Philip Nerney is an attorney who has represented condominium and community associations since 1990. Phil currently serves as Chair of the Community Associations Institute’s (“CAI”) Legislative Action Committee and has served in leadership roles on that committee most years since 2008.  He presently chairs the Condominium Property Regime Task Force created by the legislature in 2023, and is a director of the Community Council of Maui.  He has been a regular seminar speaker on association-related topics since 2004.

Phil has received a variety of awards, including CAI’s President’s Award (2009 and 2010), Volunteer of the Year (2010) and Public Advocate of the Year (2013). The Mediation Center of the Pacific (“MCP”), where he first began mediating, named him Mediator of the Year (2004) and gave him its Conch Shell Award for promoting mediation in 2005. He received the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2008 in relation to his mediation of child abuse and neglect cases for family court (2004 to 2012).  Phil was a volunteer trainer at MCP, primarily from 2003-2008 and form time to time since then.  Other community service includes having served on the Nuuanu Neighborhood Board from 2003 to 2021, as Chair (2011-2020) and as Vice Chair (2009-2011).

He has testified as an expert on condominium operation and governance in matters involving projects on Oahu, Maui, Molokai, Kauai and Hawaii Island.  He is also a trained mediator and arbitrator.