Michi Momose

Michi is a partner in the Litigation Department of Cades Schutte. She works on a wide variety of complex commercial and real estate litigation matters.

Michi’s practice broadly encompasses commercial, business, and real estate litigation, and includes the representation of financial institutions and schools in a variety of matters. She has a wide-range of experience in all aspects of litigation, including motions practice, discovery, bench and jury trial, and appeals. She previously worked on a trial team that secured a complete defense verdict in a four-week jury trial in federal district court. She has represented clients on issues including products liability and toxic tort litigation.

Michi is a board member of Hawaii Women’s Legal Foundation, a charitable organization dedicated to programs that improve the lives of women and children. Michi also served on the board of Hawai‘i Women Lawyers, a non-profit organization committed to improving the lives and careers of women in the legal profession and enhancing the status of women and promoting equal opportunities for all people, from 2017 to 2024. She previously served as an O‘ahu director on the board of the Hawai‘i State Bar Association’s Young Lawyer’s Division.

Michi was selected to be a fellow in the Hawai‘i State Bar Association’s 2017 Leadership Institute. She has also trained in trial practice through the U.S. District Court of Hawai‘i’s Federal Trial Academy.

Prior to joining Cades Schutte, Michi served as a law clerk to Associate Justice Richard W. Pollack of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court.  Michi received her law degree, summa cum laude, from the William S. Richardson School of Law. As a law student, she was the Outside Articles Editor on the Law Review and a member of the Philip C. Jessup International Law moot court team, which advanced to the international rounds. She also served as a judicial extern to Associate Justice Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. of the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. During law school she received the CALI Excellence for the Future Awards in Civil Procedure I, Evidence, Federal Courts, Legal Practice II, Race, Culture & Law, and Health Law, as well as the Michael P. Porter Dean’s Scholastic Award. Prior to law school, Michi obtained her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.