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Of Counsel / Maui

Stephanie M. Chen

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808.242.4535
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schen@carlsmith.com

Stephanie Chen is an Of Counsel in the firm's Maui Office. Her legal experience includes  contracts, business and corporate work, real property, and administrative law matters. Most  recently, Stephanie was a Deputy Corporation Counsel in Maui in the Counseling and Drafting  Division. In that role, she advised various county entities, including, among others, the  Department of Planning, Department of Agriculture, Lanai and Molokai planning commissions,  Conservation Planning Committee, and the Real Property Tax Board of Review.

Stephanie received her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School, and her B.A., cum laude, in French Studies from the University of Washington.



Affiliations

  • ​Hawaii State Bar Association

Publications

  • ​Arnold L. Lum & Stephanie M. Chen, Judicial Methods for Securing Land Title and Doctrine of Adverse Possession, in Native Hawaiian Law, A Treatise (Melody Kapilialoha MacKenzie with Susan K. Serrano & D. Kapuaʻala Sproat eds., 2015)
  • Stephanie M. Chen with Kainui M. Smith, Mari l. Tsukayama, & Lisa H. Higa, E ʻOnipaʻa I Ke Kulāiwi: A Primer For Quiet Title & Partition Law in Hawaiʻi (Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law Apr. 2013)
  • Stephanie M. Chen, Where Blood Runs With the Land: Partition Actions and the Loss of Native Hawaiian Ancestral Land (Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law Mar. 2013)