This essay describes the collaboration of the author with a community-based organization of women serving a predominantly, but not exclusively, immigrant and diasporic Filipino community in the county of Hawai'i to co-create an education project. It offers an analysis of two seemingly divergent communities and their presumably distinct practices…

Attempts to familiarize the reader with the current extent of use of the legal assistant, to analyze the major sources of attorney resistance to the more extensive use of the legal assistant, and to make predictions of the extent to which legal assistants will be utilized within the next ten years. (Author/RK)

Focuses on the neglect of planning by the legal profession to distribute its skills, to deliver legal services. (Author/RK)

Examines the vision of the planners of the University of Hawaii School of Law with the focus on twelve specific aims for the school. (Author/RK)

Describes and explains the program of skill training at the University of Hawaii School of Law, with special emphasis on the first-year Legal Method Seminar. (Author/RK)

The author presents a rationale for offering comparative study of national legal systems to first-year law students, either as a basis for their legal education or as a single introductory course. (SJL)