PACIFIC LAWYERS - Key Persons


Agerico T. Paras

Job Titles:
  • Partner
He is involved in the full range of attorney's activities particularly in the fields of corporate, commercial and immigration law. He has advised and assisted numerous foreign and local clients in setting up their business in the Philippines. He acts as corporate secretary and legal counsel to several corporate entities. He is a member of […] More in General , Paras & Manlapaz Lawyers

Allison G. Yee

Job Titles:
  • Associate
  • Senior Associate
Allison G. Yee, a senior associate with the firm, concentrates her practice in business/commercial litigation. Prior to moving back to Hawaii, Ms. Yee was associated with a large California law firm. Ms. Yee is also a California licensed Certified Public Accountant (inactive). Before she began practicing law, Ms. Yee worked in the Los Angeles offices of international accounting firms, concentrating on audit and consulting services. Her consulting experience includes calculating damages for business litigation cases.

Anders G. O. Nervell

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Anders G. O. Nervell practices in the areas of real estate development, transactions and financing, and commercial business transactions.

Bill R. Mann

Job Titles:
  • of Counsel

Bradley R. Pulice

Job Titles:
  • Partner
  • Member of the Real Estate
Mr. Pulice is a member of the Real Estate, Business Formation, Corporate and Condominium Practice Groups. He represents a broad spectrum of clients in connection with real estate development, construction, investment, lending, leasing, and operational matters, as well as complex secured and unsecured financing transactions. Mr. Pulice's practice also includes general corporate and commercial activities, including entity formation, governance, policies and procedures, and reporting and compliance matters. Brad was admitted to the Hawaii Bar in 1989 after graduating from the University of Hawaii with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and receiving his law degree from Golden Gate University in 1988. Brad is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and the American Bar Association (Member: Litigation, Business and Real […]

Carlos D. Perez-Mesa

Job Titles:
  • Partner
Carlos D. Perez-Mesa has been an active trial attorney in New Jersey and Hawaii since 1986. In Hawaii, he has tried 20 jury and bench trials to verdict in state and federal court and participated in over 300 arbitrations and meditations. Mr. Perez-Mesa has wide ranging experience practicing in both federal and state court handling

Cong (Denny) Nie

Denny is a native Chinese and graduated from the Vanderbilt University Law School with a J.D. degree in 2013. His practice areas include real estate transactions, incorporation and related matters,…

Daniel J. Berman

I have been practicing law for over thirty (30) consecutive years in Hawaii, Micronesia, Guam and Florida. My clients come from Guam, mainland USA and international locations for services in and out of Courtrooms throughout Guam and Micronesia. The client's needs always come first. More in Berman Law Firm , General

David Banes

Job Titles:
  • Banes Horey Berman & Miller in 1992 As an Associate
David graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, School of Law in 1986. He then practiced on Wall Street in New York with the litigation department of a large law firm…

Edward R. Bendet

Mr. Bendet was the founder of the law firm Bendet Fidell Sugimura where he practiced for 45 years before joining Clay Iwamura Pulice & Nervell. Mr. Bendet has been named…

Gerald S. Clay

Jerry Clay offers more than 40 years experience in all facets of construction law. He represents contractors, subcontractors, designers, construction managers, sureties, owners and material suppliers. Jerry also represents construction…

Jennifer A. Aquino

Jennifer Aquino practices in the areas of real estate development, transactions and financing, and general business matters.

Joseph E. Horey

Joseph E. Horey is originally from Olean, New York. He lived in Japan from 1988 to 1991, and joined the Saipan office of Pacific Lawyers in 1995. Jed has been…

Maria Luz J. Manlapaz

Maria Luz Manlapaz has been practicing law since 1989. Her diversified law practice covers several aspects of litigation: civil, criminal, business, special proceedings, special civil actions, family disputes, annulment of marriages, separation of property, labor, tax, immigration and special laws. After passing the Philippine Bar, she first worked as law clerk for Justice Florentino P.

Mary Martin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate for the Honolulu Law Firm of Clay Iwamura Pulice & Nervell
Ms. Martin is a senior associate for the Honolulu law firm of Clay Iwamura Pulice & Nervell.

Michael J. Berman

I have been practicing law for over forty (40) consecutive years. I have practiced law in Hawaii, Micronesia and Florida and have extensive business contacts in Guam and Micronesia in both the legal and business communities. More in Banes Horey Berman & Miller , Berman Law Firm , General

Michael J. Sipos

Mr. Sipos has been living in the Federated States of Micronesia practicing law and raising a family for the past 17 years. When he is not practicing law or travelling abroad with his wife and three kids, Mr. Sipos is an avid outdoorsman, water sports enthusiast, fisherman, and aspiring photographer. Mr. Sipos has been living in the Federated States of Micronesia practicing law and raising a family for the past 18 years. Michael started his career in 1990 as a California trial attorney and product liability specialist at a large Los Angeles area law firm. He came to Pohnpei in 1998 on a planned one-year […]

Philip A. Okney

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Marshall Islands Bar Association
Mr. Okney is an original member of the Marshall Islands Bar Association, which he chaired 1988 to 1991 and also served on the Judicial Standing Committee on Professional Conduct for five years. The Marshall Islands Government approved his appointment as Registrar of Corporations from 1986 through 1993 and Chairman of the Board of the Land

Philippine Bar

Job Titles:
  • Professional Associations and Memberships

Richard Miller

Richard is an experienced trial lawyer who understands litigation from both sides of the bench. After five years representing criminal defendants as a public defender in Colorado and the CNMI,…

Richard W. Hamlin

Richard Hamlin provides focused international business and U.S. immigration law expertise to investment groups, policy makers and business leaders throughout the region. Since 2010, Mr. Hamlin's practice has extended beyond the private sector to address the needs of sovereign clients and diplomatic missions in and from the Pacific region. Mr. Hamlin continues to actively serve […]

Scott I. Batterman

Scott I. Batterman has been an active trial attorney and litigator for over 35 years, since his admission to the bar in New York in 1981. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, receiving his law degree summa cum laude from New York Law School.

Steven T. Iwamura

Steven Iwamura has earned a national reputation for expertise in the foreclosure of residential mortgages in Hawaii, based on his 20+ years of practice in this area of law. Mr. Iwamura provides practical solutions to National Banks, National Servicers and Governmental Sponsored Enterprises on issues related to mortgage foreclosures in Hawaii. Mr. Iwamura has assembled […]

Yuriko J. Sugimura

Yuriko ("Jane") was born in Bridgeton, New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable Toshimi Sodetani in Circuit Court, State of Hawaii. She entered…

Zachary K. Kondo

Zachary received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Washington with a concentration in finance. Thereafter he attended the William S. Richardson School of Law where he…