
Cades Schutte LLP
Jeffrey Portnoy

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Litigation: General Commercial - Hawaii
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Practice Areas
Coronavirus Response, Educational Institutions, Employment Law & Labor Relations, First Amendment, Advertising, Media & Entertainment, Health Care, Insurance Coverage & Defense, Intellectual Property, Litigation, Professional Liability
Career
Jeff is a partner practicing in the area of litigation. He previously served as Chair of Cades Schutte’s Litigation Department and has practiced law as a civil litigator at the firm since 1972.
Jeff has 50 years of extensive litigation and alternative dispute resolution experience in several areas of substantive law, including insurance, employment, mass tort, product liability, media, securities, and medical and legal professional errors and omissions.
Jeff currently serves as Treasurer for the Ninth Circuit Historical Society. He was President of the Hawaii State Bar Association (HSBA) in 2007. He is also a past President of the Hawai‘i Chapter of the Federal Bar Association, and he served two three year terms as a Hawai‘i lawyer representative to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He was recently elected to serve as a HSBA representation to the State Judicial Selection Commission.
He was Chairman of the United States District Court Advisory (Biden) Committee. He also served as a Hawai‘i State Per Diem Judge and as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hawai‘i. He is President of the Hawai‘i ABOTA chapter. Jeff has also served as the Hawai‘i State Representative to the Defense Research Institute as well as the HSBA’s representative to the ABA’s House of Delegates. He also served a five year term on the University of Hawai‘i Board of Regents.
He has been named Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year for Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants (2016), Bet-the-Company Litigation (2013), and Insurance Law (2011). He has been recognized by Best Lawyers in America in several practice areas, including Commercial Litigation, Litigation – First Amendment, Insurance Law, Legal Malpractice Law – Defendants, Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants, Litigation – Labor and Employment, and Bet-the-Company Litigation for over 25 years. Jeff is listed in Who’s Who in America, and has been the recipient of several local and national awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists’ First Amendment Award, and the Exceptional Performance Award from the Defense Research Institute. Among other state and national recognitions, he has been selected several times as one of the leading litigators in Hawai‘i by Chambers & Partners USA and several other publications. In 2016, he was recognized as the top Civil Litigation Lawyer by Hawai‘i Super Lawyers List.
In his spare time, he served as President of Manoa Valley Theatre’s Board of Directors for 25 years and was the color analyst for University of Hawai‘i basketball for almost three decades. Jeff has served as a visiting Professor of Law at the Debrecen School of Law, Debrecen, Hungary, in Tartu, Estonia, and in Warsaw, Poland. He also served on the Board of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the Hawai‘i Chapter of the American Cancer Society.
Publications
“Column: Legislature Should Let Public See Police Misconduct Records,” Honolulu Star Advertiser (June 15, 2020) (Co-Author); “The Most Interesting Man in Honolulu,” Midweek (February 24, 2015) (Featured in Cover Story); “To Attack or Not to Attack,” Communications Lawyer, The Journal of Media, Information, and Communications Law, Vol. 26, No. 3, 23-24 (July 2009) (Author); “Mass Communication Law in Hawaii,” New Forums Press, Inc. (1994) (Co-Author); “Hawai‘i Chapter,” Libel Defense Resource Center 50 State Survey, Media Privacy and Related Law (1982 – present); “Manual on Access to Government – Hawai‘i Chapter,” Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; “The Lum Court and the First Amendment,” Western Newspaper Publishing Co., University of Hawai‘i Law Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, 393-420; Speaker, teacher, and author at numerous programs and seminars on media law, employment law, personal injury law, trial tactics, and commercial litigation.
Personal
J.D. (1972), Duke University School of Law; B.A. (1969), Syracuse University
Awards
Management Labour & Employment
Who's who Legal
2021
Lawyer of the Year, Legal Malpractice Law- Defendants
Best Lawyers
2016
Local Litigation Star
Benchmark Litigation
2013
Lawyer of the Year, Bet-The-Company Litigation
Best Lawyers
2013
Lawyer of the Year, Insurance Law
Best Lawyers
2011
Selected by Governor Neil Abercrombie (2011-2017) to serve on Judicial Selection Commission
2011
Listed
Super Lawyers
2008
USA, Commercial Litigation
Who's Who Legal
2006
Listed
Chambers and Partners
2003
State Leadership Award
Defense Research Institute
1999
First Amendment Award
Society of Professional Journalists
1995
Listed
Best Lawyers
1993
Exceptional Performance Award
Defense Research Institute
1993
Exceptional Performance Award
Defense Research Institute
1991
Elected to Membership
International Association of Defense Counsel
1991
Jeffrey Portnoy
Cades Schutte LLP



1000 Bishop Street
Suite 1200
Honolulu
Hawaii
USA
HI 96813

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