Catherine Cachero is an associate in the firm's Honolulu office and is a member of the Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group.  Ms. Cachero concentrates her practice on commercial litigation and real property disputes.  She also practices in the areas of immigration law and banking and finance.

At the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, Ms. Cachero served as Notes & Comments Editor of the Asian-Pacific Law and Policy Journal.  For two years, she represented the law school in the Hispanic National Bar Association's Annual Uvaldo Herrera National Moot Court Competition, serving as team captain during her second year.  During her last year in law school and as part of the law school's Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic, Ms. Cachero appeared before Immigration Court Judge Dayna Beamer to help win asylum status for a 55-year old Laotian woman who suffered through detention, forced labor and abuse in the re-education camps of the Khmer Rouge regime.

Prior Work Experience

Prior to attending law school, Ms. Cachero worked as a Legal Assistant & Coordinator at Shearman & Sterling in New York, where her work focused on high-profile mergers, acquisitions and complex antitrust litigation.

During college and law school, Ms. Cachero worked as a law clerk and/or fellow in various non-profit organizations and law firms located in Japan, Cambodia, the Philippines, and Hungary, researching and helping resolve various social and legal issues.

Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• Hawaii State Bar Association
• Hawaii Filipino Lawyers Association
• Hispanic National Bar Association
• Filipino Chamber of Commerce of Hawai'i