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Location: South Pacifc 1
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
CLE Credits: 3 MCPE
Chief Justice Mark E.
Recktenwald was sworn in as
Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court on September 14, 2010.
He joined the Supreme Court
as an Associate Justice on
May 11, 2009, and previously
served as Chief Judge of the
Intermediate Court of Appeals
beginning in April 2007. Prior
to his appointment to the
Intermediate Court of Appeals,
Recktenwald served as the director of the Department of
Commerce and Consumer Afairs, as an Assistant United
States Attorney for the District of Hawai`i, and as an
attorney in private practice. He received his undergraduate
degree from Harvard University and his law degree from
the University of Chicago.
THE HONORABLE MARK E. RECKTENWALD
COURSE DESCRIPTION PRESENTERS
THE HONORABLE CRAIG H. NAKAMURA
Chief Judge Craig H. Nakamura
was sworn in as Chief Judge
of the Intermediate Court of
Appeals on September 16,
2009. He graduated from `Iolani
School in 1974 and received
his bachelors degree from the
University of Hawai`i in 1978.
Judge Nakamura graduated
cum laude from Harvard Law
School in 1981. After law school, Judge Nakamura was a law
clerk for U.S. Circuit Judge Herbert Choy and an associate
with the frm of Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn & Stifel. In 1986,
he became an Assistant U.S. Attorney, a position he held
until his appointment to the Intermediate Court of Appeals
as an Associate Judge on April 8, 2004.
Judge Nakamura previously taught Appellate Advocacy as
an adjunct professor at the William S. Richardson School
of Law and served as a director of the Hawai`i State Bar
Association.
Appellate Practce:
Views from Inside the Court
This seminar will include several excitng
and informatve panels. Our speakers
include civil and criminal appellate
practtoners, Hawaii Supreme Court
Justces, and Hawaii Intermediate Court
of Appeals Judges, such as Former Hawaii
Supreme Court Justce Simeon R. Acoba,
Jr., Associate Judge Alexa D.M. Fujise of
the Intermediate Court of Appeals, Donn
Fudo of the City and County of Honolulus
Department of the Prosecutng Atorney,
and Craig Jerome of the State of Hawaii
Ofce of the Public Defender.
Topics include appellate jurisdicton, an
insiders view of the Hawaii appellate
courts, and criminal appeals.
The popular Appellate Queston and
Answer Panel, comprised this year of
Chief Justce Mark E. Recktenwald, Former
Hawaii Supreme Court Associate Justce
James E. Dufy, Jr., and Intermediate Court
of Appeals Chief Judge Craig H. Nakamura
will once again be featured.
THE HONORABLE SIMEON R. ACOBA, JR. (Ret.)
Justice Simeon R. Acoba, Jr. is a
former Hawaii Supreme Court
Associate Justice. He served
on the court from 2000-2014.
Justice Acoba also served on
the Intermediate Court of
Appeals and the First Circuit
Court. Justice Acoba received
his undergraduate degree from
the University of Hawaii, and his
law degree from Northwestern
University Law School.
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PRESENTERS (continued)
DANIEL JAMES KUNKEL
Daniel James Kunkel received
his juris doctor degree from
the University of San Diego
School of Law in 1993, and for
two years he served as a judicial
clerk for Supreme Court of
Hawaii Associate Justice Paula
Nakayama. Licensed to practice
law in seven jurisdictions, Mr.
Kunkel worked as a trial attorney
for the Honolulu Department
of Corporation Counsel, as well
as the law frms of McCorriston
Miller Mukai MacKinnon and
Ashford & Wriston. In 2002, Mr. Kunkel began working as a
staf attorney for the Supreme Court of Hawaii, and when
substantial changes in appellate jurisdiction went into
efect in 2006, Mr. Kunkel began working as a staf attorney
for the Hawaii Intermediate Court of Appeals, where he
assists the appellate judges with, among other things, their
analysis of appellate jurisdiction.
Associate Judge Alexa D.M.
Fujise was with the City
and County of Honolulus
Department of the Prosecuting
Attorney between 1984 and
2004. Before her departure,
she became the director of
the Research and Reference
Support Division. Throughout
her 20-year tenure with the
department, Judge Fujise also
served as appellate research
branch chief and deputy prosecuting attorney. Judge
Fujise also worked as assistant disciplinary counsel for
the Ofce of Disciplinary Counsel, where she investigated
and prosecuted violations of the Code of Professional
Responsibility by attorneys in the State of Hawai`i. She
started her legal career in 1980 as a law clerk to then-
Associate Justice Herman T.F. Lum. Judge Fujise, who has
specialized in criminal and constitutional law, is licensed
to practice in the U.S. District Court of Hawai`i, U.S. Court
of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court. She
earned her bachelors and law degrees from the University
of Hawai`i. She has been on the Board of the William S.
Richardson School of Law Alumni Association since 1980
and was the recipient of the Deans Distinguished Alumni
Award in 2005. Judge Fujise taught appellate practice
seminars for the National District Attorneys Association
and the William S. Richardson School of Law.
THE HONORABLE ALEXA D. M. FUJISE
Deirdre Marie-Iha is an attorney with the Appellate Division
for the Department of the Attorney General. She graduated
from Cornell University in 1996 and the University of
Colorado School of Law in 1999. Deirdre practiced in
California until 2003. In 2003, she clerked for Associate
Judge Corinne K.A. Watanabe at the Intermediate Court of
Appeals. In 2004, she joined the Attorney Generals ofce
and has been there ever since. Deirdre works on a wide
variety of matters in both the State and Federal courts,
with a heavy emphasis on constitutional law and appeals.
DEIRDRE MARIE-IHA
THE HONORABLE JAMES E. DUFFY, JR. (Ret.)
Justice James E. Dufy, Jr. is a
former Hawaii Supreme Court
Associate Justice. He served
on the court from 2003-2012.
Prior to serving on the Supreme
Court, Justice Dufy was a
founding member of the frm
Fujiyama, Dufy and Fujiyama,
and a practicing trial lawyer
for 35 years. Justice Dufy is
a graduate of the College of
St. Thomas and Marquette
University Law School (1968) where he was a member of
the Board of Editors of the Marquette Law Review.
Randy Q. Pinal has been the Hawai`i Intermediate Court of
Appeals Supervising Staf Attorney since 2012. He serves
on the standing committee to review the Hawaii Rules
of Appellate Procedure, and several committees charged
with implementing the Judiciarys 20/20 Strategic Plan.
He previously served as a Supervising Deputy Attorney
General in the California Attorney Generals Ofce, where
he practiced civil, criminal, and administrative law at all
levels in state and federal court, and received the Attorney
Generals Award for Outstanding Client Representation. He
also was a contributing author and editor of the American
Indian Law Deskbook.
RANDY Q. PINAL
Craig Jerome graduated summa cum laude in 2007 from
the William S. Richardson School of Law at the University
of Hawai`i. While attending the Richardson School of Law,
he was a member of the editorial board of the University
of Hawai`i Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for
the Honorable Richard W. Pollack. Since 2008, he has
been employed as a Deputy Public Defender for the State
of Hawai`i. He has also served as a Lecturer in Law at the
Richardson School of Law.
CRAIG JEROME

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