Hsba Happenings

• Publication year: 2022

HSBA HAPPENINGS

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HSBA Board Action

The HSBA Board took the following actions at its meeting in August:

• Adopted the recommendation of the joint Executive-Finance Committee to approve the proposed 2023 budget for the Goal Group's civic education and community service projects and events.

• Approved the recommendation of the Awards Committee and noted the HSBA President's selection to honor the following recipients with HSBA Awards at the Annual Meeting being held in conjunction with virtual Bar Convention on October 14, 2022:

Charles F. Fell - C. Frederick Schutte Award (for outstanding and meritorious service to the legal community and the profession);

Chief Judge Richard T. Bissen (Retired) - Golden Gavel Award (for outstanding service to the state or federal judiciary);

Karen Char - Greeley Key Award for Innovation (for out-of-the-box legal work that involves promoting new and creative uses of, or approaches to, the law as a positive force in our community or world); and

Judge Joseph E. Cardoza (Retired) - HSBA President's Award (for extraordinary contributions and lifetime achievement that best exemplify the mission statement of the HSBA).

• Approved the recommendation of the Working Group to give active HSBA members in Hawaii a hard copy and an electronic version of the Hawaii Bar Journal beginning January 2023.

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