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Date Posted: 00:56:18 04/15/09 Wed
Author: Bobby N. Harmon
Subject:

CV05-00030 - US DEPT OF JUSTICE vs. HARMON - EXHIBIT: "HONOLULU LAW FIRM FILES CHAPTER 11..."

CV05-00030 - U.S. Dept of Justice, David C. Farmer, Trustee vs. Bobby N. Harmon-Exhibit: "Honolulu law firm files Chapter 11 bankruptcy" & Witnesses: Paul A. Lynch, David C. Farmer, Judge Alan Kay, Steven Guttman, Judge Robert Faris, Constance Lau, Walter Dods, Rocco Sansone, Colbert Matsumoto, etc.�

From: bobby_n_harmon@yahoo.com

Sent: Wed 4/15/09 2:06 AM

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Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - March 2, 2009
http://pacific/stories/2009/03/02/story4.html

Friday, February 27, 2009

HONOLULU LAW FIRM FILES CHAPTER 11 BANKRUPTCY

Pacific Business News (Honolulu) - by Linda Chiem

Honolulu law firm Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and saw all but one of its attorneys leave the firm this week.

The general practice and civil litigation firm, which employed seven attorneys, filed for bankruptcy reorganization on Feb. 17.

Since then, partners Wesley Ichida, William F. Thompson III and Maile Hirota have left the firm. Two of them have started new firms, according to records with the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.

The bankruptcy filing, signed by Paul A. Lynch as president of the firm, lists Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota�s assets at more than $500,000 and debts at more than $300,000.

The case is scheduled for a March 16 hearing before U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert J. Faris. Within days of the bankruptcy filing, the trustee overseeing the case filed a motion to have it dismissed because the petition was missing a key document, the corporate resolution that is supposed to show that the firm�s entire board of directors � the four partners � authorized the filing.

Attorney Steven Guttman of the Honolulu law firm Kessner Umebayashi Bain & Matsunaga said the board didn�t sign off on the filing. He was hired by Ichida and Horita to represent them in the bankruptcy case.

�Mr. Ichida, Mr. Thompson and Ms. Hirota do not support the petition filed by Mr. Lynch,� Guttman told PBN. He said the former partners won�t oppose the motion to dismiss the case.

According to the bankruptcy filing, the law firm�s biggest creditor is ReOrient8 LLC, owed $82,000. Until Feb. 13, Wesley Ichida was listed as the agent for the company, according to state DCCA records, which do not include a description of ReOrient8�s business purpose.

The filing also lists $15,000 owed to Douglas Emmett for the lease on the law firm�s 14th floor offices at 1132 Bishop St. in downtown Honolulu, about $13,500 owed to Marsh & McLennan Cos. for insurance and thousands of dollars owed to companies such as Hawaiian Telcom, Martindale-Hubbell and LexisNexis.

Lynch could not be reached for comment.

Ichida, Thompson and Hirota declined to discuss the bankruptcy filing and their decisions to leave the firm, which was incorporated in 1999.

State DCCA records show that Ichida and Hirota each have established and registered new limited liability law companies in recent weeks. Hirota established Hirota & Associates on Feb. 9.

Ichida joined with another of the firm�s attorneys, Ann Kemp, and established Ichida, Kemp on Feb. 12.

Hirota said another former Lynch attorney, Tony Tran, joined her firm.

Former Lynch attorney Courtney Naso left to work for another law firm.

J. Gregory Turnbull, who was of counsel to the Lynch firm, also has left.

The Hawaii Rules for Professional Conduct prohibit law firms from continuing to use the name of a partner who has left the firm and is actively practicing law elsewhere. It could not be immediately determined how the former Lynch Ichida Thompson & Hirota firm will be renamed.

The firm specialized in civil litigation, bankruptcy, real estate, construction, securities, insurance defense, immigration and family law, and adoptions, according to its Web site.

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April 15, 2009

Dear President Obama, Attorney General Holder, Mr. Farmer; Mr. Guttman; Ms. Muranaka; Judge Ezra, Judge Chang, Judge Kurren, and All Concerned:

Due to the discovery of relevant facts in this case, I am adding the subject Exhibit which relates to your lawsuit that, as I have stated previously, violates my Constitutional Rights of Free Speech and a Fair Trial by a jury of my peers, and Federal and Hawaii Anti-SLAPP statutes.

In view of all the facts that I have presented in this and hundreds of other Exhibits and witness descriptions, it is beyond comprehension that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales; Assistant U.S. Trustees Curtis Ching, Gayle Lau and Carol Muranaka; Judges Eden Hifo (fka Bambi Weil), Kevin Chang, David Ezra, Barry Kurren, Lloyd King and Robert Faris, and Trustees Mary Lou Woo, James Nicholson and David C. Farmer; the American Arbitration Association arbitrator Judith Neustadter Fuqua, and attorney Steven Guttman can still claim that they were non-conflicted, impartial, and unbiased in this case.

In spite of all this factual evidence, however, I am again asking that we attempt to reach a global settlement of this matter through confidential negotiation or mediation rather than continuing these costly and seemingly-endless court proceedings.

If you still are NOT willing to attempt to negotiate or mediate a settlement, then I ask that you perform your mandated review of this new Exhibit in accordance with Judge Ezra's Order, and advise me if you find it contains any so-called "protected subject matter", and whether or not you intend to OBJECT to my filing a Motion to reopen this case.

Mr. Farmer, I respectfully request your immediate reply. If I do not receive a response from you or your insurance carrier within 15 days, I will assume that you have found no "protected subject matter" in these updated pages, and that you will NOT file any objections to my Motion.

Very truly yours,

Bobby N. Harmon, CPCU, ARM

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