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Goodsill Acknowledges Three “Lawyers of the Year” Firm Ranked Tier 1 by 2013 Edition Best Lawyers®

Nov 1, 2012

(HONOLULU, HAWAI’I — November 01, 2012) — Twenty-two attorneys with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP are among the 2013 Best Lawyers® in America list; three earned the distinction of “Lawyer of the Year.” The firm is ranked Tier 1 for the program’s “Best Law Firms” in America.

Lisa Bail (environmental law) and Raymond K. Okada (litigation – trusts and estates) were named the best of the best in their respective fields. Only a single lawyer in each practice area in a community is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” They are selected by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC).

Bail concentrates her practice in environmental law, land use and commercial litigation. Her experience includes trials, administrative hearings, appellate, real estate and transactional matters in environmental law and commercial litigation. She is conversant with all phases of litigation, from pleading and discovery through injunction, summary judgment, trial, mandamus and appeal. Bail is a frequent speaker at environmental law seminars, is a contributing author of the Hawai‘i Environmental Law Handbook, and is active in many associations. Bail also ranked in Chambers & Partners USA (2011) as a leading individual and is a Super Lawyer (2011).

Okada handles estate planning, estate settlements, will and trust disputes and tax controversies. Okada is listed in Best Lawyers® in the practice area of trusts and estates, in Super Lawyers and has an AV Preeminent® rating by Martindale-Hubbell, (the highest rating available).  Okada is former Hawai’i State Chair of the American College of Trust and Estates Counsel, former President of the Hawai’i Estate Planning Council and is a frequent speaker at the Hawai’i Tax Institute.

Goodsill attorneys listed for the 2013 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® are Gail O. Ayabe, Lisa Bail, Johnathan C. Bolton, Jacqueline Earle, Lani L. Ewart, Peter T. Kashiwa, Russell S. Kato, John R. Lacy, Judy Yuriko Lee, Lisa Woods Munger, Patricia Mathias NaPier, Audrey E.J. Ng, Raymond K. Okada, Miki Okumura, Michael O’Malley, Barbara A. Petrus, Vincent A. Piekarski, Edmund K. Saffery, Randall Steverson,  and Leighton J. H. S. Yuen.

Goodsill firm received a Tier 1 ranking for “Best Law Firms” by Best Lawyers® 2013. (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, SC). A Tier 1 ranking is determined by the firm’s overall evaluation, a combination of client feedback, high regard from other law firms and information submitted by Goodsill.

Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP, one of the oldest and largest law firms in Hawai‘i, was founded in 1878 and today has nearly 70 attorneys.  Representing local, national and international clients, Goodsill lawyers handle a wide range of civil law matters, extending personalized legal services with cutting-edge resources.  For more information about the firm, please visit www.goodsill.com.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 36,000 leading attorneys cast almost 4.4 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”

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