Lenora Lee
- Faculty Specialist
- Administrative Director of University of Hawai`i Elder Law
- Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Hawai`i School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene
Degrees
- BA Pomona College 1962
- MA University of Hawai'i 1965
- AS Kapi`olani Community College 1978
- MBA Chaminade University 1991
- PhD University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2009
Biography
Lenora H. Lee, PhD is a faculty specialist at the William S. Richardson School of Law, the administrative director of the University of Hawai`i Elder Law Program and a clinical assistant professor at the School of Nursing and Dental Hygiene.
In 1991 she, along with Professor James H. Pietsch, helped conceptualize and create the University of Hawai`i Elder Law Program (UHELP). UHELP combines a law practice with a law school curriculum and an elder law clinic that provides students with experiential opportunities in serving socially and economically needy older persons, veterans and caregivers. UHELP operates throughout the calendar year and provides basic legal assistance, advice, information and referrals.
Dr. Lee helps administer the UHELP program’s budget, personnel, and compliance requirements while providing direct legal services to clients by doing intake, conducting interviews, drafting legal documents and performing other law-related jobs under the supervision of a licensed attorney. Along with many other UHELP law events for our island community. She is instrumental in organizing the traditional annual “ ‘Nite’ of the Living Will,” an event where the community is invited to learn about and execute advance directives for health care documents.
Among other awards, she is the recipient of the Hawai`i State Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Liberty Bell Award for her contributions to the community. At the law school and school of nursing Professor Lee co-teaches the Health Law: Bioethics and Elder Law Clinic courses. She also teaches an undergraduate course, Gerontology, Health Care and Law.
Her publications include the following materials.
- 2020 Deciding What Matters—and What to Do, A Legal Handbook for Hawaii’s Caregivers, Families and Older Persons, Hawaii Justice Foundation, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2017 Chances Are: A Caregiver’s Legal Planner, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2016 Deciding What’s Next and Trying to Remember, A Legal Handbook for Hawai`i’s Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2014 Kokua Packet Legal Planning Guide, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2014 Deciding What’s Next and Who in the World Cares? A Legal Handbook for Hawai`i’s Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2011 Deciding What’s Next? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, All Counties of Hawai`i edition, co-author with James H. Pietsch ScholarSpace
- 2007, 2009, Deciding Who Cares? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, All Counties of Hawai`i edition, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 2003, 2004, 2005 Deciding What If? A Legal Handbook for Older Persons, Families and Caregivers, co-author with James H. Pietsch P ScholarSpace
- 2009 A Good Death, The Politics of Physician Assisted Suicide in Hawai‘i, PhD dissertation ScholarSpace
- 1999 The Elder Law Hawai`i Handbook, UH Press, co-author with James H. Pietsch
- 1991-1998 The Akamai Kupuna, co-author with James H. Pietsch, five editions
- 1994 Law of the Splintered Paddle, Kanawai Mamalahoe, editor ScholarSpace
