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Bar News - July 25, 2003 News Digest Bar Soccer League Open to Family Members The Granite Gavel Soccer League has revised the format of play for its summer season. The league is now open to families of Bar members, as well as Bar members. Players attending the first game on July 6 unanimously decided to include family members. The following week’s game saw almost evenly divided numbers of lawyers and family members matching skills on the Singer Park pitch. Although each side had a mix of player ages and abilities, the game was fast and exciting. The Bar kids never let up on the grown-ups. Not only did they have an endless supply of oxygen and energy, but they were also free with their advice. One waggish son turned to his father and said "Dad, you would have gotten that goal if you used your LEFT foot." It was a day for kids to pay back all of the generous advice that they have received from their soccer moms and dads! Bar members of all ages and their families are encouraged to come and join the fun. The minimum age is 12 years old, provided that the younger players can keep up. This is a co-ed recreation league, committed to fostering collegiality among members of the Bar. The league also plans to have a full-sided match on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2003. That date coincides with the Nashua Bar Summer Outing, and the match is planned as part of the festivities. Nashua Bar President and Innocent Criminal Peter Goldsmith has extended a welcome to all participants to come to the Nashua Country Club for a swim and refreshments after the match. The league will continue to hold games at 9:00 on Sunday mornings through Aug. 3. The games are played at Singer Park in Manchester. The League thanks Manchester Downtown Visions, LLC, for graciously donating the use of the field at Singer Park, which normally costs $800 per event. The league does have to maintain insurance for this use, and a small fee is charged for that purpose. All interested players are encouraged to call Jamie McNamee at 883-8300 or e-mail him at Jamie@jmlegal.com. Fulbright Law Scholar Opportunities The Fulbright Scholar Program is offering a number of lecturing, research and lecturing/research awards in law for the 2004-2005 academic year. Awards for both faculty and professionals range from two months to an academic year. While many awards specify project and host institution, there are a 153 open "All Disciplines" awards that allow candidates to propose their own projects and determine their host institution affiliations. Foreign language skills are needed in some countries, but most Fulbright lecturing assignments are in English. The application deadline for 2004-2005 awards is August 1. For information, visit www.cies.org, e-mail apprequest@cies.iie.org, phone 202- 686-7877, or write Lawyers Make "Power 2003" List The Web site Politics NH has issued its bipartisan list of non-elected "insiders" on its Power 2003 list, published in late May. Elected officials and others in public office are excluded from the list, which then tends to be heavy with lobbyists and media types. Bar members appearing on this year’s list (out of a total of 30) were: longtime Republican activist and lobbyist Tom Rath; Judy Reardon and Rich Sigel, legal counsel and chief of staff, respectively, for former Gov. Jeanne Shaheen; lobbyists Don Pfundstein and Chris Gallagher; Kathy Sullivan, Democratic state chair; Terry Shumaker, new executive director of the NH National Educational Association; and Kevin Dugan, of the NH Trial Lawyers Association. NH Joins Suit Against EPA New Hampshire has joined nine other eastern states in filing a lawsuit challenging new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations that would exempt thousands of industrial air pollution sources – including upwind coal fired power-plants – from the key "New Source Review" provision of the federal Clean Air Act. The New Source Review regulations require power plants and other large industrial facilities to add modern air pollution controls to smokestacks when the facilities are upgraded or modified. Over the past several years, New Hampshire has joined other states, environmental groups and even the EPA in bringing suit against dozens of old coal-fired power plants and other industrial sources for violating New Source Review requirements. The NH Attorney General’s Office and DES officials say they are now concerned that the new EPA regulations softening the New Source Review rules will have a negative impact on New Hampshire’s air quality and economy, as prevailing winds form the Midwest carry industrial air pollution east. The states that filed suit with NH on Dec. 31 are New York, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Vermont. Since the filing, other states have also come out in opposition to the changes. For more information on the New Source Review litigation and its effect on New Hampshire, contact Senior Assistant Attorney General Maureen D. Smith at (603) 261-3679. — Environmental News contributed to this item. ABA Lawyer Survey Available The American Bar Association has released its 2003 ABA National Lawyer Population Survey, which provides numerous resources for research and statistics about lawyers and the legal profession. The resources have been organized into a number of categories. The survey can be found at www.abanet.org/marketresearch/resource.html.
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