Bar News - August 12, 2005
Lawyers in the Community
| David L. Nixon, president of Nixon, Raiche, Manning, Vogelman & Leach in Manchester, was recently honored by the Hillsborough County Law Enforcement Association (HCLEA) for 40 years of “tireless service” to the Association. The HCLEA is dedicated to improving law enforcement skills, professionalism and cooperation.
Lt. Mark Myrdek of the NH State Police Professional Standards Unit presented Attorney Nixon with a beautiful granite clock. Nixon, a former president of the New England Bar Association, the NH Bar Association and the Manchester Bar Association, has served HCLEA as its scholarship chairman since 1963. He has been a member of the NH Bar Association since 1958. |
Attorney David L. Nixon and Lt. Mark Myrdek |
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John E. Durkin, a partner at the law firm of Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin in Dover, has been elected to the board of directors of the Avis Goodwin Community Healthcare Center. The Center provides comprehensive, quality healthcare in the community, regardless of ability to pay. Mr. Durkin has been a member of the Bar since 1994 and is presently the Strafford County representative on the NHBA Board of Governors. |
| Louis D. DeMato, an attorney with Wiggin & Nourie in Manchester, completed the nine-month, 2005 Leadership Greater Manchester program in June. Directed by the Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Greater Manchester is designed to recognize and nurture existing leadership talents from diverse sectors of the local community. Attorney DeMato has been a member of the NH Bar Association since 2004. |
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As his last official act as president of the 2004-2005 Civil Justice Foundation, David M. Gottesman, a founder and partner of Gottesman & Hollis in Nashua, presented 2004 presidential candidate John Edwards with the Foundation’s Community Champion Award. The event took place at the national convention of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). The Civil Justice Foundation is composed of trial lawyers and consumer advocates dedicated to awarding grants to grassroots consumer advocacy groups. |
Martin P. Honigberg of Sulloway & Hollis in Concord has been confirmed to the Ballot Law Commission by the state’s Executive Council. Honigberg has been a member of the NH Bar Association since 1995. Joseph L. Dickinson, Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, Hamilton R. Krans, Jr., Krans & Krans in Dover, and Christopher T. Regan, Bamford Dedopolous & Regan in Durham, have all been confirmed to the Compensation Appeals Board. Dickinson and Regan have been members of the NH Bar since 1982 and Krans since 1969.
The Executive Council also confirmed David Woodbury of New Boston and a member of the NH Bar since 1969, to the Railroad Appeals Board and Stephen J. Judge of Wadleigh Starr & Peters in Manchester and a member of the Bar since 1983, to the Right-to-Know Oversight Commission.
| Gov. John Lynch nominated Lee C. Nyquist of Devine & Nyquist in Manchester and a Bar member since1978, to the Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation. |
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Another nomination by Gov. John Lynch was Eric G. Falkenham of Devine Millimet & Branch in Manchester and a member of the Bar since 1985, to the Transportation Appeals Board. |
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