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WILLIAM A. HARRISON

William A. Harrison

Trial Experience

  • Federal criminal defense experience concentrating on drug offenses, white-collar and fraud offenses, crimes of violence, federal gun charges, computer crimes, grand jury representation, corporate and business defense, money laundering, and racketeering.

  • State criminal defense experience concentrating on murder, vehicular homicides, drug offenses, sex crimes, white-collar and fraud offenses, crimes of violence, and property crimes.

  • Military criminal defense experience concentrating on drug offenses, crimes of violence, sex crimes, theft, and fraud crimes.

  • Constitutional law background with a focus on constitutional amendments and rights as a defense to various criminal charges.

Credentials

Licensed since:

  • 1981 Hawaii

  • 1981 U.S. District Court District of Hawaii

  • 1982 New Jersey

  • 1982 U.S. District Court District of New Jersey

  • 1982 U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit

  • 1985 U.S. Supreme Court

  • 1993 U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit

Degree Accreditation:

Educational Honors:

  • 1980 Law Review: the University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaii

Awards and Accolades

Professional Recognitions

State and Federal Government Task Forces, Commissions, and Committees

  • Chair: Judicial Selection Commission, State of Hawaii 1994 – 1995

  • Lawyer select: State Judicial Conference 1991 – 1994

  • Litigation committee: ACLU of Hawaii 2002 to 2019

  • Member: Lt. Governor’s Hawaii Drug Control Strategy Task Force, 2004 to present

  • Member: Task Force on Charging Procedures, Twenty-First Legislature 2003

  • Member: Hawaii Supreme Court Permanent Committee on Rules of Penal Procedure and Circuit Court Criminal Rules

  • Member: Act 59 Task Force to Consider Proposals to Revise Hawaii’s Community Notification or “Megan’s Law” 2003 – 2004

  • Attendee: United States Courts Judicial Conference, 2004 – 2005, 2014.

Television Appearances

  • Legal Television Commentator: Hawaii News Now, KHNL News; KHON News; KITV Channel 4

  • KHON TV – What’s the Law

Pro Bono Activities

  • Delegate: Hawaii Democratic Party State Convention 1988 – 2008

  • Former Legal Redress Officer: NAACP Hawaii Chapter

  • Interscholastic League of Honolulu, Coach of the Year: Wrestling 1990 – 1991

  • Litigation Committee Member: ACLU of Hawaii

  • Past President and Founding Member: Afro-American Lawyers Association

  • President of the Board: Domestic Violence Clearinghouse and Legal Hotline 1991 – 1992

  • President, Christian Legal Society, Hawaii Chapter

Professional Associations and Memberships

Leadership Positions

  • Board of Governors: The Association of Plaintiffs Lawyers of Hawaii 1989 – 1990

  • Bencher: American Inns of Court IV, Hawaii

  • Executive Committee: International Legal Fraternity of Phi Delta Phi – Richardson Inn 1979 – 1981

Professional Memberships

  • Hawaii State Bar Association 1981 to present

  • New Jersey State Bar Association 1982 to - 2020

  • Hawaii Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers

  • National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (“NACDL”), Life member

  • The Association of Trial Lawyers of America

  • The Association of Plaintiffs Lawyers of Hawaii 1989 – 1990

  • American Bar Association

  • American Society of Law and Medicine

  • Christian Legal Society

Community Associations and Memberships

Lecturing Activities

  • Adjunct professor: “Hawaii Innocence Project,” the University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law

  • Faculty member: National Institute of Trial Advocates (“NITA”)

  • Faculty Member, Department of Land & Natural Resources (“DLNR”) Police Academy

  • Faculty member: National Business Institute Legal Seminars

  • Lecturer: Trial Advocacy Program, Public Defender State of Hawaii

  • Peoples Law School: American Trial Lawyers Association

Fraternities/Sororities

  • Phi Delta Phi

  • Christian Legal Society