DAVIS LEVIN LIVINGSTON - Key Persons
Aimee Lum has enjoyed a legal career spanning 17 years. Born and raised in Hawaii, she is an alumni of Punahou School, received her B.A., with distinction, from the University of Michigan in 2000, and obtained her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2005. During law school, Ms. Lum served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review and externed for the Honorable Richard R. Clifton of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable David Alan Ezra and the Honorable Barry M. Kurren of the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Ms. Lum began her legal career as an associate at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel then spent 16 years at the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii, where she was a law clerk for the Honorable David Alan Ezra and the Honorable Leslie E. Kobayashi, and a career law clerk for the Honorable Jill A. Otake and the Honorable Kevin S.C. Chang, working on a wide range of high-profile civil and criminal cases.
Passionate about non-profit causes, Ms. Lum has served on a number of boards since 2013. She is currently on the boards of directors for the Hawaii Women's Legal Foundation, American Cancer Society Hawaii Guam, Honolulu Zoo Society, and Drill Team Hawaii Booster Club, presently and previously holding a variety of leadership roles. She is also a member of Punahou School's Parent Advancement Council.
At Davis Levin Livingston, Ms. Lum focuses on corporate negligence, medical malpractice, sexual abuse, and civil rights violations.
PRACTICE AREAS
Child Sex Abuse
Job Titles:
- Attorney
- Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Legal Aid Society of Hawai
From 2008-2020, Blaine Rogers litigated complex commercial and real estate disputes, as well as class, bad faith, and civil rights actions, as an attorney and partner with Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing, now known as Dentons US LLP. Among his victories, he helped stop the State of Hawai`i from making potentially deadly cuts to health care benefits available to citizens of Compact of Free Association countries and secured judgment against the State forcing it to comply with federal timeliness rules for distribution of SNAP, or food stamp, benefits.
Mr. Rogers has argued cases before Hawai`i State and Federal courts, as well as the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. From 2016-2020, he was named one of Honolulu's Best Lawyers and, from 2018-2022, a Hawai`i Super Lawyer. He has maintained a Preeminent Rating (the highest available) for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability from Martindale-Hubbell AV from 2014 to present. From 2016-2018, Mr. Rogers served as Hawai`i lawyer delegate to the United States Circuit Court for the Ninth Circuit and, during this same period, served on his prior firm's executive management committee. He was named Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year by the Hawai`i State Bar Association in 2012.
Prior to entering private practice, Mr. Rogers served as a law clerk to the Honorable David Alan Ezra, Senior District Judge, United States District Court for the District of Hawai`i and was the first Marine Legal Fellow for the State of Hawai`i. He obtained his juris doctorate, magna cum laude, from the William S. Richardson School of Law with a certificate in Environmental Law and his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Mr. Rogers currently serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Legal Aid Society of Hawai`i and on the board of the Hawai`i chapter of the Federal Bar Association. He was chair of the Natural Resources Section of the Hawai`i State Bar Association from 2009-2010.
At Davis Levin Livingston, Mr. Rogers will utilize his extensive litigation skills to better the lives of people harmed by corporate, municipal, and individual negligence in personal injury, medical malpractice, and bad faith cases.
PRACTICE AREAS
Insurance Bad Faith
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Chase received his B.S. in Conservation Resource Studies from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012, after spending his Junior year at the University of Ghana, Legon. Following his graduation from college, Chase spent several years in the Bay Area working in the field of energy and water conservation, before returning to Hawai‘i to pursue a law degree at the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai‘i.
In 2019, he graduated magna cum laude from the Richardson School of Law, where he received certificates in Environmental Law and Native Hawaiian Rights. While in law school, Chase was the Student Bar Association Senate President, a board member for the American Constitution Society, a founding member of the National Lawyers Guild student chapter of Hawai‘i, and an active participant in the Environmental Law Program's Energy Justice Initiative.
Chase served as a judicial extern for the Honorable Judge Todd W. Eddins in the First Circuit Court of the State of Hawai‘i (now Associate Justice Eddins), and as a legal and policy extern for the City and County of Honolulu Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resilience (CCSR), and the Blue Planet Foundation. Following his graduation from the Richardson School of law, Chase served as law clerk for the Honorable Associate Justice Michael D. Wilson at the Hawai‘i Supreme Court. Chase is a musician, mountaineer, and waterman who is passionate about social and environmental justice and is dedicated to helping his local and global community mitigate and adapt to the ongoing climate crisis. In pursuit of this mission, Chase has filed numerous amicus briefs on behalf of legal scholars in support of various climate change tort cases against multinational oil companies.
Chase is committed to utilizing his experience and skills to help the firm's clients seek justice and compensation for harms they have suffered as a result of corporate negligence, medical malpractice, sexual abuse, or civil rights violations. Chase also represented the non-profit Life of the Land in a Hawai‘i Supreme Court appeal related to the Hu Honua Bio Energy Facility on the Big Island, successfully arguing before the Supreme Court that the climate impacts and high cost of the facility made approval of its contract with Hawaiian Electric Company contrary to the public interest.
PRACTICE AREAS
Car Accidents
Born and raised in Honolulu, Hawai‘i, Hannah is a graduate of Punahou School, Vassar College, and Stanford Law School.
At Stanford, Hannah led the workers' rights pro bono group, representing low-income workers against their bosses. She was also a member of the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic; her team won Mount Lemmon Fire Dist. v. Guido, 139 S. Ct. 22 (2018), which established that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act covers state employers, regardless of size.
