David R. Harada-Stone at a glance
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- Per Diem Judge
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- Hawaii · State
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David R. Harada-Stone
Per Diem Judge · Hawaii District and District Family Courts, Third Circuit
Biography
Professional career
- Per diem judge, Third Circuit District & Family Courts (since June 2023)
- He has held the position of a Third Circuit District and Family Court per diem judge since June 2023 and Court Annexed Arbitration Program arbitrator since 2002.
- David R. Harada‐Stone is an American lawyer and per diem judge in Hawaiʻi’s Third Circuit (Hawaiʻi Island)
- His practice includes insurance coverage, bad-faith defense, uninsured/underinsured motorist arbitrations, personal injury defense, employment litigation, business disputes, torts, mediation, arbitration, trial and appellate advocacy
Education
- His professional biography reports an LLM with honors from University of Connecticut School of Law Insurance Law Center in 2026.
- In 2025 he completed Mediating the Litigated Case at Pepperdine’s Straus Institute.
- David R. Harada-Stone graduated from Roosevelt High School in Honolulu in 1978, obtained a BA in journalism at University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1986, and a law degree at William S. Richardson School of Law in 1994.
Additional information
- Current per diem judge serving in the District and/or District Family courts in Hawaii's Third Circuit.
- He clerked for federal Judge Samuel P. King, then worked at McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon and Tom Petrus & Miller in Honolulu before joining the Law Offices of Jerry Hiatt on Hawaii Island.
- He was editor-in-chief of the University of Hawaii Law Review.
- He completed basic and divorce/domestic mediation training at West Hawaii Mediation Center, and there he volunteers.
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