Hawaii Bar Reciprocity

Hawaii does not offer traditional admission on motion or general bar reciprocity. Full admission ordinarily requires satisfying the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court Rules governing admission and passing the Hawaiʻi Bar Examination (see Bar Application and RSCH Rule 1).

Limited without-examination pathways exist for defined categories (for example, military judge advocates, University of Hawaiʻi law faculty, certain civil legal services attorneys, and military spouses under the applicable RSCH Rule 1 subsections). Those pathways are not general reciprocity and have their own eligibility rules.

Official Sources

Hawaiʻi State Judiciary bar admissions materials: courts.state.hi.us/legal_references/bar_application.