JODI S. YAMAMOTO

Of Counsel

Areas of Practice:

• Corporate and Business
• Water Rights
• Energy
  
• Public Utilities
• Historic Preservation
• Burial Caves
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• Commercial Litigation
  

Bar Admissions:

• State of Hawaii
• U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii
• Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals

Education:

• Brown University, A.B. in Public Policy and Sociology, with Honors in Sociology, 1993
• Boston University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1996
  • Paul J. Liacos Scholar
  • Edward F. Hennessey Scholar
    

• Hawaii State Bar Association (2001 through 2005 Co-Chair of the Diversity, Equality and the Law Committee; Committee Member from 1999 through 2000, 2006)
  

Pro Bono/Community Service:

• Brown Alumni Schools Committees, Area Chair (2005 - 2007), Area Co-Chair (2001 - 2004, 2008)
• Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Secretary, Treasurer, and Chair of Finance Audit Committee (2008 - Present) 
• Academy Guild, Board Member (2009 - Present) and Vice President of Fundraising (2010)

• Cades Schutte LLP, commercial litigation associate
• Bishop Museum, Vice President and General Counsel