The firm's Business Litigation Department is focused on the prompt and cost-effective resolution of business disputes.

The Business Litigation Department handles the entire range of disputes our clients face, from routine commercial matters to the largest and most complex cases in Hawaii. Our clients range from individual sole proprietors to Fortune 500 companies. We staff each case appropriately to provide high-quality service in an efficient manner.

While early resolution is always the goal, we have an established track record of courtroom and arbitration victories where the opposing side refused reasonable settlement.

Our business litigators have won jury verdicts in cases others believed too complicated for a jury to understand, including what at the time was the longest jury case ever tried to a verdict in the Hawaii state courts. Members of the Business Litigation Department are equally comfortable handling jury and bench trials, administrative hearings and arbitrations, and with other methods of alternative dispute resolution. In recognition of their in-depth knowledge of particular lines of business, our business litigators have repeatedly represented clients in disputes involving securities transactions, contested tax liabilities, real estate transactions, development and construction, intellectual property, products liability, accounting and financial auditing, professional responsibility, partnership and joint venture issues, administrative law, insurance coverage and claims and environmental matters, and in non-litigation matters as well.