Patti Blanchette Is Certified as Marital Mediator

Attorney Patti Blanchette of Portsmouth has been qualified by the New Hampshire Marital Mediation Board to serve as a Certified Marital Mediator. The designation follows an intense training program, as well as a working internship with a senior Certified Marital Mediator.  Blanchette, a well-known family law attorney, and former president of both the New Hampshire and New England Bar Associations, has been a member of the NH Bar since 1981. The marital mediator designation allows Blanchette’s firm to expand its services to couples wanting to end their marriages privately and without litigation.

Megan Neal Elected to Youth Ballet Board

Megan C. Neal, an attorney with Devine Millimet in Manchester, NH, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Southern New Hampshire Youth Ballet, Inc., which serves as a training ground for local youths and pre-professional students, providing them with intensive training, individual coaching and performance opportunities. Neal is also involved in the Explorer Post program: she teaches high school students how to complete certain tasks in the practice of law, such as client interviews, legal research, interrogatories and depositions, as a means of helping them choose a profession.  Neal has been a member of the NH Bar since 2005.

Christopher Wyskiel Joins United Way Board

The United Way of the Greater Seacoast has chosen Christopher Wyskiel to be one of five new members on its Board of Directors.  By strategic grant-making, public education and other collaborative efforts throughout the Seacoast region, Wyskiel will help lead the United Way in promoting self-sufficient citizens, health and wellness, and strong and safe communities.

Wyskiel is an attorney with Wyskiel, Boc, Tillinghast & Bolduc in Dover, NH and has been a member of the NH Bar since 1980. 

Merrimack Valley Planning Elects Robert Lavoie

Robert Lavoie, Devine Millimet in Andover, Mass., has been elected chair of the Merrimack Valley Planning Commission.  As chair, he will head the commission’s professional planning services to promote the sound, coordinated growth and development of the Merrimack Valley region.  Attorney Lavoie is also a councilor for the Town of Amesbury, Mass. and serves on the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission, which provides continuity to the several organizations that supply access to civil justice for low-income people within the state.  He is a member of both the Mass. Bar Association (1979) and the NH Bar Association (1987).

Graham J. Chynoweth Featured in NH Business Review

Graham J. Chynoweth, an attorney with Sheehan Phinney Bass + Green in Manchester, was featured in the NH Business Review of March 17-30 in an article describing the move by younger people to the center of the state’s largest city.  Chynoweth is one of a number of young professionals who have migrated to Manchester’s downtown area to live and work.  In fact, Chynoweth can see his condo from his office window.  He can walk to work and likes having so much to do that is fun and interesting within a five-block radius of his home.  Chynoweth has been a member of the NH Bar since 2004.