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Sherry Broder

Sherry Broder, a lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law, adjunct research fellow at the East-West Center and a longtime Hawaiʻi attorney with expertise in complex civil litigation, will receive the American Bar Association’s 2015 Solo and Small Firm Lifetime Achievement Award. Broder’s work over more than three decades has epitomized the ideals of the legal profession and of solo and small-firm practitioners.

As a lecturer at the law school, Broder teaches public international law, international ocean law and international human rights. She has published extensively in these areas and has lectured at universities, law schools and government venues around the world.

She will receive the award at the GPSolo Awards luncheon in Hawaiʻi on Friday, April 17.

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In one of her outstanding cases, Broder served as class liaison counsel for the 9,500 victims of torture during the time that Ferdinand Marcos was president of the Philippines. She and the rest of the legal team ultimately won a $2 billion verdict, one of the largest personal injury verdicts in U.S. history.

Broder also won a class action lawsuit on behalf of Hawaiʻi mothers and their children exposed to excess levels of the pesticide heptachlor in milk products derived from pineapple debris used as cow feed.

She also has worked on social justice issues for Native Hawaiians throughout her career. She is a longtime counsel for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and served as Deputy Chief Counsel at the 1978 Hawaiʻi Constitutional Convention.

Said School of Law Dean Avi Soifer, “This honor is entirely fitting and richly deserved. Sherry Broder has made and continues to make indelible contributions to our law school, Hawaiʻi and the nation, as well as being a significant actor in advancing worldwide human rights and environmental concerns. We are extremely fortunate to have this phenomenon as an integral part of our law school community.”

Read the William S. Richardson School of Law news release for more on Broder.

—By Beverly Creamer

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