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The Honolulu office, established in 1958, is Carlsmith Ball LLP's largest office and functions as the home office. Many of the firm's "specialists" are based here. Utilizing our inter-office technology systems, the Honolulu attorneys provide in-depth expertise and support throughout the firm. The law firm of Carlsmith Ball LLP is a premier Pacific Region firm with an integrated network of offices throughout Hawaii in Honolulu, Kapolei, Maui, Hilo, Kona, and in Guam, Saipan, Los Angeles, and Washington D.C.. We can provide clients with a full range of legal services in each location. David Howard Hitchcock 1832 - 1899 Founder of the Carlsmith Ball LLP law firm Photo about 1880. Courtesy of The Hawaiian Mission Children's Society Carlsmith Ball LLP Hawaii's Oldest Law Firm Carlsmith Ball LLP, Hawaii's oldest and largest law firm, was founded in Hilo in 1857. Today, with offices in Honolulu and nine other locations in Hilo, Kona, Maui, Kapolei, Guam, Saipan, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Mexico City, this international firm celebrates the approach of its 150th year. Carlsmith Ball LLP has many events to be proud of in addition to its length and quality of service to the businesses and individuals in Hawaii, among them the first woman lawyer and first woman partner in Hawaii (1888). It is the only major law firm in Hawaii to have created a solid foundation first on a neighbor island, maintaining an office in Hilo in the same location continuously for 142 years. Forty years ago, at the beginning of 1959, Hawaii was holding its breath for the expected passage of the long-awaited statehood bill. Voters had accepted its inevitability, not unanimously, and politicians were still making deals in Washington. Everyone knew statehood was coming but no one knew when. In the small city of Hilo, which shared the anticipation, a very small law firm had made itself a presence. Though not yet well known in Honolulu, it was already 102 years old. The ten lawyers and small staff, too busy with the future to consider the firm's long history, were playing with the big boys, and frequently besting them, at least on their own ground. Most Honolulu lawyers, if they were even aware of Carlsmith Carlsmith Wichman and Case, dismissed them as country boys, small stuff. There was a modicum of respect for senior partner C. Wendell Carlsmith, known to be a shrewd negotiator, who had a way of popping up in Honolulu and even in Washington, D.C., handling legal affairs for the many Big Island sugar plantations. At home his brother, Merrill L. Carlsmith, was an effective litigator. The rest of the firm, especially new partners James H. Case, and Charles R. Wichman, though island-born and educated at Harvard and Stanford, were younger and less experienced. The firm, without yet recognizing the opportunity, was poised to take full advantage of the new political and economic changes that would come with statehood status. In 1857, missionary son David H. Hitchcock had made his way from his Moloka'i birthplace to Hilo to start his career in law. Painfully slow at first, his practice increased in the friendly small town atmosphere. In 1888 he was joined by his remarkable daughter, Almeda Eliza Hitchcock, a graduate of the "Ann Arbor Law School" (University of Michigan), and the first woman lawyer in Hawaii. She also became the first woman partner in the Kingdom of Hawaii. Ten years later, she was dead and he was dying, though their law practice remained strong. Hitchcock searched for a new partner and settled on Carl W. Carlsmith, who had only recently arrived in the Islands. Carl and his wife Nelle arrived in Hilo simultaneously with another dramatic change in political status, the annexation of Hawaii by the United States. The partnership of Hitchcock and Smith - the name was changed to Carlsmith in 1911 - lasted less than two years. When David Hitchcock died, the practice was Carlsmith's to continue. Where Hitchcock had been a respected "village" lawyer in the old-fashioned relaxed neighborly sense, Carlsmith was a newcomer both to Hilo and to Hawaii. As a new arrival, from Vermont and San Jose, he had to work to earn his acceptance. Not accepted by the larger businesses, he took on the cause of the underdog, creating the firm's early 20th century philosophy of representing emerging clients, clients who were becoming influential as opposed to those already established and secure in the business community. His successful early cases on behalf of non-establishment clients earned him grudging respect from sugar plantation employers who found themselves on the other side and brought him to the attention of their attorneys in larger Honolulu law firms. The Honolulu office, established in 1958, is Carlsmith Ball LLP's largest office and functions as the home office. Many of the firm's "specialists" ar Carlsmith Ball LLP