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Bar News - June 17, 2005 Bar's Annual Awards Honor Service, Professionalism Three prominent Bar members will be honored at the 2005 NHBA Annual Meeting (their names were announced in the June 3 Bar News). The awards will be presented at the Annual Meeting dinner at the Balsams on Friday, June 24.
Goffstown District Court Judge Paul H. Lawrence will receive the Justice William A. Grimes Award for Judicial Professionalism. He is active on a national level with the Coalition for Juvenile Justice, of which he is chair-elect and recently served as chair of the Board of Editors for its most recent annual report, which examined detention reform. He is the principal author of the New Hampshire Detention Assessment Screening Instrument, which judges use as a guideline to determine which juveniles should be detained and presently co-chairs the Juvenile Detention Alternatives Project in New Hampshire. In addition, he serves on many other advisory groups or committees examining juvenile issues. Appointed to the court in 1988, Judge Lawrence is known for "exemplary and compassionate handling of juvenile cases," as one nominator wrote. He clearly fits the award nomination criteria of a judge who has the attributes of "learning and experience in the laws, of exemplary morals, great patience, calmness, coolness and attention" – qualities of an exemplary judge as cited by John Adams in 1776.
He is being honored for his extensive work in safeguarding the public interest and enhancing the management of charitable institutions, including his recent work serving as co-chairof the "Excellence in Governance" Project to spread knowledge and awareness of best practices and ethics for New Hampshire charities. He also helped create the Endowment for Health (from the sale of Blue Cross Blue Shield), Healthy New Hampshire Foundation (from the sale of Matthew Thornton HMO), and the Gale Foundation (from the sale of the Mary Gale Home), with a combined value of approximately $100 million. DeLucia has also been involved with producing, or been the chair of the Editorial Board for, the New Hampshire Bar Journal for most of the past decade, providing ongoing guidance for the publication (which won a national "Luminary" award as a bar publication in 1997) and in serving as issue editor on several occasions. DeLucia is active on a national level with the National Association of Attorneys General and with other professional associations, including the ABA. He also recently served as president of the National Fulbright Association. |
Arpiar Saunders, of Shaheen & Gordon, has been selected as the 2005 recipient of the E. Donald Dufresne Award for Outstanding Professionalism, named in honor of the late trial attorney from the Devine Millimet firm. Starting when he was a professor at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Saunders had been involved inchallenges to the state’s system of funding local schools since its inception more than a decade ago, and he is a long-time volunteer with the NH Civil Liberties Union. He has been plaintiffs’ counsel in several successful class actions involving the provision of facilities for those with mental and developmental disabilities in state operated institutions. In his own community, he has been chair and a long time member of the Hopkinton School Board, and has served on a number of Bar Association and court committees.
Michael S. DeLucia, Senior Assistant Attorney General and the Director of Charitable Trusts at the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office, will receive the NHBA Distinguished Service to the Profession Award. |
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