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Bar News - June 4, 2004 Awards Presented at Annual Meeting THE RECIPIENTS OF the President’s Awards will be honored at the Annual Meeting Banquet on Saturday, June 26 at the Wentworth-by-the-Sea Country Club. Also on the agenda that evening will be the transfer of the President’s gavel from NHBA President Russell Hilliard to President-Elect James Gleason. The following are the profiles of Judge John Maher, Cathy Green, and Edward Adamsky. Michael Holmes, recipient of the Distinguished Service to the Public and Katherine Stearns, Vickie Bunnell Award Winner, will be profiled in the June 18 issue. Judge John R. Maher—Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism  Judge Maher is known for his compassion and commitment to improvements in the judiciary, in New Hampshire and nationally. He has served on the Probate Court since 1983, and full-time as administrative judge since 1990. He also served temporarily as supervisory judge for the Rockingham County Family Division, and frequently hears cases there. The judge has been very active on a number of court committees. Since 1990, he has been a member of the National College of Probate Judges and served as its president in 2003. He is credited with many streamlining improvements in the probate process during his tenure. Maher also was the founder and continues to play a leading role in the Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers (LCL) group, which meets monthly, providing confidential support to Bar members and judges working with substance abuse issues. In 1998, Maher along with his wife Skye made a major contribution to the NH Bar Foundation to create the Hon. William F. Batchelder Fund for Legal Services, the first named endowed fund of the NHBF. Last year, he arranged to sacrifice some probate court space in the Rockingham County courthouse to create the Gerald F. Giles Lawyers’ Conference Room. This space allows lawyers to congregate while waiting for their cases to be reached, and was instituted to promote civility in the bar. Maher has been a hospice volunteer since 1990 and has been active in a variety of civic and arts organizations before and after his appointment to the bench. Recently, the judge has been a supporter of a Suffolk University Law School Alumni Association initiative to create a law-school loan forgiveness program for its graduates who work in lower-paid public sector law positions. Cathy J. Green—E. Donald Dufresne Award for Professionalism  Green is a busy trial attorney who has always made time to contribute to the betterment of her profession. She has had many roles on Bar Association and court committees, including the NHBA’s Committee on Cooperation With the Courts, the Standing Committee on Professional ism, the Interbranch Criminal and Juvenile Justice Council, and the US District Court Advisory Committee. She played a leading role in the development of the NH Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, of which she is currently treasurer. She is a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Society of Barristers, and is rated as "AV" in the Martindale-Hubbell Directory. She recently was honored as the 2001 recipient of the Marilla M. Ricker Achievement Award from the NH Women’s Bar Association and was twice named by Business NH Magazine as one of the four leading criminal defense attorneys in the state. Green moved to New Hampshire in the mid-1970s and earned her law degree from the Franklin Pierce Law Center in 1977. While in law school, she interned for the late Judge Hugh Bownes and worked as an investigator for the Hillsborough County Public Defender Program and then was hired as one of three public defenders in the state. After three years, she entered private practice, but continues to serve on the Board of Directors of the NH Public Defender Program. Green said her efforts on committees and professional associations are a welcome break from the courtroom. What makes a stressful trial practice endurable, rewarding -and often enjoyable- are the relationships that a lawyer develops with colleagues, opponents, judges, court system personnel and clients," said Green. " I am delighted and extremely honored to be recognized by the Bar Association for this important award." Edward H. Adamsky - Distinguished Service to the Profession  Adamsky, a solo practitioner who maintains offices in Pelham and in Tyngsboro, Mass., was an energetic and innovative chair of the Elder Law Section for three years—a period of growth in activity and membership for the section, one of the Bar’s largest. In nominating Adamsky, current Elder Law Section Chair Ann N. Butenhof said, "This section is now considered one of the most active sections of the Bar, which can be witnessed not only by attendance at our meetings, but by the constant use of our section’s listserv—another tool created during Ed’s tenure." Adamsky is also a stalwart volunteer of the Pro Bono Program, especially the DOVE Project. In 1999, Adamsky was honored as Attorney of the Year by the Greater Salem Council Against Family Violence. Admitted in 1986, Adamsky’s practice centers on bankruptcy, probate, and estate planning and other financial issues.
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