Rule 14.4 - Scope of practiceA person licensed as a foreign law consultant under this rule may render legal services in the State of Hawai'i, subject, however, to the limitations that such person shall not:
(a) appear for another person as attorney in any court or before any magistrate or other judicial officer in the State of Hawai'i, or prepare pleadings or any other papers in any action or proceeding brought in any such court or before any such judicial officer, except as authorized in Rule 1.9 relating to admission pro hac vice; or (b) prepare any deed, mortgage, assignment, discharge, lease, agreement of sale or any other instrument affecting title to real estate located in the United States of America; or (c) prepare: (1) any will or trust instrument effecting the disposition of any property located in the United States of America and owned by a resident thereof; or (2) any instrument relating to the administration of a decedent's estate in the United States of America; or (d) prepare any instrument in respect of the marital relations, rights or duties of a resident of the United States of America or the custody or care of the children of such a resident; or (e) render professional legal advice on the law of the State of Hawai'i or the United States of America or any other state or territory of the United States of America or the District of Columbia or any foreign country other than the country of admission as an attorney or counselor at law or the equivalent (whether rendered incident to the preparation of legal instruments or otherwise) except on the basis of advice from a person admitted to the practice of law as an attorney in the State of Hawai'i or such other state or territory or the District of Columbia or as an attorney or counselor at law or the equivalent in such other foreign country who has been consulted by the foreign law consultant in the particular matter at hand and who has been identified to the client by name; or (f) in any way represent that such person is licensed as an attorney in the State of Hawai'i, or as an attorney or foreign law consultant in another state or territory or the District of Columbia, or as an attorney or counselor at law or the equivalent in a foreign country, unless so licensed; or (g) use any title other than "foreign law consultant"; provided that such person's authorized title and firm name in the foreign country in which such person is admitted to practice as an attorney or counselor at law or the equivalent may be used if the title, firm name, and the name of such foreign country are stated together with the title "foreign law consultant." Added May 12, 1986, effective 7/1/1986; amended March 2, 2007, effective 7/1/2007.