amendments to the Hawaii Rules of Professional Conduct

established by the bar, the lawyer must comply with the
procedure when it is mandatory, and, even when it is voluntary,
the lawyer should conscientiously consider submitting to it. Law
may prescribe a procedure for determining a lawyer's fee, for
example, in representation of an executor or administrator, a
class, or a person entitled to a reasonable fee as part of the
measure of damages. The lawyer entitled to such a fee and a
lawyer representing another party concerned with the fee should
comply with the prescribed procedure.
Rule 1.6. CONFIDENTIALITY OF INFORMATION.
(a) A lawyer shall not reveal confidential information relating to the
representation of a client unless the client consents after consultation, the
disclosure is impliedly authorized in order to carry out the representation, or as
stated in paragraph (b) or (c).
(b) A lawyer may reveal information relating to the representation of a
client to the extent the lawyer reasonably believes necessary:
(1) to prevent the client from committing a criminal or fraudulent act
that the lawyer reasonably believes is likely to result in death or substantial
bodily harm, or in substantial injury to the financial interests or property of
another;
(2) to rectify the consequences of a client’s act which the lawyer
reasonably believes to have been criminal or fraudulent and in the furtherance of
which the lawyer’s services had been used;
(3) to secure legal advice about the lawyer’s compliance with these
Rules;
(4) to establish a claim or defense on behalf of the lawyer in a
controversy between the lawyer and the client, to establish a defense to a
criminal charge or civil claim against the lawyer based upon conduct in which
the client was involved, or to respond to allegations in any proceeding
concerning the lawyer's representation of the client;
(5) to prevent a public official or public agency from committing a
criminal or illegal act that a government lawyer reasonably believes is likely to
result in harm to the public good;
(6) to rectify the consequences of a public official’s or a public
agency’s act which the government lawyer reasonably believes to have been
criminal or illegal and harmful to the public good; or
(7) to the extent strictly necessary to comply with other law, fiduciary
obligations, or court orders.
(c) A lawyer shall reveal information that clearly establishes a
criminal or fraudulent act of the client in the furtherance of which the lawyer’s
services had been used, to the extent reasonably necessary to rectify the
consequences of such act, where the act has resulted in substantial injury to the
financial interests or property of another.
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