Whether you're an experienced Hawaii attorney or newly admitted, here's what you need to know about Hawaii’s mandatory continuing legal education (MCLE) requirements.
| General information | |
|---|---|
| CLE credit requirement | 3 credits annually |
| Categories | 2 General CLE 1 Ethics CLE (only needs to be completed once every 3 years) |
| CLE compliance deadline | December 31 |
| CLE reporting deadline | January 31 |
| Approved Quimbee formats | On-demand Live Webcasts |
| Carryover | 3 credits |
| CLE reporting instructions | Quimbee reports the previous week's attendance to the Hawaii State Bar Association each Wednesday. Please retain your certificate as proof of your attendance. You may also access your certificate from our website at any time. |
Hawaii-licensed attorneys must complete 3 credits each year. One ethics CLE credit must be completed once every three years.
Hawaii-licensed attorneys may complete their requirement through Quimbee's on-demand courses. If attorneys wish, they can also get credit through our live webcasts.
MCLE credits must be completed by December 31 each year.
Yes. You may carry over 3 credits to your next reporting cycle.
The CLE requirement is waived for the calendar year that a member is admitted to the Bar.
Course sponsors are responsible for reporting attorney attendance.
Hawaii attorneys must certify on the annual registration form that they are in compliance by reporting the number of approved credits completed in the previous year, including ethics CLE credits. Hawaii attorneys are required to maintain records of all CLE programs they complete for a minimum of 3 years.
This course provides a solid overview of the history of litigation finance, from its early days in Australia and the United Kingdom, to its current robust existence in the United States. Litigation finance opens up new avenues to capital for businesses and law firms with meritorious claims, but who otherwise would not have been able to pursue them due to the costs associated with doing so. Viewers will leave this lecture with a clear understanding of how litigation finance operates, what challenges it used to be faced with, and how the legal industry has opened up to it. We will also cover the questions practitioners should ask and answer when looking at litigation finance.
Mr. Blitz will focus on civil cases brought by a plaintiff's attorney to trial. This course is intended as an introduction to trying a civil case to verdict and a refresher course for seasoned attorneys. The course will begin with jury selection and proceed through opening statements, direct and cross exam of the plaintiff, defendant and defendant’s experts and continue through summation. We will discuss issues on how best to prepare for trial as well as maximizing jury selection, effective openings, techniques for cross examination and evidence presentation, and other related topics. Mr. Blitz will also discuss those items that trial attorneys face during a trial that require fast and strategic thinking. Mr. Blitz will provide tips and strategies for trial preparation for cases involving devastating injury and wrongful death claims, including how to implement technology and demonstrative evidence to show the devastation the injury caused at trial.
Over the course of the past few decades, the proliferation of internet connectivity and new technology has allowed stalkers to terrorize their victims from afar. Many state stalking laws are difficult to apply in the best of circumstances, but cyberstalking is often more anonymous, and a stalker’s identify can be hard to prove. This program will discuss the law that applies to stalking, special considerations when cyberstalking is involved, and strategies for collecting, preserving, and preparing to introduce evidence of cyberstalking.
COVID has fundamentally transformed employer/employee relationships worldwide. Now, as we emerge from the pandemic―or as COVID becomes endemic―employers are reversing, undoing or altering their height-of-the-pandemic approach to telecommuting. Of course, multinationals have lots of questions about the global transition back to the physical work site: ∙ Should employees returning to physical worksites be able to telecommute more than pre-pandemic? ∙ How can an employer revamp or relax height-of-the-pandemic workplace safety precautions―vaccine screening, mask mandates, exposure notifications and the like? ∙ What communications should an employer make, to convince staff that the workplace is safe? ∙ And: How does a multinational employer align its return-to-worksite initiatives across borders? This fast-paced session offers a multinational employer global strategies for getting staff back to the workplace post-pandemic, or during a COVID endemic.
In this beginning to intermediate course, learn from an expert with more than 14 years of asylum experience on the best practices and tips on how to prepare the asylum application and additional supplemental materials to put your client’s best case forward. Whether it's your first time, or you have experience, compare notes and learn suggestions from a diversified successful asylum practice by immigration attorney Ruby L. Powers. Learn asylum office specific advice on preferences for filing deadlines and specific details of various asylum offices. In addition to the application and supplemental materials, learn how to prepare your client for the best asylum interview or immigration court hearing experience. This course will cover the three sections of the affirmative asylum interview and best practices to prepare your client for a smooth experience in an already stressful process. Assimilate the best practices on how to prepare your client for the immigration court hearing and being cross examined by the trial attorney and the immigration judge. Study how to formulate and anticipate questions so your client will be prepared for the interview or hearing.
