As a partner for Rush Moore LLP, Mr. Tani serves clients in a wide range of practice areas, including automobile accidents, premises liability, products liability, construction defects, real property disputes, trust and probate disputes, first and third party bad faith cases, insurance coverage issues through declaratory relief actions, sexual harassment, sexual assault, wrongful termination, and personal injury. Mr. Tani’s vast experience includes numerous jury trials, bench trials, arbitrations, uninsured and underinsured private arbitrations, and mediations. He has argued before the Hawaii Supreme Court and served as an arbitrator in the State of Hawaii Court Annexed Arbitration Program. Following law school, Mr. Tani clerked for the Honorable Robert G. Klein, formerly Associate Justice of the Hawaii Supreme Court. He also served as a Deputy Public Defender for the State of Hawaii for four years. After working as an Associate Attorney at Reinwald O’Connor & Playdon for five years, he joined Rush Moore LLP in 1999 and became a partner in 2002.

Carlos D. Perez-Mesa has been an active trial attorney in New Jersey and Hawaii since 1986. In Hawaii, he has tried over 20 jury and bench trials to verdict in state and federal court and participated in over 300 arbitrations and meditations. Mr. Perez-Mesa has wide ranging experience practicing in both federal and state court handling a broad range of litigation, including products liability, construction law, employment discrimination, personal injury, the Americans with Disabilities Act, environmental law, automobile and slip and fall accidents, Title VII civil rights law and workers compensation law. He also handles private arbitrations and mediations involving all types of civil actions, including auto cases, sexual harassment, age discrimination, wrongful discharge, racial discrimination, UM and UIM auto cases and AOAO disputes. Upon graduation of law school, Mr. Perez-Mesa served as a law clerk to Judge Nicholas in Mandak, Passaic County, New Jersey. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Perez-Mesa focused on litigation concerning personal injury, employment discrimination, products liability and condominium law. He defended AIG™ and Farmers™ Insurance insureds involved in automobile and slip and fall accidents. Mr. Perez-Mesa worked seven years as a trial attorney for AIG™’s Staff Counsel’s office in Honolulu. He also has three successful published Hawaii Supreme Court opinions.