Hannah started her legal career at a California-based civil rights law firm focusing on gender discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, and sexual harassment. She then served as a law clerk for Judge Jesus G. Bernal of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and Judge Mark J. Bennett of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Clerking on both a trial court and an appellate court has given her valuable insight into federal court practice at all stages of a case, as well as an interest in the diversity of legal practice.
Hannah's practice focuses on catastrophic personal injury, medical malpractice, sexual abuse, and civil rights. In her first year at Davis Levin Livingston, she helped try a wrongful death case on behalf of a man who died by suicide at Halawa Correctional Facility, as well as a medical malpractice case on behalf of a child injured by negligence at Tripler Hospital. Both cases resulted in record victories.
Hannah is passionate about using the law as a tool for social justice, as well as protecting the people, land, and water that make Hawai‘i special. Outside of the law, she loves rock climbing, farmers' markets, and LGBTQ history.
Job Titles:
- Intake Coordinator
- Client Intake Coordinator
- Heather Salenger Intake Coordinator
Heather Salenger is the Client Intake Coordinator with 19 years of industry experience. Heather joined Davis Levin Livingston in 2009 after relocating from California where she provided direct support to the Deans' Office at the University of San Francisco School of Law.
Heather has compassion and empathy for people seeking answers, and is committed to ensuring a smooth and efficient intake process.
In addition, Heather was a production assistant to several premier graphic design firms, and enjoys managing the firm's stationery and printers.
Heather was born in Venezuela, raised in Connecticut, and is a graduate of University of Colorado Boulder.
Ms. Fisher graduated from the General Hospital School of Nursing in St. Johns, Newfoundland Canada in 1988. She received her Master's Degree in Nursing from Hawaii Pacific University in 2008, graduating with distinction as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, and a Certified Nurse Educator. Ms. Fisher has over 30 years of clinical experience and joined the firm in 2011. Her specialty areas include critical care, obstetrics, women and children's health, medical surgical nursing, interventional nephrology and oncology. Ms. Fisher is a member of the American Nurses Association, The American Association of Critical Care Nurses, The American Association of Legal Nurse Consultants, The Oncology Nursing Society, and the Honors Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International.
Ms. Sheehan has been litigating personal injury and medical malpractice cases at Davis Levin Livingston for approximately 15 years. Some of her recent successes include:
• a 2020 settlement of $1.84 Million with the County of Kauai for employment retaliation committed against Kauai Police Assistant Chief Mark Begley
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer
- Lynne Agbalog Chief Operating Officer
As Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Agbalog will oversee the day-to-day operations of the organization, focusing on optimizing efficiency, implementing strategic initiatives, and enhancing overall business performance. Her commitment to excellence, collaborative approach, and passion for driving positive change align perfectly with the values that define Davis Levin Livingston.
Mark S. Davis, founding partner of Davis Levin Livingston, has been representing Plaintiffs in Hawai'i, including all the Islands, for fifty years. Davis Levin Livingston is one of the oldest and most successful Plaintiffs firms in Hawai'i with a long history of unmatched verdicts and results.
Mr. Davis has been recognized as one of the best trial lawyers in the country. He is the only Hawai'i lawyer admitted to The Inner Circle of Advocates, a group of the 100 best trial lawyers in the country. His firm, in recent days, obtained the highest Federal Tort Claims judgment in Hawai'i history, the highest settlement of a state tort liability case in Hawai'i, history, the highest individual damages award in a child abuse case in Hawai'i history. He was a lead attorney in the Marco Polo fire case and has had award winning verdicts on all the neighbor islands. Admitted to practice in Hawaii in 1974, Mark S. Davis has spent over four decades fighting for his clients' rights in and out of the courtroom. He has gained recognition not only for the results he has been able to achieve but for his professionalism, integrity, and ethics in the complex field of birth injury law.
Mr. Davis finds great satisfaction in representing the injured, voiceless, and wronged. In fighting for the defenseless, he works not only to improve their lives but to improve conditions for future generations.
PRACTICE AREAS
Class Actions
Matt Winter has been practicing law for over 20 years and has dedicated his legal career to helping others. At Davis Levin Livingston, his practice focuses on medical malpractice, birth injury, personal injury, insurance bad faith, and civil rights matters. When he takes on a case, he commits fully, applying his considerable knowledge and experience to secure the best possible outcome for his clients.
Mr. Winter graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1994 and attended California Western School of Law. He graduated from law school in 1997 and began his legal career at Federal Defenders of San Diego. There, he specialized in complex litigation and trial, conducting over thirty-five jury trials in Federal District Court and arguing numerous cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In 2005, he and his family moved to Hawaii and he joined the Federal Public Defender Office in Honolulu. There, he continued his trial practice in Federal District Court until joining Davis Levin Livingston in 2011. Mr. Winter's career at Davis Levin Livingston has been extremely successful due to his complete commitment to each case and client. He is also a strong advocate for civil rights and handles cases on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii. In 2015, he was honored by Governor David Y. Ige and the Hawaii Supreme Court with an award for his outstanding pro bono service to the people of Hawaii.
Mr. Winter is admitted to practice law in the states of California and Hawaii, the Federal District Court of Hawaii, the Federal District Court for the Southern District of California, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. In 2007 and 2018, Mr. Winter was appointed to serve three-year terms as a Lawyer Delegate to the Hawaii District Court Judicial Conference. He is a current member of the ACLU of Hawaii's Litigation Committee and a past board member of the Hawaii Federal Bar Association. During his career, Mr. Winter has taught trial skills to numerous attorneys and has served on the faculty for the Hawaii State Bar Association's Trial Skills Academy.
PRACTICE AREAS
Class Actions
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.