Navigating the Rules: Who is the Client? (REC)

Navigating the Rules:  Who is the Client? (REC)
REGISTRATION IS OPEN! Speakers: Na Lan, Director at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert & Mark M. Murakami, Director at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert

Navigating the Rules:  Who is the Client?
(RECORDED)


This program is a recording of the Live Seminar held on November 5, 2020. 
If you attended the live webcast via zoom program; You cannot claim CLE for watching this recorded program.  

Summary:
This seminar will provide an overview of the Model Rules and the Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct relating to attorneys and their ethical duties to their clients.  The seminar will cover representation issues for corporations, associations, and government entities.  It will cover representational issues arising in the insurance defense and third party-litigation funding contexts.  Finally, it will provide some best practices for the day to day issues which can challenge practicing attorneys.   

Speakers:



Na Lan, 
Director
at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
Na Lan is a Director at Damon Key and brings to the firm a unique combination of capabilities and experience in the areas of condominium and community association law, immigration, business and real property transactions, and dispute resolution for Mandarin-speaking investors and business owners. Born and raised in China, she is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English.

Ms. Lan arrived in Hawaii as an international student in 2004. Inspired by a professor’s passion for law, she became fascinated by various trust and estate cases discussed in one of her classes. “I saw how successful individuals made mistakes and how lawyers were able to help to resolve those issues and prevent future disputes.”

She earned her law degree from the University of Hawaii’s William S. Richardson School of Law, where she graduated cum laude. She was the Managing Editor of the Asia Pacific Law & Policy Journal, and also served as an intern for Judge Craig Nakamura of the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals. For three years, she was a legal research assistant on Chinese labor and employment law for Professor Ronald C. Brown. She received the CALI Excellence for the Future Award for the highest grades in Intellectual Property, Second Year Seminar, and Real Property II. She was also an Advocate for Public Interest Law Grantee while serving as a law clerk in the Hawaii Immigrants Justice Center, now merged as part of Legal Aid Society of Hawaii.

Prior to joining Damon Key, Ms. Lan provided legal services through her Honolulu-based law office, The Law Office of Na Lan, LLLC, which focused on business, employment and family-based immigration law. She also practiced condominium and business law as an associate at a boutique law firm in Honolulu.



Mark M. Murakami, 
Director at Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert
Mark M. Murakami practices in the Dispute Resolution, Real Estate and Construction, and Business and Commercial Law practice groups at the Damon Key Leong Kupchak Hastert law firm. His focus is on complex commercial disputes, land use negotiation and litigation, environmental, and general civil litigation. 

Mark was the Valedictorian of the Class of 1999 from the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaii where he served as Articles Editor of the University of Hawaii Law Review. He has received numerous academic awards, including: Dean’s Scholar, Porter Scholastic Award (2 times); Awards for highest grade in Property I, Torts I, Contracts I, Corporations, and Professional Responsibility; Kono Award for Academic Achievement; Phi Delta Phi Professional Responsibility Award; HSBA Real Property and Financial Services Section Award.

He is also a graduate of the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. He served for 13 years on active duty before joining the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve in 2005. During his time on active duty, he served on three different Coast Guard cutters, including command of a patrol boat in California. He has been awarded the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, two Coast Guard Commendation Medals and four Coast Guard Achievement Medals. He is currently a Captain in the U.S. Coast Guard Reserve.

Mark volunteers as a board member/officer of the I’m a Bright Kid Foundation and previously served on the boards of Hawaii Children’s Action Network, Good Beginnings Alliance, and the Hawaii State Bar Association.  His pro bono activities include the cases involving the Hawaii appellate pro bono program, Hawaiian Home Lands, and through the Honolulu District Court self-help center.

 

Duration: approximately 1 hour
Credit: This seminar qualifies for 1 CLE Ethics Credit. 
Cost: $55

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This seminar will be available in your classroom to view for 1 year from the date of purchase OR until November 5, 2022 which ever comes sooner.  

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When
11/5/2020

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