Bar News - September 9, 2005
Lawyers in the Community
|
Bonnie J. Boulanger has been appointed to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) Patient Affairs Committee as the Region 1 Representative. UNOS is a non-profit, scientific and educational organization that administers the nation’s only Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN). The Patient Affairs Committee advises the UNOS Board of Directors regarding policy effects on patients and donors, and advocates for patients and their families.
Boulanger is an attorney with the Salem law firm of Hatem & Donovan, P.C. and has been a member of the NH Bar since 2001. |
Bonnie J. Boulanger |
|
Robert H. Miller |
Robert H. Miller a partner with the law firm of Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green, has been invited to join the faculty of the 4th Annual Legal Fiction Writing for Lawyers Conference hosted by SEAK, Inc. in Falmouth, MA in September. Miller is the author of the best-selling law school preparatory book Law School Confidential, as well as the co-author of Business School Confidential and Medical School Confidential (Spring 2006). He will lead a panel on Non-Fiction Writing for Lawyers. Attorney Miller has been a member of the NH Bar since 1998. |
|
Ellen M. Joseph of Merrimack, NH, an attorney with Wiggin & Nourie in Manchester, has become a Fellow in the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers (AAML). The purpose of the AAML is to encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matrimonial law. Admission is by invitation only. Only two other New Hampshire marital attorneys are AAML Fellows: L. Jonathan Ross of Wiggin & Nourie, P.A, and Attorney Honey Hastings of Amherst.
Attorney Joseph has been a member of the NH Bar since 1992. She is also is a court-appointed mediator and a member of the Board of Bar Examiners. |
Ellen M. Joseph
|
|
Robert E. Raiche Sr.
|
Robert E. Raiche, Sr., of the Manchester law firm Nixon, Raiche, Manning, Vogelman and Leach, P.A., and a member of the NH Bar since 1980, was recently awarded the Franco American of the Year Award. The Franco American Center and the New Hampshire Franco American Council recognized Raiche because of his dedication and hard work with the Franco American community. He was honored with proclamations from Senator Judd Gregg, Senator John Sununu, Governor John Lynch and the Quebec Council.
Mayor Robert Baines read a proclamation from the city of Manchester declaring the day “Robert E. Raiche Day” and presented Attorney Raiche with a key to the city. |
|
Dana Bisbee, partner-in-charge at the Portsmouth office of Pierce Atwood LLP, has been named vice chair of the Environmental Affairs Committee for the Business & Industry Association (BIA), New Hampshire’s leading trade association, which advocates for the interests of businesses in the state.
Before joining Pierce Atwood LLP in 2003, Mr. Bisbee was the Assistant Commissioner of the NH Department of Environmental Services (DES) for seven years; during his last 18 months with DES, he was Acting Commissioner. He also served in the New Hampshire Attorney General’s office for 14 years, where, among other positions, he was Chief of the Environmental Protection Bureau and later the state’s Deputy Attorney General. He has been a member of the NH Bar since 1981. |
Dana Bisbee |
|
Matthew B. Cox |
Matthew B. Cox, of the law firm Burns, Bryant, Cox, Rockefeller & Durkin in Dover, has been named president of the NH Trial Lawyers Association. He will continue the Association’s work to preserve the rights of ordinary citizens to have access to the courts. Attorney Cox has been a NH Bar member since 1993. |
|
