Louisa Medeiros
Founding attorney, wills and trusts
Louisa meets most new families first, and helps them decide what to put on paper and what to leave alone.
Bar, courts and schooling
Bar admissions
Hawaii
1997
Courts
Hawaii state courts
1997
U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii
1998
Education
J.D.
1996
B.A.
1992
Languages
English
Portuguese
Conversational
Memberships
Hawaii State Bar Association
Estate planning and elder law section
Long first meetings, short documents
Louisa opened the firm after years of watching families sit across a desk from a lawyer who talked over their heads. Her first meetings still run long, because she asks about the house, the kids and who in the family doesn’t speak to whom before she asks about the documents.
She drafts most of the firm’s wills and trusts, and she’s known for talking people out of things they don’t need. A couple with a modest home and a good beneficiary form might leave with a will and a checklist, and a promise to call if anything changes.
Meet Louisa in Honolulu or by video
Bring the names you’re weighing for guardian, and she’ll start there.