Mark Valencia

Practice Areas

Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Torts and Personal Injury Litigation; Employment Law and Litigation; Trade Secret Litigation; Appellate Law.

Career

Bar Admission: State of Hawaii, United States District Court, District of Hawaii.

Professional Memberships

Hawaii State Bar Association.

Personal

Articles Editor, Southern Methodist University Law Review

Enjoy reading, writing, politics, health and fitness, and swaying in hammock at the beach

Amateur bodybuilder

Participant, Hawai`i State Powerlifting Championships (1998) (500 pound deadlift)

Annual participant, The Great Aloha Run

Active participant in running and hiking

Completed numerous half marathons, 25k, 30k, and full marathons.

Publications

Anna M. Elento-Sneed, Michael G. Kozak, John S. Mackey, and Mark G. Valencia, Advanced Employment Law (National Business Institute ed. 2018).

Ronald Y.K. Leong, John L. Knorek, Jordan M. Odo, and Mark G. Valencia, Employment Law: What You Need to Know (National Business Institute ed. 2017).

Wesley M. Fujimoto, John L. Knorek, David F. Simons, Mark G. Valencia, and Carolyn K. Wong, Employment Law: 2016 Comprehensive Guide (National Business Institute ed. 2016).

April Luria, Esq., Mark G. Valencia, Esq., and John D. Zalewski, Esq., Keys to Successful Pre-Trial Preparation (National Business Institute ed. 2006).

Janet Allen, Cynthia D. Quinn & Mark G. Valencia, Law in Motion: A Hawaii Paralegal’s Guide to Effective Motion Practice (Institute for Paralegal Education ed. 2003).

Alan Van Etten & Mark G. Valencia, The Insurance Contract and Extra Contractual Liability in Insurance Coverage Law in Hawaii (National Business Institute ed. 2001).

James C. McWhinnie, Alan Van Etten, Shannon M.I. Lau, and Mark G. Valencia, Insurance Law: Third Party Coverage in Hawaii (National Business Institute ed. 2000).

Mark G. Valencia, Examining the Role of E-mail in Litigation in Preventing e-Commerce Legal Problems (Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert 2000).

Mark G. Valencia, Take Care of Me When I am Dead: An Examination of American Church-State Development and the Future of American Religious Liberty, 49 SMU L. Rev. 1579 (1996).

Work Highlights

•Seasoned and successful litigator representing individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies in complex civil litigation. Provide ongoing advice on employment and corporate law matters to large and small businesses.

•Successfully handled and argued cases in federal and state courts on Oahu, the Big Island, Maui, and Kauai, including defending and prosecuting multiple successful appeals before the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, Hawaii Supreme Court, and Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

•Successfully defended cases in multiple administrative agencies, including the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Department of Labor, Hawaii Occupational Health & Safety Division, and Honolulu Board of Realtors.

•Represented plaintiff student-athlete in promissory estoppel case against a university based on the improper withdrawal of an oral athletic scholarship offer (believed to be the first case of its kind in the country), resulting in financial settlement for plaintiff.

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Experience

Reported Cases:

WHIC LLC v. NextGen Labs., Inc., 341 F. Supp.3d 1147 (D. Haw. 2018)

Association of Apartment Owners of Royal Aloha v. Certified Management, Inc., 2016 WL 7163649 (Haw. December 8, 2016)

Weisenberg v. University of Hawaii, 138 Hawai`i 210, 378 P.3d 926 (2016)

Hawaiian Ass’n of Seventh-day Adventists v. Wong, 130 Hawai`i 36, 305 P.3d 452 (2013)

Valvanis v. Milgroom, 529 F. Supp.2d 1206 (D. Haw. 2007)

Valvanis v. Milgroom, 529 F. Supp.2d 1190 (D. Haw. 2007)

Mikelson v. United Services Automobile Ass’n, 107 Hawai`i 192, 111 P.3d 601 (2005)

OWBR LLC v. Clear Channel Communications, Inc., 266 F. Supp.2d 1214 (D. Haw. 2003)

Education