Bar News - April 21, 2006
New Hampshire Has Strong Showing at Equal Justice Conference
By: Susan Noon
Over 850 people from across the nation, representing all segments of the legal profession concerned with improving and expanding access to civil justice to those in need, attended the Equal Justice Conference in Philadelphia March 30-April 1, co-sponsored by the ABA’s Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association. More than 85 programs covering a broad range of substantive law, technology, program management, delivery innovation, funding and related issues were presented.
Keynote speakers at the conference included Judge Theodore A. McKee, appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit by President Clinton, Michael S. Greco, president of the American Bar Association, and Congressman Chaka Fattah, currently serving his sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. The conference theme of “commitment, service and empowerment” was epitomized in Judge McKee’s quotation from Robert F. Kennedy, “Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope…which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”
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| Five of the nine attendees from New Hampshire at the Equal Justice Conference strike a pose before dashing off to workshops. Left to right: John Norton, John Tobin, Ginny Martin, Richard Uchida and Susan Noon. |
Nine representatives of the legal community in New Hampshire participated in the conference, including Richard Uchida, president of the NH Bar Association, John Tobin of NH Legal Assistance, Virginia Martin of the NH Bar Association, Brigette Siff Holmes of Franklin Pierce Law Center, John Norton from the NH Bar Association, Tom Fredenberg from the Legal Advice and Referral Center, Jon Ross from Wiggin & Nourie, P.A., Susan Noon from the NH Bar Foundation, and Steve Scudder, Committee Counsel, ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service, a member of the New Hampshire Bar, board member of the NH Bar Foundation, and a key conference planner for this event.
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