Eric S.T. Young is a sole practitioner focusing in the areas of estate planning and trust law. His practice includes drafting wills and trusts and appearing in Probate Court on behalf of trustees, personal representatives, conservators and beneficiaries, in connection with probate, conservatorship and trust administration and litigation. He also serves as a court-appointed Master and Kokua Kanawai.
Mr. Young graduated from Punahou School, Harvard University, and the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaii. Since 2003, Mr. Young has been an adjunct professor at the Law School where he teaches a clinical course on estate planning.
Mr. Young began his estate planning career at Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright and later served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Tax Division of the Department of the Attorney General of the State of Hawaii, where he handled tax litigation and charitable trust oversight matters. He most recently spent 5 years Of Counsel at Carlsmith Ball, LLP, before establishing his own law firm.
In 2006, the Hawaii Supreme Court appointed Mr. Young as a member of the Committee on Uniform Probate Code and Probate Court Practices. In 2003 and 2005, Mr. Young served as the Chair of the Elder Law Section and of the Probate and Estate Planning Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association. He received a Martindale-Hubble "AV Preeminent"; rating from his peers and was selected for inclusion in Hawaii Super Lawyers 2008, in the separate areas of "Estate Planning & Probate;" and "Trust & Estate Litigation."
Mr. Young's legal publications include the Hawaii Conservatorship and Guardianship Forms Manual (2005 ed. & 2010 ed., co-editor-in-chief), the Hawaii Probate Forms Manual (2008 ed., co-author) and the Encyclopedia of Estate Planning (2007 ed., co-author).
In 2007, after more than fifteen years of practice, Mr. Young was elected as a Fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a national organization of estate planning attorneys who have demonstrated superior abilities in the fields of trusts and estates and have made substantial contributions to these areas through lecturing, writing, teaching, and bar-related activities.