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Areas of Practice
David Higgins' practice focuses on real estate litigation, including quiet title, condominium law and disputes between homeowners' associations and their members. Mr. Higgins has also represented vessel-owner plaintiffs in cases involving the wrongful denial of maritime insurance benefits.
After practicing corporate law for a large firm in Boston in the late 1970s, Mr. Higgins left the law for a career in non-profit administration. From 1984 to 2002, he was the CEO of a public charity that provided primary health care services in Micronesia and behavioral heath care services to adolescents in Hawaii. The charity designed and built a 340 ton sailing vessel to support its program work, and Mr. Higgins served as the ship's senior captain and then relief captain until 2002 when he retired and returned to the practice of law.
Admitted to practice
- Hawai`i
- Commonwealth of Massachusetts (inactive)
Affiliations
- Hawai`i State Bar Association
- Marimed Foundation
- Sea Education Association
- Board of Overseers, Woods Hole, MA
- US Olympians Association
Past Positions
- Marimed Foundation
- President and Chief Exectutive Officer (1984-2002)
- Senior Captain, SSV Tole Mour (1989-2000)
- Sea Education Association
- Trustee (2003-2009)
- Chair, Maritime Committee (2006-2009)
- Kaneohe Bay Regional Council
Education
- Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA (J.D., 1976, cum laude), Law Review
- Harvard College, Cambridge, MA (A.B., 1970, cum laude)
Publications
- The Application of the Doctrine of Laches in Public Interest Litigation, 56 B.U. Law Rev. 181 (1976)
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