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  • Report Details ‘Staggering Pervasiveness’ of Sex Abuse Within Catholic Diocese

    Report Details ‘Staggering Pervasiveness’ of Sex Abuse Within Catholic Diocese

    More than 150 priests, deacons, teachers and seminarians within the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been accused of sexually abusing more than 600 children and young adults over an eight-decade period. An explosive report by the Maryland Attorney General’s...

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    Proud to Support a Scrappy Non-Profit Battling Cancer’s Heavy Toll

    Proud to Support a Scrappy Non-Profit Battling Cancer’s Heavy Toll

    Day and night, individuals battling cancer and their families face a seemingly never ending list of challenges. Medical care provides only so much, even for those with the best health insurance. The extreme physical, emotional and financial toll...

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    Unscrupulous Banks, Lenders are Profiting from Lahaina Fire Disaster

    Unscrupulous Banks, Lenders are Profiting from Lahaina Fire Disaster

    We’re constantly surprised by the new and unexpected ways that Lahaina fire victims are being taken advantage of as they face the daunting task of rebuilding. One of the latest examples is highlighted by Civil Beat reporter John...

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    $4 Billion Global Settlement Reached for Maui Wildfires Victims

    $4 Billion Global Settlement Reached for Maui Wildfires Victims

    Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman attorneys welcome historic settlement, available to answer key questions MAUI, HI — Nearly a year after wildfires destroyed the town of Lahaina, killing more than 100, a global settlement has been reached that would...

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    Health Effects from Red Hill Fuel Spill a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

    Health Effects from Red Hill Fuel Spill a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’

    Service members and residents in and around Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam have reported serious medical complications following a catastrophic jet fuel spill in 2021 that contaminated the area’s drinking water supply. Extent of Toxic Contamination The May 2021...

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    Victoria Chang News Commentary: New Hawai‘i Law Puts Sex Abuse Survivors ‘Front and Center’

    Victoria Chang News Commentary: New Hawai‘i Law Puts Sex Abuse Survivors ‘Front and Center’

    “Thanks to the 2024 legislature, Hawai‘i is taking an important step toward recognizing the unique challenges facing survivors of sex abuse, helping them on the long road to recovery and justice,” Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman’s Victoria Chang writes...

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    Studies and Lawsuits tie Roundup Weedkiller to Cancer and Birth Defects

    Studies and Lawsuits tie Roundup Weedkiller to Cancer and Birth Defects

    Widespread use of the popular herbicide Roundup, which contains the known carcinogen glyphosate, is at the center of a series of lawsuits in Hawaiʻi and across the country. New information is coming to light from studies linking the...

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    From Lahaina’s ashes, a Maui lawyer’s career takes a dramatic turn

    From Lahaina’s ashes, a Maui lawyer’s career takes a dramatic turn

    I really thought I was always going to be a prosecutor — then the fire happened. Getting calls from friends and family members impacted by the fires asking for advice, it occurred to me there were so many...

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