In Re the Unauthorized Practice of Law of Ellis

As one of the very few and unique exceptions to the general rule that one not licensed to practice law before this Court is absolutely forbidden to engage in legal practice within this State, we held in In Re Ellis, 53 Haw. 23, 31, 487 P.2d 286, 291 (1971), cert. den., 405 U.S. 1075 (1972), that Mr. William S. Ellis, Jr., as trustee for the creditors and stockholders of Kula Development Corporation, a dissolved Hawaii corporation, might continue to render services of a legal nature to the dissolved corporation, providing that a determination of imperative financial necessity therefor be…