Paul D. Tanaka - Partner

• Environmental
• Environmental Transactions

• 2000, Hawaii (inactive)

  2003, New York

  2007, District of Columbia

  2008, California

• Law Clerk for the Honorable Susan Oki Mollway, United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, 2000-2001

  Trial Attorney, Environmental Defense Section, Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, 2004-2006

• University of Hawai'i School of Law, J.D., 2000 summa cum laude
  

  Member, University of Hawaii Law Review

  Member, University of Hawaii National Environmental Moot Court Team (National Champions in Pace Law School National Environmental Moot Court Competition in 1999)

  George C. Munro Award for Environmental Law, Fall 1998

  John S. Edmunds Award for Civility and Vigorous Advocacy, 1999-2000
• Claremont McKenna College, B.A., Government, 1997

Professional Profile

Paul Tanaka is a partner in the Firm's Environmental Transactional Practice Group. Paul focuses his practice on counseling clients regarding environmental compliance and liability issues, primarily in the context of corporate mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. He has experience on a full range of environmental regulatory compliance and remediation matters, enforcement actions, and civil litigation.

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Memberships & Affiliations

Member, American Bar Association Section of Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law

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Prior Experience

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, New York, NY, 2001-2004

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Courts

United States District Court for the District of Hawaii

United States District Court for the Southern District of New York

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York