Porter McGuire Kiakona, LLP is pleased to announce that Partner Kapono Kiakona was elected president of the Community Associations Institute (CAI) Hawaii Chapter for the 2020 year.

CAI is an international membership organization dedicated to building better communities. CAI has 64 chapters worldwide and provides information, education and resources to the homeowner volunteers who govern communities and the professionals who support them. CAI members include association board members and other homeowner leaders, community managers, association management firms and other professionals who provide products and services to associations.

The Honolulu law firm of Porter McGuire Kiakona & Chow, LLP (PMKC) is pleased to announce that Kaitlyn Mark has joined the firm as an associate attorney.

Mark earned her J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and a bachelor’s degree in Law, Societies and Justice from the University of Washington.

She will join the firm’s growing Family Law practice, which serves clients on Oahu and the neighbor islands. Kaitlyn is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association.

Partner R. Laree McGuire was a featured panelist at the November 14th, 2019  Hawaii Chapter of Community Associations Institute educational seminar.  McGuire discussed issues related to the collection of delinquent owner accounts, including the legal effect of the passage of Senate Bill 551 now known as Act 282 concerning the right of condominium associations to conduct nonjudicial foreclosures.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PMKC Partner Kapono Kiakona was joined by Krista L. Stadler on ThinkTech Hawaii’s Condo Insider on November 14, 2019. The panel discussion was in regards to “Boards behaving badly; the good the bad and the ugly” of board behavior.  Kiakona provided guidelines for appropriate board member behavior and discussed the consequences of illegal practices.