Credit: 1 CLE Ethics Credit

This is the registration for the New Admittees Only. To return to registration for all other HSBA members, please go back to the list of courses

NOTE: After purchasing the recorded webcast by December 31, 2025, 10:00 P.M., it will be available to view and receive credit by December 31, 2025, 11:59 P.M.

Reminder: must take all 3 courses to fulfill RSCH 1.14 requirement*

*Notes to New Admittees: The 2025 Supreme Court Rule 1.14 Professionalism Course will be presented online as 3 separate, convenient on-demand webinars. Rule 1.14(a) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii ("RSCH") requires that each person licensed to practice law after July 1, 2001, shall, no later than December 31 of the following year of election of active status, complete the Hawaii Professionalism Course conducted under the joint sponsorship of the Hawaii State Bar Association ("HSBA") and the Supreme Court of Hawaii. Failure to complete this course within the time period specified shall result in automatic administrative suspension of one's license to practice law. Please note, any person eligible to take the November 2020 Hawaii Professionalism Course shall be afforded an additional one year to comply with Rule 1.14(a) of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. (SCMF-12-0000538).

RSCH 1.14 (ADMISSION TO THE BAR: Mandatory professionalism course), RSCH 22 (MANDATORY CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION), and RSCH 17 (THE HAWAI‘I STATE BAR)

Moderator:

Hayley Y. C. Cheng, Deputy Public Defender
Hayley Y. C. Cheng received her Bachelor’s in Communication Studies from Loyola Marymount University in 2002.  She received her Juris Doctorate from the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2006.  From August 2006 – August 2007, she was the law clerk for the Honorable Richard W. Pollack at the Circuit Court of the First Circuit. 

She is currently a Deputy Public Defender at the Oahu office. Ms. Cheng is also a member of the Judicial Administration Committee, and the Hawaii State Trial Judges Association (HSTJA)/HSBA Joint Committee, and previously served on the Model Penal Code Review Committee, Co-Chair of the HSBA’s Professionalism and Risk Management Committee, and the Rule 19 Committee on Judicial Performance.  

Speakers:

Liam Deeley, Executive Director of the Attorney’s and Judge’s Assistance Program
Liam M. Deeley, JD is the Executive Director of the Attorney’s and Judge’s Assistance Program. Before becoming the AAP executive director in 2014, Mr. Deeley worked as a public defender, a human resource manager, and a certified assessment and referral specialist and case manager for Treatment Alternatives for Safer Communities (TASC). He also provided assessments and testified as an expert witness in sentencing hearings for Illinois drug courts.

Mr. Deeley serves as the chair of the Nomination Committee and as a member of the Professionalism Committees of the Hawaii Supreme Court, in addition to serving on the HSBA’s Transitioning Lawyers and Wellness Committees. 

Summer Kaiawe, Partner at Watanabe Ing
Summer Kaiawe is a partner at Watanabe Ing where she primarily handles business and real property litigation, land use entitlements, and intellectual property matters.  Summer is the current Chair of the HSBA Well-Being Committee,  and was the 2019 President of the HSBA Young Lawyers Division. Summer also currently serves on boards of directors for community organizations including Partners in Development, Aloha Harvest, and Helping Hands Hawaii. She is a 2011 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law. 

Dr. Cindy Goodness Zane 
Born and raised in Pearl City, Hawai?i, Cindy is a local girl at heart, of multiethnic backgrounds and strongly identifies with her Hawaiian and Japanese ancestries. She started her professional life as a civil litigation attorney with Damon Key Bocken Leong & Kupchak, and spent the bulk of her legal career as a trial attorney with the Office of the Public Defender.

Moved to help people beyond their legal problems, Cindy became a Clinical Psychologist who enjoys working with couples, families and individuals of diverse backgrounds, identities and varied life experiences to overcome life on challenges through strengthening of their relationships. After all, life is less scary and most meaningful when we have close others to share it with. Now Certified by the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) as an international Trainer, Supervisor and Therapist, Cindy provides: (1) training and supervision to clinicians throughout Hawaii, North America and around the world; (2) intensive therapy to couples; and (3) leadership and well-being consultation/presentations to organizations seeking to nurture its most precious resources, its people.

Bradley R. Tamm

(Updated bio coming)

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