 The UHELP
director/attorney is Professor James Pietsch. He is the firm’s directing partner. Early in his career, he served as a regular Army officer in the Medical Service Corps and later in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. Upon release from active duty he was the staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii (LASH) Elder Law Unit prior to assuming his position at the law school in 1991. He received national recognition for his work in Elder Law when he was presented with the Paul Lichterman Award. He is the recipient of the Elizabeth and Hung Wo Ching Memorial Award for Faculty Service at the University of Hawaii. In 2007 and 2008 he served as Special Advisor to the Multinational Force-Iraq Law and Order Task Force and as Rule of Law Advisor to the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team.
Lenora Lee is the program administrator/legal assistant. Lennie, who is a graduate of the Kapiolani Community College Legal Assistant Program, was a paralegal at the Legal Aid Society of Hawaii for over 12 years where she served both in the family law unit and the elder law unit. In addition to her experience as a paralegal Lennie has a teaching certificate in secondary education, a Masters Degree in Political Science from the University of Hawaii, and a Masters of Business Administration from Chaminade University. She is an ABD PHD candidate in the Department of Political Science.
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