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Areas of Practice
- Employment Law
- Equal employment opportunity (discrimination, harassment, and retaliation issues), including EEOC and HCRC investigations, mediation, arbitration, and litigation
- Wrongful termination
- Wage and Hour
- Personnel management and training (handbooks, employment contracts, independent contract agreements, severance agreements, job descriptions., development and maintenance of HR systems, and management training)
- Safety and Health (OSHA, workplace violence, substance abuse)
- Proprietary rights (proprietary rights, confidentiality, and non-compete agreements)
- Workplace privacy
- Litigation, arbitration, mediation, administrative hearings
- Personal Injury Defense
- Litigation
- Alternative dispute resolution: CAAP arbitration, mediation
- Products Liability
- Government Contracts
- Admiralty and Maritime Law
Admitted to practice
- Hawai`i
- U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Affiliations
- Hawai`i State Bar Association
- Director (2002-2006, 1999-2000)
- Co-chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee
- Big Brothers Big Sisters
- Workplace Development Council
- Member (July 2005-present)
- Hawai`i Women Lawyers
- Past President (1993); Member (1985-present)
- Hawai`i Women's Legal Foundation
- Past President (2000); Directory (1989-2001)
- Society of Human Resources Management
- Member, Employment Law Group
- Defense Research Institute
- Member, Employment Law and Product Liability Committees
Education
- Lewis and Clark College, Northwestern School of Law (J.D.1984)
- Lewis and Clark College (B.A. 1975)
Publications
- Contributing Author, The Pacific Employer
- Author, "Avoid Pre-employment Interview Pitfalls," Pacific Business News (1998)
- Author, "Labor Rights: Apprenticeships." Women and Employment, Our Rights, Our Lives (1996) Publisher: Hawai`i Women Lawyers.
- Contributing Author, The Price of Paradise, Volume II (1993) Publisher: Mutual Publishing Co.
Languages Spoken Other Than English
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Mei-Fei Kuo invited to speak at the International Environmental Forensics Conference held in Qingdao, China
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Louise Ing was one of the featured panelists for the First Annual Wahine in Hawaii Business forum being held at the Hilton Hawaiian Village on July 23, 2008.
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William Kaneko discusses the state of Hawaii's economy in the July issue of Hawaii Business magazine.
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Trudy Burns Stone has joined AHFI as Of Counsel and will be working with
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Lessees' lawsuit against the City and County of Honolulu for violations of the U.S. Constitution reinstated
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