HAWAI`I CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION
Ethics Courses
- Cybersecurity: Preserving Confidentiality and Today’s Top Threats
- Talk to Me! Best Practices for Communicating with Clients
- Implicit Bias in Hawaii’s Legal System – Are We Different from the Mainland?
- Navigating the Rules: Who is the Client?
- Nuts and Bolts of Bankruptcy Law and Procedure (3 CLE including 1 Ethics)
- ODC Best Practices for Solos & Small Firms: A CLE to CYA on Your CTA’s
- Practical Guidance on File Retention and Client Data
- Preventing Sexual Harassment: Practical Steps for Employers
- The ABC’s of ODC
- RPFSS Brown Bag: Legal Ethics and Cybersecurity
- End Games – Preparing Your Law Practice Exit
- The Lawyers’ Fund, the Next Best Alternative
PAST HAWAI`I BAR JOURNAL ARTICLES ON LEGAL ETHICS
Listed below are past Hawai`i Bar Journal articles written by the Chief Disciplinary Counsel on a wide range of topics. These articles are not formal written opinions, but they do provide guidance on issues that attorneys frequently violate:
- Sole-Legacy – Disposition of Files and Funds (November 2019)
- Formal Opinions versus Informal Opinions (October 2014)
- Trust Account Basics Under the New Rules (May 2014)
- The New Hawai`i Rules of Professional Conduct: What you absolutely need to know and why – Part I (March 2014)
- Winding Down A Law Practice (October 2011)
- Interview of Janet Hunt, Chief Disciplinary Counsel (July 2010)
- Limiting Liability to the Client – The Ethical Concerns (April 2010)
- What to Do When You Receive a Letter from the ODC (March 2010)
- Distressed Property Consultants Ethics Alert (November 2009)
- Client Trust Account: Bounced Checks (October 2008)
- Law Firm Names (March 2008)
- Client Trust Account: Books and Records (September 2007)
- Client Trust Account: General Information (April 2007)
- Failure to Communicate, Lack of Diligence, and Failure to Expedite Litigation (January 2007)
- Client Trust Account: IOLTA Compliance and Certification and Notice Form for Financial Institutions (September 2006)
- Missing Clients (April 2006)
- Employing/Contracting Suspended and Disbarred Attorneys (September 2005)
- Client Trust Account: Labeling (January 2005)
- Impartiality and Decorum Applies to the Courts and the Disciplinary Board (August 2004)
- Inactive Status (or administratively suspended for failure to pay mandated bar dues and fees) Attorneys Cannot Practice Law (April 2004)
- Retiring from the Practice of Law (November 2003)
- Client Trust Accounts: Handling and Delegation (March 2003)
- Lawyer Serving as a Fiduciary for an Estate of Trust (November 2002)
- Lawyer Reviewing Legal Documents Prepared by a Non-party Not Licensed to Practice Law in Hawaii (Document Preparation Company) (October 2002)
- Government Attorney Conflicts and Screening Guidelines (March 2001)
- Agreements to Conceal Professional Misconduct or Thwart a Disciplinary Investigation are Unethical (December 2000)
- Client Trust Account: Overdraft or Check Drawn on a Trust Account that is Declined for Non-sufficient Funds (September 1999)
- Lawyer as Witness (December 1998)
- Returning Client Files After Termination (September 1998)
- Disposition of Closed Client Files (April 1998)
- Disposition of Deceased Sole Practitioner’s Client Files and Funds (December 1997)
- Gifts to Judges and Court Employees (December 1997)
- Contacting Employees of an Opposing Party (May 1997)
- Screening Guidelines for Government Employees Coming From a Private Firm (December 1996)
- Confidentiality and the Prospective Client (November 1996)
- Duties to avoid unwarranted delay, distress and inconvenience toward non-clients (August 1994)