James A. Stanton

James A. Stanton is the principal of Stanton Law Group and holds an of counsel relationship with Clay Chapman, a law firm he founded over 25 years ago. Mr. Stanton emphasizes immigration and business law in his practice.

He is a native of Marion, Indiana, and a graduate of Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he majored in history, political science and psychology. He received his Juris Doctor from the George Washington University, School of Law, Washington, D.C. While attending law school, he worked for the United States Department of State.

In 1965, he transferred to the United States Department of Interior, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, in Palau, Western Caroline Islands, as a District Legal and Land Title Officer. Later, he moved to Saipan, where he was employed on the High Commissioner’s staff as an Assistant Attorney General. He returned to Hawaii in 1972, where he worked as in-house counsel for Hawaiiana Investment Company, Inc., the land development and leisure-time subsidiary of C. Brewer and Company, Limited. He left C. Brewer and Company in 1976 to enter the private practice of law.

Mr. Stanton has taught business law at Hawaii Pacific University and has completed a rotation as an Adjunct Professor of Immigration Law at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law. He is also Judge Advocate to the United States Navy League and a former director of the United States Pacific Fleet Submarine Memorial Association (USS BOWFIN) at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

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