LAW 293P is a capstone cooperative education course involving an employer and the college that integrates classroom learning with supervised practical experiences related to a paralegal career. This course provides opportunities that allow the student to apply and reinforce paralegal skills learned in the Legal Education courses in an actual legal office environment. Students will also have the opportunity to analyze their general technical work skills as well as the business of law as learned in their courses. Job research skills are also emphasized.
My name is Kimberly Koide Iwao, and I was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. I graduated from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a Bachelor of Education in Secondary Education with an emphasis in English. I thereafter obtained my Juris Doctorate degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law. I was a Partner at the law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, LLLP, served as in-house counsel and business executive at two of Hawaiʻi’s leading companies, and currently operate my own law practice, in which I specialize in trusts and estates and employment law. I am a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hawai`i Richardson School of Law, was recognized as a Pacific Business News “Forty Under 40” and “Women Who Mean Business,” am a graduate of the Pacific Century Fellow Program and was named a Hawaii Super Lawyer. I am also currently a PhD student in the Learning Design and Technology Program at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
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