Michael K. Livingston

Michael Livingston is an honors graduate of Harvard University (1970). He was a member of the founding class at the Antioch School of Law, graduating in 1975. He is a member of the California (1976) and Hawaii (1986) Bars, and is also admitted to practice before the United States Federal Courts, including the Ninth and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeal. Mr. Livingston served as the Mountain States Regional Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union during the late 1970s, before stepping aside from the practice of law to coach the sport of rowing on the intercollegiate and international levels. His book on high level athletic training, entitled Mental Discipline: The Pursuit of Peak Performance, was published by Human Kinetics Publishers in 1989. Mr. Livingston returned to the practice of law in 1985, and opened a litigation practice on the Big Island in 1986. In late 1986, he joined the Honolulu law firm then known as Davis and Levin. He became a partner of the firm in 1990, and Livingston was added to the firm name in 1996.

Mr. Livingston specializes in litigation, and focuses on the representation of plaintiffs in cases involving medical negligence, major personal injuries, substantial commercial disputes, insurance bad faith, and violations of civil liberties. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the Hawaii and California Bar Associations, the Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii, the American Association of Justice, the American Judicature Society, and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America, and in two different categories in Honolulu Magazine’s “Hawaii’s Best Lawyers.” A long-standing member of the American Civil Liberties Union Litigation Committee, Mr. Livingston has chaired that Committee for the past six years. Mr. Livingston also teaches pretrial litigation as an adjunct professor of law at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law.

Contact Information

Michael Livingston
Davis Levin Livingston
400 Davis Levin Livingston Place
851 Fort Street
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813

ph (808) 524-7500 x305
fax (808) 545-7802
mlivingston@davislevin.com

Position

Partner, Davis Levin Livingston
Born Denver, Colorado, September 21, 1948
Languages: Spanish

Bar Admissions

Admitted to bar, 1976
California 1977 U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
1986, Hawaii and U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii
1989, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit

Legal Education

Harvard University
• A.B., cum laude, 1970

Antioch School of Law
• J.D., 1975

• Staff Attorney, Mountain States Regional Office, American Civil Liberties Union, 1976-1977

Articles

“Mental Discipline: The Pursuit of Peak Performance" 1989

Professional Honors and Associations

• Hawaii State and American Bar Associations
• State Bar of California
• Trial Lawyers Association of America
• Consumer Lawyers of Hawaii
• American Judicators Society

Lecture & Teaching

"Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law"