Eric S.T. Young
Eric S. T. Young is a sole practitioner with 30 years of experience in estate planning and probate and trust administration and litigation. He is a graduate of Harvard University and the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawai’i.
Eric has been recognized as the “Lawyer of the Year” seven times – in “Litigation – Trust and Estates” (2014, 2018, 2023 and 2025) and “Trusts and Estates” (2020, 2023 and 2025) by the Best Lawyers in America (Hawaii), as reported in Honolulu Magazine. He was named one of Hawaii’s Top 25 attorneys by Super Lawyers (2023) and is recognized by Chambers and Partners, Band 2: Private Wealth Law.
Eric is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, and a member of the Judiciary’s Uniform Probate Code and Probate Court Practices Committee (“UPCC”). The UPCC shepherded the adoption of the Uniform Trust Code as HRS Chapter 554D in 2021. He has taught estate planning at the William S. Richardson School of Law since 2003 and was recognized as Adjunct Professor of the Year (Spring 2008).
Eric was admitted to the Hawaii State Bar in 1992. He began his estate planning career at the law firm Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright in Honolulu, then later served as a Deputy Attorney General in the Tax Division, State of Hawai’i, where he handled tax litigation and charitable trust oversight matters. He has also worked at Carlsmith Ball, LLP (as Of Counsel), before establishing his own law firm.
Eric is a past Chair of the Probate and Estate Planning Section and past Chair of the Elder Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association.