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KK: - -Your homework was due <br />ASHIDA: - -I still maintain that. <br />KK: You and Brian deLima were destined to become—it was in the stars for <br />you to become attorneys. And I must say you must be doing a good job. <br />But I read it over, and I've got to say that, I don't know, you guys —you <br />did a thorough job of explaining your position. But one thing I may ask <br />is, what doesI go along with your plea, but what about changing the <br />law? Changing that section of the Ethics Code to give you guys some <br />leeway? I just—it might be a rhetorical question, but it came to my <br />mind. I can see you guys work overtime and you haveI have a note <br />here, something that you mentioned, too —isn't being a corp counsel, <br />doing pro Bono work, per se anyway? What you mentioned, private <br />attorneys can charge by the hour. So, couldn't the law be changed to <br />take into account what you do or don't do? <br />CHAIR: Which law are you referring to, the Code of Ethics, or the <br />KK: - -the County Code <br />CHAIR: - -Rule 6? <br />KK: I'm just using this as food for thought. <br />ASHIDA: To specifically allow pro Bono or de minimis use for pro Bono <br />purposes? <br />KK: No, the use of County—or you get into a sticky situation. <br />ASHIDA: Yeah, that would require Council action, which is sticky in and of itself. <br />And then the issue, you kind of, admittedly, I think then you go down <br />you start to get on the slippery slope, and you start saying okay, now <br />you can do this— <br />CHAIR: - -Corp Counsel can do this, what about Finance? <br />ASHIDA: I think that maybe on this one, Mr. Kawahara, just having thought about <br />it right now, because you've asked the question, maybe a case -by -case <br />evaluation, given the unique circumstances of every, of that situation, <br />might be more appropriate. <br />11 <br />