Legal Ethics | Law Ethics Advice for Hawaii Lawyers
| FORMAL WRITTEN OPINIONS ON LAWYER ETHICS ISSUES |
INFORMAL OPINIONS | PAST HAWAI`I BAR JOURNAL ARTICLES ON LEGAL ETHICS |
| Formal written opinions are issued only by the Disciplinary Board and are restricted to questions of broad interest and applicability to the bar. The Disciplinary Board will not issue formal opinions covering individual situations or circumstances. The topics of formal opinions are usually chosen from suggestions by the Hawai`i Supreme Court, the Disciplinary Board, the ODC, and the bar. [MORE]
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Informal verbal opinions are issued by ODC. Informal verbal opinions are of more limited applicability because they address specific factual situations faced by individual attorneys or law firms and are limited to prospective conduct only. ODC devotes a significant amount of time (well over a thousand opinions annually) and effort answering informal opinion requests from Hawai`i attorneys. [MORE] |
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: [MORE] |