Cognitive wellness is critical to lawyers’ long-term success. Negative mindsets, perfectionism, and anxiety can contribute to declines in cognitive wellness. When these declines in cognitive wellness impair your ability to effectively practice law, you may be violating your professional obligations. In this course, Dr. Patti McCartney introduces participants to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)-based methods for sharpening cognitive tools. Attendees will learn how this rational approach to reframing challenges can help you distinguish yourself in the management of cases and professional conflicts.
Blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies present many complicated legal issues and attorneys need to be aware of these issues to provide competent legal representation. In addition, blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies are creating a new area of law that presents an excellent opportunity for attorneys looking to expand their practice or to be seen as a legal thought leader in their organization.
Preliminary injunctions and temporary restarting orders are extraordinary remedies whose use have recently been on the rise. Success in getting a court to grant requires passing rigid procedural hurdles and satisfying high standards of proof. In this one hour program, we will review various factors to consider when obtaining preliminary injunctions and temporary restraining orders as well as discuss issues that should be considered prior to filing for injunctive relief. Injunctions can be useful tools in protecting assets and halting wrongdoing but, injunctive relief means only as much as the ability to enforce it.
Have you ever wondered which laws and rules govern space activity? This course will provide an overview of the different ways that international, national, and state authorities regulate space travel and exploration, basic terminology, and jurisdiction. It will also cover licensing procedures for commercial space travel.
Welcome to Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act: Marketing, Promotions & Illegal Kickbacks. With the recent real estate market downturn and rising interest rates, lenders are scrambling to find customers and close loans. This leads to potential ethical and regulatory violations concerning marketing practices, especially co-marketing with real estate agents. This course covers the strict federal requirements that financial service lawyers must know to comply with RESPA marketing and promotion requirements.
No visa attracts more interest, frustration, and questions than the H-1B, which is subject to a strict numerical cap and much scrutiny. Immigration attorneys must be able to present clients with alternative options, while addressing a range of questions. Which nonimmigrant (temporary) visas most closely resemble the H-1B in terms of eligibility requirements, as well as benefits and restrictions? What other options might facilitate obtaining an immigrant visa (green card)? This course will provide a survey of nonimmigrant visa categories that typically apply to these circumstances, while considering issues such as timeframes, eligibility requirements, and how different categories might fit or conflict with each other––with the goal of providing the view with as much information as they need to help a client feel informed about and comfortable with the options presented.
Representing both the husband and wife in estate planning? Assisting with the divorce of your favorite friends? Asked to represent co-defendants or multiple family members in a criminal, personal injury, or immigration case? New clients want to pay you with stock in their enterprise? From family law, trust and estates, and business law to criminal, personal injury, and immigration law, conflicts of interest exist as a fundamental concern in the practice of law. If ignored or misunderstood, fundamental concerns can create significant problems for the unwary lawyer. What’s a lawyer to do? Step one: assess whether there is a conflict of interest. Step two: analyze whether it is consent-able or impermissible. Step three: proceed accordingly. This course will explore these steps in the context of the conflict of interest rules and their applications in the everyday practice of law.
Recently, there have been questions regarding income inequality that have fueled trends in questioning the wisdom and fairness of today’s executive compensation practice. In this course, we will dive into the latest ESG updates and review significant litigation highlights and case law, as well as examine recent compliance obligations and best practices.
This course will address the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on civil rights and civil liberties in the United States. AI issues constitute a fast-changing legal landscape in which courts and regulators are attempting to keep pace with rapid technological changes. Automated decision systems now affect the housing, employment, education, and credit opportunities people are given. They also affect liberty and due process rights when used by government agencies. This course will provide an overview of key legal issues that are emerging in civil rights and liberties contexts because of the use of artificial intelligence.
At two years into the pandemic, remote work is still a fact of life for many employers and employees, and cyber threats continue to rise. What are the challenges in ensuring that employers’ privacy and security policies are compliant and effective in these circumstances? This program will review regulators’ current best practices and provide tools to help lawyers advise their clients on the cybersecurity and data privacy rules and principles essential in remote work environments.
