William S. Richardson School of Law
University of Hawai'i at Manoa

KE KULA KANAWAI
"The Law School"

Congratulations to the ENVIRONMENTAL MOOT COURT TEAM and the CLIENT COUNSELING TEAM!

After surviving the East Coast snow storm, the Environmental Law Moot Court Team, DELLA AU BELLATI 3L, STANTON OISHI 3L, and SUMMER KAPAU 2L (accompanied by Team Assistant DAWN NEKOBA 2L and coach PROF. DENISE ANTOLINI) won the OVERALL BEST BRIEF AWARD in the National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition! This is the first time that the UH team has won the Overall Best Brief award in our 13 years of competition at Pace University, although we won first place in 1999. This year's award builds on the success of last year's team, which won the best brief award for the appellee category. Over 70 teams from the US and Canada participated in this year's competition. DELLA also picked up two oralist awards in the preliminary rounds.

Our Client Counseling Team, BRENDAN BAILEY 3L, RHONDA CHING 2L, MAX HANNEMANN 3L and VAN LUONG 3L, are bringing home a Regional Championship from the ABA Client Counseling Competition! The foursome now advances to the national championship tournament on March 15, 2003 in Florida. BRENDAN and VAN placed first with perfect scores from each of the twelve judges they faced. They are only the second pair ever from Hawaii to do so. MAX and RHONDA also placed among the top four pairs in a highly competitive bracket, which included the defending national champions and host of the event, Chapman University School of Law. Hawaii has now won six regional titles in eight years. PROF. CALVIN PANG, DEAN LAURIE TOCHIKI and ANGELA LOVITT ’97 coached the team. In 1996, ANGELA and her partner, STEVE HARTLEY ’96 were the first Client Counseling Team from Hawaii to earn perfect scores in their regional.

The UH Board of Regents honored our INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL MOOT COURT TEAM on Friday for their outstanding 2nd place finish (first in the US, 2nd in the world) at the international competition in November. Team members KANOE KANE 3L, JOSH MEDEIROS 2L and KIM CHANBONPIN 3L were joined by Team Coach DOUG CODIGA ‘94, who accepted the award on behalf of the team.

CHRIS IIJIMA spoke at a Day of Remembrance event on February 17 which was covered in the February 18, 2003, Honolulu Advertiser.

JIM PIETSCH and the UH Elder Law Program received coverage in the Honolulu Advertiser three-day front-page series "Suffering In Silence: Hawaii's Elderly Victims.” The lack of specific state laws to protect the elderly has led to difficulty in prosecuting elderly abuse and neglect. The Tuesday, Feb. 18 issue included a large color photo of PROF. PIETSCH with research assistant SCOTT SUZUKI 2L in the background.

ERIC YAMAMOTO, SUSAN KIYOMI SERRANO ’98, and Eva Paterson filed a friends-of-the court brief in the US Supreme Court supporting the University of Michigan School of Law’s admission program. The amicus curiae brief was filed on February 18, 2003, by the Equal Justice Society on behalf of the Coalition for Economic Equity, an association of minority businesses in California, the Santa Clara University School of Law Center for Social Justice and Public Service, the California Association of Black Lawyers, the Charles Houston Bar Association and the Justice Collective. This affirmative action case has been described as "the single most important civil rights issue since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education." The brief supports the admissions policies of the Univ. of Michigan Law School, which is under attack by white applicants who claim that considering race as one factor among many in admissions decisions is unlawful. SUSAN is the Project Director for Equal Justice Society, A Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights.

112 students (40% of our student body) signed-on the student amicus brief recently submitted to the US Supreme Court in support of diversity in higher education. 13,922 law students across the nation signed-on.

TRISHA WATSON PERREIRA 3L and her husband David Perreira have a new son, Kawika Perreira, born February 19, 2003 at 12:20 in the afternoon. Mother and baby doing well. Kawika weighed 9lbs, 4½ oz!

BRUCE CAMPBELL’86 was featured in Lee Cataluna's column on Feb. 9. 2003, regarding his selfless volunteer efforts to improve athletic playing fields for Hawaii's keiki.

MICHAEL QIU ’92 and PING YE ’94 both met with DEAN FOSTER on his recent trip to Asia. MICHAEL is the General Counsel at Proctor & Gamble’s office in Guangzhou and is in charge of China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. PING is doing corporate securities at Simmons & Simmons in Hong Kong.