Michael Livingston, Member of Davis Levin Livingston | Hawaii Injury Lawyers

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. Mr. Livingston served as the Mountain States Regional Counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union during the late 1970s, before stepping aside from the practice of law to coach the sport of rowing on the intercollegiate and international levels. As a competitor, Mr. Livingston won numerous national championships, and was a member of the 1968 and 1972 (silver medalist) United States Olympic Teams.  Among the athletes he has coached are many national champions and Olympians. His book on high level athletic training, entitled Mental Discipline: The Pursuit of Peak Performance, was published by Human Kinetics Publishers in 1989. Mr. Livingston returned to the practice of law in 1985, and opened a litigation practice on the Big Island in 1986. In late 1986, he joined the Honolulu law firm then known as Davis and Levin. He became a partner of the firm in 1990, and Livingston was added to the firm name in 1996.

Mr. Livingston specializes in litigation, and focuses on the representation of plaintiffs in cases involving medical negligence, major personal injuries, substantial commercial disputes, insurance bad faith, and violations of civil liberties. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America, in two different categories in Honolulu Magazine’s “Hawaii’s Best Lawyers,” in “Hawaii’s Super Lawyers,” and in Madison’s Who’s Who.  Throughout his legal career, Mr. Livingston has been committed to the preservation and protection of civil rights and civil liberties.  A long-standing member of the American Civil Liberties Union Litigation Committee, he has chaired that Committee for many years. Mr. Livingston also teaches pretrial litigation as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law.