Young Lawyers Division, Hawaii State Bar Contact: Cindy K. Ching, Vice President Hawaii State Bar Association, YLD E-mail: cchin@aw.law.com (A winner of the 1998 Law Day Activity Awards) Project Description: In Hawaii, Law Week includes family law and elder law clinics, neighborhood Ask-a-Lawyer clinics, a week-long telephone hotline, a radio show and a clinic on intellectual property law at two bookstores. Events also include a naturalization ceremony, classroom visits, student contests, and a reception for contest winners. Activities for the bar include a brown bag seminar on federal rules, a legal staff appreciation essay contest, and golf and fishing tournaments. Sponsoring entity: Young Lawyers Division, Hawaii State Bar Association, Hawaii Lawyers Care, Hawaii Friends of Civic and Law-Related Education, American Civil Liberties Union, University of Hawaii Elder Law Project, and the Hawaii Association of Legal Assistants. Number of volunteers: Over 200 lawyers and judges. Number of people benefiting: Over 870 school children, 120 new citizens, and over 1,000 members of the community at large. Best Things about This Project: "Winners of the art contest are honored at a reception in Honolulu, and children from other islands fly in to receive their awards. We also hold a reception for mock trial competitors at the State Supreme Court and on all other islands." "We use Law Week to try out new ideas that might turn into a yearlong project." "We get a wide variety of volunteers, judges, young lawyers, senior lawyers, and the specialty bar. It gets people out and doing things together. It fosters collegiality." Secret of Success: "Partnering up with different groups enabled us to do things we never could have done on our own. For example, we worked with a university-based group to reach seniors for the elder law clinic. A clinic at a neighborhood store was advertised weeks in advance in the store's newspaper ads. People came prepared with their files and we were able to give them more help." How-to Advice: "The reason why we're able to do so many things is because we have been doing this for a while. I would encourage others who would like to do more to just start out slowly and try a few new things each year." What We Learned: "There should be a good mix of new and experienced people on committees. The new people bring new ideas and more excitement to the programs." Approximate Cost: $11,000, with approximately $4,000 for receptions, $4,000 for insurance, signs, and publicity for clinics, and $3,000 for handout materials. Sample Programs Home | By Audience | By Location | By Sponsoring Organization