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Practice areas

• Admiralty and maritime law
• Insurance defense
• Commercial litigation
• Public utilities law
• Electric cooperatives law
• Business law

Admitted

• Hawaii and U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii,1973
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit,1979
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1995

Education

• Harvard University, J.D.

Associations & memberships

• Kauai, Hawaii State and American Bar Associations
• Maritime Law Association of the United States

Military service

• Capt., U.S. Coast Guard Reserve (Retired)

Representative cases

• In Re Kaanapali Water Corp., 5 Haw. App. 71, 731 P.2d 163 (1984);
• Complaint of Damador Bulk Carriers, Inc., 903 F.2d 675 (9th Cir. 1990);
• Exxon Shipping Co. v. Pacific Resources, Inc., 789 F. Supp. 1521 (D.Hawaii 1991), 855 F. Supp. 1195 (D.Hawaii 1993);
• Exxon Co. v. Sofec, Inc., 54 F.3d 570 (9th Cir. 1995);
• Exxon Company, USA v. Sofec, Inc., -U.S.-, 116 S. Ct. 1813, 135 L. Ed. 2d 113 (1996).

The attorneys at Belles Graham LLP serve clients in Lihue, Hawaii and throughout Kauai County.