Cades Schutte LLP

We are one firm, with one overall mission.

We esteem teamwork over stardom and firm accomplishments over individual accolades. We endorse a collegial environment where everyone helps to deliver the best for our clients. There is an important symbiotic relationship between individual success and firm success.

With a century of dedicated legal service, Cades Schutte attorneys are some of the most sought after in the Pacific region for their dedication, tenacity and innovative perspective on the law.

We are a full-service law firm with over 80 attorneys, providing superior service in over 40 practice and industry areas from our main office in Honolulu and offices in Kona, Waimea, Kahului, and Līhuʻe. Since the founding of our firm in 1922, Cades Schutte attorneys have been called on to serve as counsel in some of the most notable cases and transactions in the State of Hawai‘i.

We offer a wide range of corporate and personal legal services with an emphasis on business counseling. We are proud to serve local, national, and international clients, and regularly handle estate planning, tax, and personal litigation matters.

Cades Schutte is organized into four departments-Finance, Real Estate, and Corporate; Litigation; Tax; and Trusts and Estates-but departmental lines are fluid. Cades Schutte attorneys from different departments routinely collaborate on projects to benefit our clients. This approach provides a full array of our firm’s expertise and experience. Utilizing a ‘firm first’ mentality, we’ve adopted a democratic style of management in which the strategic direction and vision for the firm is developed by its partners, and headed up by its Management Committee.

Together, this Committee serves as the firm’s key visionary, and is specifically charged with implementing the direction and mission of the stakeholders.

Mission & Values

Our mission is to provide solutions that are unique, lasting, and substantial. This mission is something we live through our core values.

Excellence

We continually strive to exceed the expectations of our clients and community. If there is a single trait all Cades Schutte attorneys have in common, it is the drive for excellence and to be leaders in the legal community.

Integrity

We do the right thing. Deeply ingrained in our firm culture is the belief that best practices in the legal profession include a high regard for ethics. Our reputation is not just for good work, but for integrity and responsible advocacy as well.

Service

Encompassing every aspect of who we are, service simply is the concept of quality in everything we do, having a service-mindset when working with clients and demanding a lot of ourselves.

Passion

We believe that our energy and enthusiasm are contagious. We are inspired to make a lasting impact, and we are genuine in our excitement for-and devotion to-the practice of law and how we can help our clients.

Collaboration

There is no ‘face’ to our firm. Rather than many separate parts, we are individual pieces of one organization, with one overall mission. We take responsibility for individual and collective actions; the collaborative nature of our culture sets us apart from other law firms.