Brook Hart
Criminal Law; State and Federal Criminal Investigations, Trials, Appeals and Post-Conviction Representation Lawyers in Honolulu, HI in Honolulu, HI
Education
Legal Education
- Columbia Law School, New York, New York
- LL.B.
Non Legal Education
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
- B.A.
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner
Past Positions
- Hon. Martin Pence, Chief Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Hawaii, Law Clerk, 1966 - 1967
- Law Offices of Hy Greenstein, Associate, 1968 - 1970
- Legal Aid Society of Hawaii, Chief Public Defender, 1970 - 1972
- Hart, Sherwood, Leavitt, Blanchfield & Hall (and its progeny), Partner, 1972 - 1980
- Hart & Wolff, Partner, 1980 - 1996
Classes and Seminars
- Speaker, Advanced Criminal Law Seminars, Aspen, Colorado, 1981, 1985, 1987, 1992
- Faculty, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 1987
- Faculty, Hawaii Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1988
- Speaker, NACDL Aspen CLE Seminar, 2000
- Faculty Member, ABA-LEI National Continuing Legal Education Conference, Vail, Colorado, 2001
- Adjunct Professor / Lecturer in Law at the University of Hawaii Law School, Hawaii Innocence Project Seminar, Course Nos.: LAW 590S & 590T, 2005 - Present
- Faculty, NACDL 4th Annual West Coast White Collar Criminal Defense Conference, San Diego, California, 2014
Published Works
Articles
- Hawaii's New Public Defender Legislation: A Study in Legislative Overkill (Co-Author), 8 Hawaii Bar Journal 53, 1971
- Report and Guidelines for the Defense of Eligible Persons, National Study Commission on Defense Services, NLADA-LEAA (Co-Author), 1976
- Preliminary Hearings, Public Defender Sourcebook, Singer, Ed., Chapter 5, PLI-ABA, 1976
- Profiles in Privacy: Airport Travelers, Drug Enforcement Agents and Detector Dogs (Co-Author), 3 Criminal Law Review 35, Clark Boardman & Co., 1981
- Champion Profile (Featured Criminal Defense Attorney), 16 The Champion 51, NACDL, July, 1992
- Plain Nonsense: Misrepresentations and Omissions in [Peter] Carlisle's and [Mark] Bennett's Article, Plain Error? (Co-Author), 2 Hawaii Bar Journal 32, Dec., 1998
- The Hawaii Supreme Court's Criminal Law Decisions 1997-1998: Fair Use of the Doctrine of Plain Error?, II Hawaii Bar Journal 49 (No. 13), 1998
Bar Admissions
- Hawaii
- California
- New York
- U.S. District Court District of Hawaii
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- Hawaii Public Defender Advocacy Institute, 1993 - Present
- Committee on Implementation of the Federal Criminal Justice Act Plan for the District of Hawaii, 1980 (Coordinator)
- California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, 1978 - Present (Member)
- Committee to Select Federal Public Defender for District of Hawaii, 1981 - 1983, 1994
- American Inns of Court IV, Hawaii, 1982 - Present (Master of the Bench)
- Hawaii Supreme Court, Judicial Council of Hawaii Committee on Penal Code Revision and Reform, 1983 - 1985 (Member)
- Hawaii State Judicial Conference, 1986 - 2002 (Member)
- Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Rules of Penal Procedure and Circuit Court Criminal Rules, 1984 - Present (Member)
- Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Pattern Criminal Jury Instructions, 1993 - 1996 (Member)
- Hawaii State Bar Association (Member)
- The State Bar of California (Member)
- American Judicature Society (Member)
- National Legal Aid and Defender Association (Member)
- National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member)
- Hawaii Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Member)
Attorney Details
| Full Name | Brook Hart |
| Firm | Law Offices of Brook Hart |
| Address | Honolulu, HI, Melim Building, 333 Queen Street, Suite 610, Honolulu, HI |
| Phone | 808-526-0811 |
| Phone | 808-531-2677 |
| Website | www.hart-law.net |
| New Clients | ✓ Currently accepting |