About Na
Na Lan earned her J.D. from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa William S. Richardson School of Law in 2009 after completing a bachelor’s degree in atmospheric sciences and meteorology at Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology in 2004. Her academic path combined scientific training and legal study, a background that informs a methodical approach to complex problems. While in law school she worked as a legal research assistant on Chinese labor and employment law, and she spent a summer clerking at the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals in 2008.
Early in her career she served as an advocate for a public interest grantee at the Hawaii Immigrants Justice Center (Na Loio) in 2007. Before earning her law degree she was a graduate research assistant on a climate study at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa’s Department of Meteorology, work that preceded her transition into law. After law school she joined Motooka & Rosenberg (then Motooka & Yamamoto) as a lawyer in 2009, where she handled a range of matters for private and institutional clients.
Lan moved into a role as of counsel at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert in 2017. Three years later the firm elevated her to director, a position she holds today. Over that span she has balanced courtroom experience, appellate exposure and transactional work. She is admitted to practice in Hawaii and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Hawaii.
Her professional memberships are broad. She belongs to the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the American Bar Association. She is active in groups tied to real estate and community governance, including the Community Associations Institute, Hawaii Chapter, and the National Association of Realtors. She also participates in the Commercial Real Estate Women, Hawaii Chapter, and in organizations that reflect ties to the local Chinese business community and international exchange, such as the Chinese Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and the US-China Friendship Association, Honolulu Chapter. She serves on the Supreme Court Committee on Court Interpreters and Language Access.
Colleagues describe Lan as pragmatic and detail-oriented. Clients encounter a lawyer who combines procedural knowledge with attention to language and cultural issues. She maintains work across immigration-related matters, real estate and community association concerns, and matters that involve court interpreting and language access. She currently practices at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert, handling immigration, real estate, community association and language access matters.
