Thursday, January 20, 2011

Rotarian of the Week: Mei Nakamoto

MEI NAKAMOTO has been practicing law for over 25 years. She worked in San Francisco for five years as an attorney with business litigation and insurance defense law firms, and then returned to Hawaii in 1989. She continued her work in the area of business litigation with the Hawaii law firm of Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing until 1998, when she became a staff attorney at Domestic Violence Clearinghouse & Legal Hotline (now Domestic Violence Action Center) and began her career as a family law practitioner. In 2001, Ms. Nakamoto started her private practice and has continued working with clients who have child custody, alimony, domestic violence and property division issues in divorce and other family law-related cases.

A graduate of Farrington High School (1975), University of Hawaii at Manoa (B.Ed. with distinction and B.S. 1980 with distinction) and Northwestern University School of Law (Chicago) (J.D. 1984), Ms. Nakamoto is a member of the Hawaii and California bar associations (inactive in California), Hawaii Women Lawyers, and the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunrise (President 2005-06)). Married with two teenaged daughters, Ms. Nakamoto is a certified USA Swimming official and a volunteer at Hawaiian Swimming age-group meets, a volunteer with the Special Olympics aquatics competitions, and a volunteer with the First Circuit Court’s Kids First Program and as an appointed master in the Volunteer Settlement Master Program.

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