Students and faculty alike are protected from discrimination in education under Federal Law. If an educational program receives federal funds, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 prohibits discrimination based on sex, and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 prohibits discrimination based on disability. Nonetheless, the remedies available under these laws were drastically limited by the US Supreme Court, on April 28, 2022, when its decision in Cummings v. Premier Rehab Keller cutoff victims' right to recover emotional distress damages. Learn what remedies remain under these federal laws and how the Court's narrow reasoning left emotional distress damages available under other anti-discrimination statutes. This course will break-down the Cummings Case and prepare you to litigate education discrimination under its new rubric.
In this course you will learn some of the most common ethical issues faced by lawyers today. We will address changing ethical obligations related to technology advancements as well as overseeing the actions of third-party vendors and non-lawyers within a law firm. We will also discuss the importance of attorney-client retainer agreements and ongoing duties owed to clients including communication and avoidance of conflicts.
This course will provide an overview of the Duty of Confidentiality under Model Rule 1.6 as well as privilege and work product rules. We will cover the legal basis of an exceptions to both confidentiality and privilege. This course will analyze the tests to apply and real world application, as well as exploring the overlap of the rules of evidence.
Noncompetes are clauses in employment contracts that restrict employees from taking new jobs with competitors. As a type of restrictive covenant, they have been around for centuries. In this course, Russell Beck will go over different sorts of noncompetes and how have they've been regulated historically. He will also cover the economic impacts of noncompete agreements and recent legislative and regulatory proposals at the state and federal levels to help you advise your clients about noncompetes.
This program will briefly discuss the purpose of the IDEA and the standard for individualized education programs (IEPs), and will discuss more in-depth the sections of IEPs and what they should entail. This program will also cover evaluations, and what districts are required to do, as well as parent’s rights. The program will be New York based, but New York’s regulations strongly mirror federal law, and differences will be noted. It will also cover updates in special education law, including the COVID pandemic and its impact. This program will benefit new attorneys to the special education field, and attorneys who are seeking to better understand what an IEP is, how it is created, and what it is based on in order to be appropriate.
This course provides a solid overview of the history of litigation finance, from its early days in Australia and the United Kingdom, to its current robust existence in the United States. Litigation finance opens up new avenues to capital for businesses and law firms with meritorious claims, but who otherwise would not have been able to pursue them due to the costs associated with doing so. Viewers will leave this lecture with a clear understanding of how litigation finance operates, what challenges it used to be faced with, and how the legal industry has opened up to it. We will also cover the questions practitioners should ask and answer when looking at litigation finance.
Mr. Blitz will focus on civil cases brought by a plaintiff's attorney to trial. This course is intended as an introduction to trying a civil case to verdict and a refresher course for seasoned attorneys. The course will begin with jury selection and proceed through opening statements, direct and cross exam of the plaintiff, defendant and defendant’s experts and continue through summation. We will discuss issues on how best to prepare for trial as well as maximizing jury selection, effective openings, techniques for cross examination and evidence presentation, and other related topics. Mr. Blitz will also discuss those items that trial attorneys face during a trial that require fast and strategic thinking. Mr. Blitz will provide tips and strategies for trial preparation for cases involving devastating injury and wrongful death claims, including how to implement technology and demonstrative evidence to show the devastation the injury caused at trial.
Over the course of the past few decades, the proliferation of internet connectivity and new technology has allowed stalkers to terrorize their victims from afar. Many state stalking laws are difficult to apply in the best of circumstances, but cyberstalking is often more anonymous, and a stalker’s identify can be hard to prove. This program will discuss the law that applies to stalking, special considerations when cyberstalking is involved, and strategies for collecting, preserving, and preparing to introduce evidence of cyberstalking.
COVID has fundamentally transformed employer/employee relationships worldwide. Now, as we emerge from the pandemic―or as COVID becomes endemic―employers are reversing, undoing or altering their height-of-the-pandemic approach to telecommuting. Of course, multinationals have lots of questions about the global transition back to the physical work site: ∙ Should employees returning to physical worksites be able to telecommute more than pre-pandemic? ∙ How can an employer revamp or relax height-of-the-pandemic workplace safety precautions―vaccine screening, mask mandates, exposure notifications and the like? ∙ What communications should an employer make, to convince staff that the workplace is safe? ∙ And: How does a multinational employer align its return-to-worksite initiatives across borders? This fast-paced session offers a multinational employer global strategies for getting staff back to the workplace post-pandemic, or during a COVID endemic.
