Elise C. Anderson belongs to the Construction and Insurance practice groups at GRSM.  She is excited to unite her lifelong passions for math and physics, and longtime fascinations with architecture and urban planning, with her growing practice of law.  During her decade of professional development after graduating from Princeton and before matriculating at Georgetown Law, Elise enjoyed a range of experiences in public policy, teaching, research, television, editorial work, small business and construction management, in Hawaii, California and Europe.  Highlights include staffing five legislative sessions in the Hawaii State Senate and House of Representatives, a year-long internship at NASA Ames Research Center, teaching English in the Czech Republic, and completing the University of Hawaii pre-medical curriculum with the highest Organic Chemistry average of all students that year.  

In law school, Elise’s favorite courses were in Analytical Methods, Evidence, Intellectual Property, and Administrative Law, and she did her semester externship with the Maryland AG’s Organized Crimes Unit.  At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, she was the only summer intern reporting directly to the Washington, D.C. Department of Health General Counsel himself.  While living in Washington, D.C. during the remainder of law school and shortly after graduating, she returned to DC Health for a clerkship.  Upon coming home to practice law in Hawaii, Elise joined a Honolulu-based law firm specializing in trust and estate litigation, where she helped to earn satisfying results in probate and trust disputes, contested conservatorships and guardianships, and a high-profile set of civil rights claims.  Also prior to joining GRSM, she clerked for a Los Angeles-based commercial litigation firm. Elise is licensed to practice law in the U.S. Federal District of Hawaii and in the State Courts of Hawaii and Washington.

Admissions

• Hawaii
• Washington

Community Involvement

• King Kamehameha V Judiciary History Center, Board Member,
• Hawaii State Bar Association Elder Law Section Board, Vice Chair