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CAROLE R. RICHELIEU is the former and longest serving chief disciplinary counsel of Hawaii's Office of Disciplinary Counsel and former fund administrator for the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection. She is currently a per diem hearings officer, hearing unemployment appeals for the State Department of Labor, and a legal ethics expert and instructor. She has made numerous presentations on legal ethics, client protection, practice management, and professionalism, as well as written many articles and contributed to numerous manuals. She was a member of the Hawaii's Supreme Court's Commission on Professionalism, and a co-chair and faculty on the court's course on professionalism since its inception. Ms. Richelieu has served as a Supreme Court appointee to the Chief Justice's National Action Plan (producing the first one in the nation), the Committee to Review the Code of Judicial Conduct; the Committee on the Certification of Legal Specialists; the Committee on Unbundling Legal Services/Unauthorized Practice of Law; and continues to serve on the Board of Examiners in various capacities. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Bencher with the American Inns of Court, a poll official and a notary. Ms. Richelieu is a member of the American Bar Association, the Hawaii State Bar Association (on which she served many committees and is a director for the Senior Counsel Division), the National Organization of Bar Counsel, and the ABA Center for Professional Responsibility. She was appointed by the ABA to serve on the ABA Advisory Commission on Lawyers' Funds for Client Protection (2000 - 2001) and Chair the Commission (2001 - 2002), and was a member of the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection through 2009. A former vice-president and president of the National Client Protection Organization, she served as NCPO's liaison to the ABA Standing Committee on Client Protection and ABA Center Coordinating Council. Ms. Richelieu has participated in the International Association of Trial Lawyers China Project and fund raising for the Hawaii Women Legal Foundation for many years, and served on the American Judicature Society's Special Committee on Court Conflicts. She is also a very active community volunteer.
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