.C., 1987-1991. Of Counsel, Center for International Environmental Law, Washington, D.C., 1990.

Languages: French.

Reported Cases: Onaka v. Onaka (Utah, 2002) (reversing federal bankruptcy discharge); Fujimoto v. Au, 95 Hawai'i 116, 19 P.3d 699 (HI 2001) (establishing joint and several liability of "innocent" general partners to limited partners for criminal conduct of on general partner); State v. Sandoval (1997) (reversing 48 count conviction for sex assault); State v. Vinge, 916 P.2d 1210 (1996) (reversing sentencing on First Amendment grounds); State v. Kekona, 886 P.2d 740 (1994) (exhorting police to tape confessions).

Born: Wailuku, Maui, Hawaii

ISLN: 902589498