Here's one for all you appellate lawyers and appellate wannabees looking for more experience: the Hawaii Supreme Court last week entered an order making the experimental Pro Bono Appellate Project permanent, "in light of the project's accomplishments since its inception."
This is a good thing, and the Project helps by matching "financially deserving pro se litigants in matters on appeal" with appellate counsel. Count us among the participants (we recently represented pro bono a petitioner in an election law case, which resulted in this opinion).
We will continue to participate in the pool of lawyers, and thank Volunteer Legal Services Hawaii for keeping tabs on the cases and the litigants, and to colleague Rebecca Copeland for taking the initiative to get the project off to a great start.
Order, In re Hawaii Appellate Pro Bono Pilot Project, No. SCMF-15-0000566 (Haw. Apr. 19, 2017)
